Editing Etna, Maine (section)

==History==

Etna is named for the famed [[Mount Etna]] in [[Italy]].  It was originally known as "Crosbytown" after its first proprietor, Gen. John Crosby of [[Hampden, Maine|Hampden]]. Etna was incorporated as a town in 1820.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Varney|first1=George|title=A Gazetteer of the State of Maine|date=1881|publisher=BB Russell|location=Boston|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_bLc-AAAAYAAJ/page/n229 223]|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_bLc-AAAAYAAJ|access-date=January 15, 2016}}</ref> {{circa|1850}} it had a population of 802.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Baldwin|first1=Thomas|last2=J|first2=Thomas|title=A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States|date=1854|publisher=Lippincott Grambo & Co|location=Philadelphia|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newcompletegazet00bald/page/365 365]–366|url=https://archive.org/details/newcompletegazet00bald}}</ref>

[[File:Camp Etna Gladys LaLiberté Memorial Temple.jpg|thumb|left|alt=The Gladys LaLiberté Memorial Temple, Camp Etna, Etna Maine.]]

Camp Etna is a summer colony where [[Spiritualism (movement)|spiritualists]] have held yearly meetings since 1876, when Daniel Buswell, Jr., held the first meeting in a tent. A temple seating 1,100, a club house, and 78 cottages were built in 1880.  The grave of Mrs. [[Mary Scannell Pepper Vanderbilt]], a leader and benefactor of the camp, is marked by a monument.<ref>Federal Writer's Project of the WPA for Maine, ''Maine: A Guide Downeast'' (Washington:1937), p. 299; Cadwallader, M. E. ''Mary S. Vanderbilt: A Twentieth Century Seer.'' Progressive Thinker Publishing House: Chicago, 1921.  Pages 104-117</ref>