Keywords: Hotel Dickey
Item 111852
Hotel Dickey, Fort Kent, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Acadian Archives Date: circa 1900 Location: Fort Kent Media: Photographic print; postcard
Item 111853
Military Square, Fort Kent, ca. 1908
Contributed by: Acadian Archives Date: circa 1908 Location: Fort Kent Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Summer Folk: The Postcard View
Vacationers, "rusticators," or tourists began flooding into Maine in the last quarter of the 19th century. Many arrived by train or steamer. Eventually, automobiles expanded and changed the tourist trade, and some vacationers bought their own "cottages."