Keywords: seasonal visitors
Item 78874
The Rockaway Hotel, Bar Harbor, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Mount Desert Island Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Postcard
Item 79563
The Summit House Hotel in South Bristol Village, ca. 1910
Contributed by: South Bristol Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: South Bristol Media: Postcard
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A Portland newspaper wrote about an ice storm of January 28, 1886 saying, "The city of Portland was visited yesterday by the most inconvenient storm of the season."
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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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"-Albert L. Higgins, Bar Harbor Times, 20 June 1934 Rusticators were visitors who flocked to the island from cities, seeking relief from the noise…"
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