Keywords: Tourist home
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
Item 32912
Assessor's Record, 518 Washington Avenue, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Tourist Accessories Inc. Use: Filling station
Exhibit
Home: The Longfellow House & the Emergence of Portland
The Wadsworth-Longfellow house is the oldest building on the Portland peninsula, the first historic site in Maine, a National Historic Landmark, home to three generations of Wadsworth and Longfellow family members -- including the boyhood home of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The history of the house and its inhabitants provide a unique view of the growth and changes of Portland -- as well as of the immediate surroundings of the home.
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."
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Scrapbook 1: 1885-1899, Katahdin Iron Works, Silver Lake Hotel
"… and the Silver Lake Hotel, which served both tourist interests and workers at the Iron Works. Even though the name of the company changed over the…"
Story
Langdon Burton and the Cold, Wet Tourists
by Phil Tedrick
A father and son have their vacation experience totally changed by an encounter with a fisherman
Story
What Maine Means to Me
by Nicolette B. Meister
How a friendship created a lifelong love of Maine.
