Maine Memory Network

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"… in 1904 after a successful stay at the Islesboro Inn in 1903. Islesboro’s first fully equipped boatyard was built on Acre Island in 1920 and is…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"… meat, fish and produce for the expanding summer colony. During peak season delivery trucks hurried about to the summer cottages and large yachts…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Drinking Implements

"… Library / Saco Museum This splendid example of Colonial ceramics bears the likeness of William III."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 3 of 4

"The so-called rusticators came to Blue Hill's summer colony on steamships that met their passengers at the railhead in Rockland."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Depression, War, and Fire

"… this time they were hotels and motels and small inns, built in time to ride a wave of economic prosperity and the rise of the American car culture."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"At Asticou, Chase Savage, who in 1870 had begun taking summer boarders, built the Asticou Inn. Soon other hotels followed in Northeast Harbor."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 4 of 6

"… (1903-1979): The View from Asticou Asticou Inn employees, Northeast Harbor, ca. 1910Mount Desert Island Historical Society Maintaining…"

Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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