Primary source · map
Map of Cushing Island
[DOC]DocumentedMMN #23341
Lot map: dotted outlines mark parcels already sold; the southern shore is reserved for the United States Government installation that became Fort Levett. This is the single most useful sheet for georeferencing the resort-era island.
Provenance
- Date
- ca. 1888
- Creator
- Ilsley & Cummings, Portland, Me.
- Held by
- Maine Memory Network / Maine Historical Society
- Identifier
- MMN #23341
- Rights
- Rights held by the contributing institution. See record page.
No features on this image have been positively identified yet. Annotations are added only where a feature can be named from evidence, not from resemblance.
Follow this evidence
- 01Stand at Ottawa House GroundsPlace · Ottawa House Grounds — Resort · 1858–1917
- 02Read the whole layer: The Summer IslandLayer · The Summer Island — Layer 03 · 1858 → 1917
- 03What happened in 1888?Event · The first hotel gone, the second built — and the island mapped — 1888
- 04Stand at Fort Levett — Battery FootePlace · Fort Levett — Battery Foote — Military · 1898–1945
- 05Read the whole layer: Fortress CushingLayer · Fortress Cushing — Layer 04 · 1898 → 1947
- 06Stand at Levett's Cellar & Spicer's CovePlace · Levett's Cellar & Spicer's Cove — Colonial · 1623