Keywords: Impact of the automobile
Item 28464
Intersection of Washington and Centre Streets, Bath, ca. 1959, ca. 1959
Contributed by: Patten Free Library Date: circa 1959 Location: Bath Media: Color Slide Film, color transparency
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."
Exhibit
Home: The Longfellow House & the Emergence of Portland
The Wadsworth-Longfellow house is the oldest building on the Portland peninsula, the first historic site in Maine, a National Historic Landmark, home to three generations of Wadsworth and Longfellow family members -- including the boyhood home of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The history of the house and its inhabitants provide a unique view of the growth and changes of Portland -- as well as of the immediate surroundings of the home.
Site Page
Bath's Historic Downtown - Dreamland and Liberty
"Changing habits, the use of automobiles, and new technology killed these entertainment venues, once an important part of Bath's life."
Site Page
Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 2 of 4
"In the 1920s Fred Snow, a clam digger, found a better, more efficient way to can clams and founded Snow’s Canning Company."
Story
History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
