Bangor Public Library Bangor Community: Digital Commons@bpl Books and Publications Special Collections 1928 Maine Invites You Maine Publicity Bureau Follow this and additional works at: https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs Recommended Citation Maine Publicity Bureau, "Maine Invites You" (1928). Books and Publications. 59. https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/59 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Collections at Bangor Community: Digital Commons@bpl. It has been accepted for inclusion in Books and Publications by an authorized administrator of Bangor Community: Digital Commons@bpl. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ' ..' ., •...,- •• M A I N E ~nd of cJmiling cJkies That you may know Maine better is the aim ]J of this book. It has been arranged and {edited under the following head i ngs : FOREWORD Northwestern Maine T he Rangeley Region-How to Reach the R angelcys-The K cn­ .-\. thumb-nail sketch of the geographic, physical and climatic nebago Country-the Hub of the R angeley Region-Down the characteristics of Maine. Lakes-the D ead RiYe r Region-Where Arnold Trod-Into the N orth Country. Central Maine THE MAINE SEACOAST M oosehead Lake and M ount Kineo-the K ennebec and Belgrade I\:ittcry to Cape Elizabeth and Portland Chain of Lakes-the Belgrade Region-the Upper K ennebec Country T he Yorks-Ogunquit-Old Orchard Beach-the Scarboro -Lake P arlin-Up J ac kman Way. Beaches. Eastern and Northern Maine T he G rand Lakes Country in ·w ashington County-N orthern Portland to Rockland and P enobscot Bay Aroostook Countv- T he Fish R iYer vVaters-Patten-C\orcross- P ortland and Casco Bay-the I slands of Casco Bay. Bowdoin :'\1ount K atahdin . College-Bath-where the K ennebec j oins the sea- Boothbay H ar- bor Region-P emaquid and M onhegan. Eastward from Bath. MAINE CAMPS P enobscot Bay to Fren chman's Bay Camps for Boys and Girls Bar H arbor and M ount Desert I sland. Camden and P enobscot Comnnmity Camps, " \Vhere You Rough it in Bay-the Bangor Gatewar-Mount Desert I sland and the Lafayette Comfort" N ational P ark. Camping on Your Own Motor Camping Eastward-Ho From Frenchman's Bay to Ma ine Forts and Points of Outstanding Grand Manan Historic Interest Around N arraguagus Bay-Machias Bay-Passamaquoddy Bay­ Cobscook Bay and E astport. MISCELLANEOUS Paradise of the Motorist \ Vinter Sports INLAND MAINE A Haven of Relief for Hay F ever Sufferers )[aine Industrially and AgricuJ.turally H er Lakes and Streams-H er F orests and l\fountains. \Vhere to Stay in )[aine Sout hwestern l\Iaine Other Booklets on Maine The Sebago Country-Round About Bridgton and H arrison­ The Two Center Pages of This Booklet-Outline Along the Saco Valley- Along the Androscoggin-the Oxford Map Qf the State of Maine, showing the location of Count;· Hills-the Poland Country. all Cities, Towns and Seacoast and Inland R esorts. TIDS BOOKLET WAS PRINTED IN MAINE, USING MAINE PAPER-FACTS --- --- --- ------ --- --------- M A I N E Invites you Maine invites you to enjoy the glories of her forests, the beauty of her thousands of lakes and hills, the music of her brooks, the clamor of her streams, the sweep of her great rivers, and the majesty of her rock-bound coast and sea-girt islands. Nowhere is scenery more varied and charming. Nowhere is summer more congenial. Nowhere dwells a more hospitable people. Maine extends a cordial invitation and assures you a friendly welcome whether you come for a week, for the summer or as a year around resident. Come by train, by boat, by motor. If by motor, you'll find well-marked motor-trails and highways on which sixty millions of dollars have been expended during the last ten years, and for whose upkeep and improvement the last legislature made available funds amounting to eighteen millions. You'll find Maine a state of great natural resources for the development of industry, a state with great areas of land of high fertility yielding potatoes, apples, peas and corn that set the world's standards, a state which after the roll of three centuries is still a land of promise and progress. The latch-string is out. Come this year and every year to Maine, land of happy, remembered vacations and smiling skies. MAINE DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION Publication, 1928 Inquire as to the new, speedy, comfortable transportation service from , a ll points to the State of Maine via rail or boat. ' Ask for these booklets and maps: "Opportunities in Maine"-(Information on M aine crops and agri­ culture)-"Farming Opportunities in M aine"-(List of Maine farms in attractive locations)-"Forest Trees of Maine"-"Maine by M otor"- "Maine Fishing"-M ap- "Maine Auto Routes"-Map- " Through Auto Routes"-"Whcrr to Stav in Maine"-Vacationland (lllustrated)-Gladly and freely supplied upon request to INFORMATION BUREAU Secretary of the State of Maine AUGUSTA, MAINE Page Tkree MAINE'S SMILING SKIES FOREWORD ~INE is at the extreme north-eastern corner of the United States; thrusts its elbow far.up into Canada and one of its towns J (} l (Perry, Me.) is exactly half-way between the North Pole and the equator. It has the loveliest rivers and lakes, streams and waterfalls, most mystical mountains and most glorious rugged seacoast in the world. It is hunting country-with vast for­ ests. Its summer air is like a baln1 of health and its autumn and springtime are paradisiacal. Its winters are ideal for winter sports. Maine has half the tidal coast line of the Atlantic. It stretches 2,486 miles. It has 1,300 wooded islands, one of them, Mount Desert, of 60,000 acres. There are 5,131 rivers and streams in Maine, big enough to be on the map. There arc 2,465 lakes. The stranger entering Maine sees everywhere, from every hill-top, the "sky-blue water." There are six great lake and river systems-Sebago and Saco; Androscoggin and Rangeley; Kennebec and Moosehead; Penobscot and Chesuncook waters; St. John and Allegash waters; Fish River and Aroostook waters. And besides these are many famous lake-regions of lesser size, but so great as to be famous were there not other giants-such regions for instance as The Grand Lake System in Washington County, the West Branch in Piscataquis County, the Belgrade Chain in Kennebec County, and the Songo-Bridgton Chain in Cumberland County. There are splendid water powers on all these waters. One-tenth of the entire 33,040 square miles of Maine is lake and pond and one-third of the state is mountainous. Its highest mountain is Katahdin, one mile high and very rugged. The average temperature of Maine is 43.6•. Only one-third of the state is below 800 ft. altitude. In many sections along the coast and in the interior Maine offers positive relief for hay-fever. It is the sanitarium of a world; it is a tavern of rest. Page Four THE MAINE SEA COAST A mile below York Village is York H arbor, one of the high Kittery to Cape Elizabeth class summer resorts of New England. T his is essentially a vil­ lage of substantial and beautiful summer homes which are largely HE traveler who enters Maine through its southernmost owned by their occupants, with a proper proportion of attractive ?5 point, crosses the Piscataqua R iver into the old town of rented cottages, first-class hotels and boarding houses ; all consti­ Kittery, opposite Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Kittery tuting one of th e distinctive and wealthy summer colonies of New like n1ost seacoast towns, has its distinctive histo rical in· England. At this point York River empties into the sea, and terests. Settled in 1622, incorporated in 1651, the first town to f orms a convenient and safe port of entry f or yachts, large and receive a charter from Massachusetts Bay Colony. H ere was built small, with coastwise ocean v iews; yet in a few minutes' time, by the R anger, first ship to fly the Stars and Stripes, commanded by canoe up river or by motor drives, one rnay be among the quiet Paul J ones, and manned almost wholly by men .from along the woods and fields of the country. Piscataqua shores. • At the Harbor the Short Sands beach, protected by two At Kittery Point stands the mansion of Sir William Pepperell, high headlands, affords ideal sea bathing. York Country Club, who led the New England troops in 1747 in the siege of Louisburg. located a mile up river, is an old established and one of the most The Kittery Navy Yard, an extensive modern government attractive eighteen-hole courses in N ew England-well bunkered plant, is well worth a visit. Among the famous ships here built and and every variety of hazard. T en tennis courts are maintained. equipped was the K earsarge, designed for the express purpose of The Club H ouse shares with the Reading R oom, and M en's Club, seeking out the Alabama, and launched in ninety days from the lay­ the social activities of the community. Along the shore, following ing of its keel. In 1905 the Russo-Japanese P eace Conference wa• the state highway east, and distant four miles is York Beach, an- YORK HARBOR held at the Navy Yard and here was signed the treaty concluding other large summer resort, combining hotel and cottage lif e. peace. Admiral Cervera and all the survivors of the naval battle of Upon the rocky headlands, or bluffs, one of them tipped by "The Santiago were quartered here as prisoners of war in the sum­ Nubble" and its lighthouse, the unbroken Atlantic beats ceaselessly.