Etna

Etna is a town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,012 at the 2000 census. Etna is named for the famed Mt. Etna in Italy. It was originally known as "Crosbytown" after its first proprietor, Gen. John Crosby of Hampden, Maine. It was incorporated as a town in 1820. By 1859 it had a population of 802. Camp Etna is an important site in the religion called spiritualism. One of the first spiritualist summer meetings, Camp E... more

Etna is a town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,012 at the 2000 census. Etna is named for the famed Mt. Etna in Italy. It was originally known as "Crosbytown" after its first proprietor, Gen. John Crosby of Hampden, Maine. It was incorporated as a town in 1820. By 1859 it had a population of 802. Camp Etna is an important site in the religion called spiritualism. One of the first spiritualist summer meetings, Camp Etna was founded here in 1876 and continues as an annual event today. Harrison D. Barett from nearby Canaan, Maine, and the first president of the National Spiritualist Association, was one of its founders. New York spirit medium May Scannell Pepper Vanderbilt was the camp's president for 10 consecutive summers, and was eventually buried there. The two other spiritualist summer camps in Maine were/are at Madison, Maine (1879) and the Temple Heights Spiritual Association at Northport, Maine (1882). Today Camp Etna offers a summer season in the... less