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Articles 1 - 5 of 5
Full-Text Articles in History
Saving Schoodic: A Story Of Development, Lost Settlement, And Preservation, Alan K. Workman
Saving Schoodic: A Story Of Development, Lost Settlement, And Preservation, Alan K. Workman
Maine History
Remote, isolated, and nearly barren Schoodic Point, now the easternmost part of Acadia National Park, was long bypassed by early explorers and settlers. It might have seemed destined to remain deserted, a candidate for coastal parkland preservation in the twentieth century. But like such distant outposts as Vinalhaven, Swan’s, and Ironbound islands, Schoodic in the nineteenth century was overtaken by extensive land development, logging, and settlement by fishermen farmers. Eventually its proximity to Bar Harbor made it a target for vacation resort cottages. Yet Schoodic’s peninsular ecology and elements of its social circumstances helped it escape such development in favor …
A Cage For John Sawyer The Poor Of Otisfield, Maine, Jean F. Hankins
A Cage For John Sawyer The Poor Of Otisfield, Maine, Jean F. Hankins
Maine History
Each year from 1790 to the end of the Civil War the town’s people of Otisfield wrestled with the dilemma of town relief. Examining this issue from two perspectives - the town taxpayers and the town poor - Jean Hankins sheds light on the politics, the finances, the hardships, the family life, and the burdens of responsibility in Maine's nineteenth-century small towns.
"Skeeing" In Maine: The Early Years, 1870s To 1920s, E. John B. Allen
"Skeeing" In Maine: The Early Years, 1870s To 1920s, E. John B. Allen
Maine History
This article reviews the history of snow skiing in Maine and in the rest of the United States in the 19th century.
John Langdon’S Unusual Census Of ‘Mechanical Labor”: The 1820 Artisans Of Wiscasset, Jefferson, Alna, Edgecomb, And Whitefield, Maine, Richard M. Candee
John Langdon’S Unusual Census Of ‘Mechanical Labor”: The 1820 Artisans Of Wiscasset, Jefferson, Alna, Edgecomb, And Whitefield, Maine, Richard M. Candee
Maine History
The article discusses the unusual information provided by John Langdon in completing the 1820 United States Census of Manufacturers which provide fact about common artisans in five Lincoln County towns.
Bar Harbor: The Hotel Era, 1868-1880, Richard A. Savage
Bar Harbor: The Hotel Era, 1868-1880, Richard A. Savage
Maine History
This article is a review of the "hotel era" on Mount Desert Island, centered in Bar Harbor in the period 1868-1880.