Keywords: Tourist accommodations
Item 109068
Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1915 Location: Searsport Media: Glass Plate Negative
Item 71724
Glen Cove Motor Court, near Rockland and Camden, ca. 1938
Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1938 Location: Rockport Media: Linen texture postcard
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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."
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From the last decades of the nineteenth century through about the 1920s, vacationers were attracted to large resort hotels that promised a break from the noise, crowds, and pressures of an ever-urbanizing country.
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4
"… train, trolley and the automobile also brought tourists to Scarborough and a new industry that created jobs for residents."
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History
"… for the quick movement of timber south and tourists north. For the first time in western Maine’s history, rural communities had reliable…"
