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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Ocean View Hotel

"Ocean View Hotel Ocean View Hotel porch, Swan's Island, ca. 1900Swan's Island Historical Society The Ocean View Hotel was located at 241…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts

"… of Ryder’s Cove and Hewes Point, the Dark Harbor summer people valued a more natural, rugged summer experience, including walking on the stone…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Summer Pleasures

"Summer Pleasures Dale Stockbridge and Galen Turner, Swan's Island, ca. 1965Swan's Island Historical Society Playing at the beach, Swan's…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Summer Pleasures cont'd

"Summer Pleasures cont'd Seaside Hall in Atlantic village, Swan's Island, ca. 1925Swan's Island Historical Society Ice cream socials were also…"

Poland Spring Preservation Society

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Indians & Rusticators: Wabanakis & Summer Visitors on Mount Desert Island 1840s-1920s

"By the early 1870s, rusticators had plenty of hotels from which to choose, and by the early 1880s, many had built their own “cottages.” For the…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"Second Islesboro Inn, aerial view, ca. 1950Islesboro Historical Society Ryder’s Cove and Hewes Point remained the island’s only summer communities…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"Ryder’s Cove remains a very popular summer destination. The Ryder School House was opened in 1864 to educate those who resided on the Main Road…"

Norcross Heritage Trust

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

"… builders were responsible for erecting the large summer homes for wealthy summer residents, who spent two to three months here."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Schools

"The summer school was often kept by some of the inhabitants’ daughters. The first schools were held in rooms of houses within the district, the…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Our Resources

"Henry Hatch Family, 1991. Summer Cottages: 1890-1930, Earl G. Shettleworth Jr. Published by the Islesboro Historical Society, 1989."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Water Transportation

"… 17 of 1933, amidst much controversy between the summer and year-round residents, the Legislature repealed the 1913 law, which opened up the island…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - About Us

"… topic within each category; Schools (Education), Summer Resorts (Recreation), Businesses/Cottage Industries (Land Use), Water Transportation…"

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

"… have music and dancing especially during the summer months when the summer population was present."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - MDI and the Fire of 1947

"Today it is better known with its hotels and B&Bs as a tourist spot while Seal Harbor and Northeast Harbor are now home to the summer population and…"

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

"… were boarding houses, boardwalks, sidewalks, hotels, restaurants, movies, and dances. The mackerel population had been fished to exhaustion by…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"This was the family that owned the largest summer hotel in America. The reason they did this, as one writer noted, was because this family, "like…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Lost Gardens of Eden

"… landscape well before it became a favorite summering place of Indigenous peoples. European settlers made broad use if its natural resources, but…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Inns

"… spent many summers working at the Malvern Hotel. As recounted by his son, Theodore Norris Mitchell: “When my father was a young man he worked as a…"

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

"… swept through 67 summer estates, five large hotels and 170 year-round homes. It surrounded the village, cutting off all roads."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Cottagers

"Overall, their homes and hotels were less extravagant than those in Bar Harbor. But there were monumental exceptions, such as John D."

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

"… 1800’s and early 1900’s saw the building of large hotels and many large summer “cottages”. This time period is sometimes referred to as the heyday…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Odd Fellows Hall

"… its use is largely restricted to the warmer summer months. There are breakfasts in the hall on Sundays, the theater group 'The Hockamock Players'…"