Keywords: Tourist communities
Item 74895
Triangle Tourist Home, Lubec, 1975, 1975
Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: 1975 Location: Lubec Media: Kodachrome slide
Item 70283
Triangle Tourist Home, Lubec, ca. 1979
Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1979 Location: Lubec Media: Photographic print
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
History in Motion: The Era of the Electric Railways
Street railways, whether horse-drawn or electric, required the building of trestles and tracks. The new form of transportation aided industry, workers, vacationers, and other travelers.
Site Page
Skowhegan Community History - Skowhegan: "A Place To Watch"
"… coast for trappers, loggers, factories, and now tourists and river-runners in increasing numbers. Early English and French explorers engaged in…"
Site Page
"Lubec Town Office Vital statistics, area businesses, tourist information and town facilities links available here."
Story
Princess Watahwaso
by Jason Pardilla (Penobscot)
A story about Lucy Nicolar Poolaw (1882-1869)
