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Keywords: Pleasure craft

Historical Items

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Item 27757

The Passing Sailboat, 1912

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1912 Media: Photographic print

Item 79345

Fisherman tending to his dory, Friendship, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Friendship Museum Date: circa 1910 Location: Friendship Media: Glass Negative

Item 31425

Granite Loading Wharf, Hallowell, ca. 1890

Contributed by: Hubbard Free Library Date: circa 1890 Location: Hallowell Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Designing Acadia

For one hundred years, Acadia National Park has captured the American imagination and stood as the most recognizable symbol of Maine’s important natural history and identity. This exhibit highlights Maine Memory content relating to Acadia and Mount Desert Island.

Exhibit

Wiscasset's Arctic Connection

Scientist, author and explorer Donald B. MacMillan established Wiscasset as his homeport for many of the voyages he made to the Arctic region starting in the early 1920s.

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."

Site Pages

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Site Page

Historic Hallowell - Transportation Challenge

"The site is now used for launching pleasure craft and recreation. The Hallowell Granite works had two large schooners named the Jeremiah T."

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"… a variety of shops and stores to serve the pleasures and needs of island visitors and the native population. At mid-island the F."