Keywords: St. Ignatius Street
Item 9916
St. Ignatius, Martyr, Church, Sanford, ca. 1895
Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Location: Sanford Media: Photographic print
Item 22958
St. Ignatius Parish, Sanford, 1904
Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: 1904 Location: Sanford Media: Glass Negative
Exhibit
Father John Bapst: Catholicism's Defender and Promoter
Father John Bapst, a Jesuit, knew little of America or Maine when he arrived in Old Town in 1853 from Switzerland. He built churches and defended Roman Catholics against Know-Nothing activists, who tarred and feathered the priest in Ellsworth in 1854.
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."
