Fancy Victorian ladies enjoy the outdoors in a rugged Maine town

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Sept. 1900

Grace G. and Grace Parker row on Lake Megunticook.

Image: Camden Public Library

These snapshots are from the personal collection of Theresa Babb, the wife of the treasurer of the Knox Mill in Camden, Maine.

One of the most picturesque coastal villages in midcoast Maine, Camden emerged as a bustling town in the mid-1800s, with mills fed by the current of the Megunticook River and shipyards along the harbor producing up to a dozen ships annually

Toward the end of the 19th century, Camden became a summer leisure destination for wealthy families from as far away as Washington, D.C., and Chicago. These “summer people” built sprawling vacation homes around the town, which they called cottages. Read more...

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