Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rusticators on the Rise

… masquerade balls, musicales and lectures, yachting parties, horse shows, tennis tournaments, and an array of clubs which included swimming, canoe…

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

Champlain Club camp and yacht log, Mount Desert Island, 1880Item Contributed byMount Desert Island Historical Society They spent their days sailing…

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Islanders At Play

… Contributed bySwan's Island Educational Society Yachts club members and windjammer passengers arrive in Burnt Coat Harbor on the nights of the…

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts

First Tarratine Golf Club, Islesboro, ca. 1912Item Contributed byIslesboro Historical Society For more than a century, as the summer communities…

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 3 of 4

The local yacht club began in 1920 with Dr. Seth Milliken’s purchase of two Brutal Beasts for his children and their cousins.

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

Bath Iron Works and yachts, Bath, 1931Item Contributed byPatten Free Library By 1925, shipbuilding had all but stopped in Bath when BIW went into…

Historic Hallowell - Hurricanes Of 1954 - Stories and Timelines

Also, boats and the Kennebec Yacht Club were endangered. The public utilities were destroyed and repair crews worked throughout the night restoring…

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

… a wharf at the present site of the Kollegewidgwok Yacht Club. Next door, the White Granite Company had cutting sheds and a machine shop erected on…