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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts

"Summer Resorts map of Islesboro  Text by Donna Seymour Seaside House Key Tag, Islesboro, ca. 1900Islesboro Historical Society Seaside…"

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

"… summer residents and promoted the island's summer resort industry, which had actually begun in the Ryder's Cove and Hewes Point settlements some…"

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - About Us

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

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Schools

"… Watts’ hymn book and the Almanac, which were resorted to on all occasions. Many who never had but a few months’ schooling became good readers and…"

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"… Point developed into Islesboro's second summer resort area in the 1880s, but was a year 'round community as well."

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"Summer resorts built wharves at Ryder's Cove, Hewes Point and Dark Harbor to accommodate their guests."

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Poland Spring Preservation Society

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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."

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"… 17 of 1933, amidst much controversy between the summer and year-round residents, the Legislature repealed the 1913 law, which opened up the island…"

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

"… the economic opportunities presented by a popular resort. For them, the island was a familiar place long frequented by their ancestors for fishing…"

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Camp Runoia

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Camp Winnebago

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Norcross Heritage Trust

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - You Can Get Here From There

"With the development of Bar Harbor as a summer resort, and later the villages of Northeast Harbor and Seal Harbor, the steamboats were essential in…"

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Architecture & Landscape database - Lost Gardens of Eden

"The development of the area as a summer resort and prestigious destination was the impetus of the garden and landscapes we find there at the start of…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Bar Harbor: Building of Arts

"… had the potential to be more than a “mere summer resort” and become a “nucleus that would gather to itself each year whatever might be best in…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - A Short History of Mount Desert Island

"… themselves, and it became famous as a vacation resort and as the home of Acadia National Park. The extraordinarily beautiful and abundant natural…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rusticators on the Rise

"… reputation as one of the most fashionable resorts firmly set. In truth, a wide range of people comprised the island’s seasonal population."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"Bar Harbor had become a first-rate resort, bustling with stores and liveries and carpenter shops to support those hotels and their tourists."

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"… Park was not unlike other amusement parks and resorts of the period. Landscape and civil engineer Frank Blaisdell drew up the plans for the park…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Of The Arts Era

"… transformation of Bar Harbor into a major summer resort destination for the middle classes. Ruth Draper Ruth Draper X One of the most…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 3 of 4

"The Black Mountain Ski Resort now features skiing for the family at affordable rates, a tubing hill for the non-skier, and a modern, up-to-date lodge…"

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Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 3 of 3

"… on the porch of his cottage at the popular summer resort of Nahant, Massachusetts. By the time the Philadelphia photographer Frederick Langenheim…"

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Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… 1897 - 1898 • Telegraph service established • Resort hotel Ne-Mat-Ta-No built in North Lubec by Portland YMCA • “Klondike” – Electrolytic Marine…"