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Historical Items

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Item 7584

Frank Swan's Summer Camp Ca. 1905

Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: circa 1905 Location: Madison Media: Photographic print

Item 98692

Summer cottages at Grimes Cove, Ocean Point, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Boothbay Region Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Boothbay; East Boothbay; Ocean Point Media: Glass Negative

Item 105898

Squirrel Island, Southport, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1910 Location: Southport Media: Glass Plate Negative

Tax Records

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Item 76995

37 Summer Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Stanislaus Dyro Use: Dwelling - Three Family

Item 87913

12 Summer Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Heirs of Thomas Fisher Use: Dwelling - Single Family & Store

Item 76984

16 Summer Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Bartley Crowley Use: Dwelling - Two family

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 116299

Theodore Bird house, Rockland, 1948-1949

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1948–1949 Location: Rockland Client: Theodore S. Bird Architect: John Howard Stevens and John Calvin Stevens II Architects

Item 109154

Joanne & Dick Warrens' summer house, Dedham, 1948

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1948 Location: Dedham Client: Dick Warren Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell

Item 109963

Stockly summer house, Vinalhaven, 1964

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1964 Location: Vinalhaven Clients: A. Holmes; Stockly Architect: Holmes A. Stockly; Stockly Associates

Online Exhibits

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Summer Camps

Maine is home to dozens of summer-long youth camps and untold numbers of day camps that take advantage of water, woods, and fresh air. While the children, counselors, and other staff come to Maine in the summer, the camps live on throughout the year and throughout the lives of many of the campers.

Exhibit

Great Cranberry Island's Preble House

The Preble House, built in 1827 on a hilltop over Preble Cove on Great Cranberry Island, was the home to several generations of Hadlock, Preble, and Spurling family members -- and featured in several books.

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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.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts

"… of Ryder’s Cove and Hewes Point, the Dark Harbor summer people valued a more natural, rugged summer experience, including walking on the stone…"

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Summer Pleasures

"Summer Pleasures Dale Stockbridge and Galen Turner, Swan's Island, ca. 1965Swan's Island Historical Society Playing at the beach, Swan's…"

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Summer Pleasures cont'd

"Summer Pleasures cont'd Seaside Hall in Atlantic village, Swan's Island, ca. 1925Swan's Island Historical Society Ice cream socials were also…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

In an Old, Abandoned Island House, I Found my Mentor and my Muse
by Robin Clifford Wood

An aspiring writer finds inspiration and a mentor from the past in an old island home.

Story

How Belfast was the Chicken Capital of the Northeast
by Ralph Chavis

My memories of spending time in Belfast as a child when my father worked in the chicken industry.

Story

A Story in a Stick
by Jim Moulton

A story about dowsing for a well in Bowdoin