Keywords: Sandy beach
Item 6503
Popham Beach, Phippsburg, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1930 Location: Popham Beach Media: Photoprint
Item 12352
Beach at Sandy Cove, Cundy's Harbor, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1930 Location: Harpswell Media: Photograph, print
Item 85273
Moore property, E. Side Sandy Beach Road, Little Diamond Island, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Mary E. Moore Use: Summer Dwelling
Item 85274
Bachelder property, E. Side Sandy Beach Road, Little Diamond Island, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Eloise Bachelder Use: Summer Dwelling
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
These stories -- that stretch from 1999 back to 1759 -- take you from an amusement park to the halls of Congress. There are inventors, artists, showmen, a railway agent, a man whose civic endeavors helped shape Portland, a man devoted to the pursuit of peace and one known for his military exploits, Maine's first novelist, a woman who recorded everyday life in detail, and an Indian who survived a British attack.
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Welcome to Strong
"The 1790 census record lists “Sandy River, Middle Twp.” Soon it became known as Readstown, for the settlement proprietor, William Read."
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 3 of 3
"Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad station, Strong, ca. 1910 Today one can still hitch ride on the Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Railroad at…"
Story
The Point
by Norma K. Salway
In the summer, on the eastern shore of Songo, kids dove from a leaning tree
