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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Quarrying

"While the quarry was functioning, boarding houses sprang up on the island to meet the needs of housing the workers."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Hotels in Thomaston

"… Historical Society In addition to numerous boarding houses throughout town, Thomaston had two hotels for guests seeking lodging."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Baird's Quarry history

"To hear more about the boarding houses in Eva Wheaton’s audio story found in the Islanders at Work exhibit, click here."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rusticators come to MDI

"Boarding houses were built to accommodate this new influx of summer visitors – often referred to as “rusticators”."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Phair House, the Bellstead and the Social Security Building

"Beaulier who operated it as a boarding house. Beaulier sold the house in 1944 to the Bell Telephone Company and they used it to house out-of-town…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VI. The deluge of industrial expansion & immigration (1865-1900) - Page 1 of 2

"Pepperell Mills boarding houses, Biddeford, ca. 1875McArthur Public Library The "China Trade", started in 1852, was integral to the success."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Continental Paper Bag Company

"They had to be accommodated with boarding houses, and the management decided that they must live as well as work under the best possible conditions."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Industry

"The company also built a large boarding house, a store, twelve houses on Red Row for their workers’ families, a stable and two barns."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The History of Stockholm

"The company built a boarding house, a store, twelve houses on Red Row Street for their workers' families, a stable and two barns."

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Privy

"… into apartments (or tenements), others were boarding houses where rooms were rented or shared."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"Nearby were the Hillcrest Market, Robert Ash’s shoemaker’s shop, the Herrick family’s hotel/boarding house, and Mr."

Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life

"… on Parker Point and the creation of The Homestead boarding house provided incentive to spend long summers along Maine’s beautiful coast."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"… on the western side of the harbor, built a small boarding house next to the steamboat wharf in the early 1860s."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts

"The summer tourists stayed in a boarding house/inn, named at various times Seaside House, Seaside Hotel, The Islesborough and Johnson-by-the-Sea."

Lincoln, Maine - Ira Fish

"He used the house as a boarding house for men working at the sawmill and working in lumbering. This house became known as the Springer House."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Brick Inn

"… that the Brick Inn at one time may have been a Boarding House. Today, the Brick Inn houses many of the local college students, The present owners…"

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… churches, a blacksmith's shop, a schoolhouse, a boarding house and two wharves, where, for a time, loads of coal and pulp wood waited for the…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"… had a visible result on the island; there were boarding houses, boardwalks, sidewalks, hotels, restaurants, movies, and dances."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Soldiers Of The Civil War

"He married Olive True. In 1870 they lived in a boarding house in Lewiston, and he worked in a mill. By 1880 they returned to the area to live in…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"In 1868, a simple hotel/boarding house was built, which later expanded to accommodate one hundred guests, with modest cottages springing up around it…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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