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Historical Items

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Item 23399

Medicinal spring house, East Boothbay, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Boothbay Media: Photographic print

Item 25567

Mackerel Cove, Bailey Island, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Harpswell Media: Photographic print

Item 6590

Canoeing in Jefferson, ca. 1950

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1950 Location: Jefferson Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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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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Luxurious Leisure

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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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 Pages

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …next came the artists and rusticators.

"… start of Mount Desert Island’s influx of summer vacationers. Cole founded the Hudson River School, a famous movement of landscape and seascape…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - A Short History Of Performing Arts On Mount Desert Island

"… Desert has been a celebrated destination for vacationers and outdoor enthusiasts for well over a century."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment

"Most vacationers made at least one visit to the Wabanaki village to peruse and purchase handmade baskets and a host of other wares."

My Maine Stories

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Story

Carrabassett Village and the Red Stallion Inn circa 1960
by David Rollins

The creation of Carrabassett Village and the Red Stallion Inn at Sugarloaf USA