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Description
Long Cove Point in Bristol began to be developed as a summer colony in the 1890s. Sixty-four lots were available for purchase at $10 to $25 each.
Named for Henry Chamberlain of Round Pond, the Chamberlain development had about 16 cottages and a post office by 1906. In 1910 a clubhouse, initially lighted with oil lamps and Japanese lanterns, was ready for use.
In the early 1920s four men purchased the Hackleton farm and marketed the property as “The Land of Treasured Vacations.” The colony added many more cottages in the 1920s and 1930s. Electricity reached Long Point Cove in 1925, and by 1950 the cottages had indoor plumbing.
Amenities included a kitchen, bowling alley and clay tennis courts. In the summer the club was a busy place, with whist and bridge parties, covered dish suppers, dances, croquet, clambakes, movies and other activities.
Steamboats that brought the summer people docked at a wharf on the south side of Long Cove Point. Long Point continues to be an active summer community in the 2020s.
About This Item
- Title: Cottages at Long Cove Point, Bristol, ca. 1920
- Creator: Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Co.
- Creation Date: circa 1920
- Subject Date: circa 1920
- Location: Chamberlain, Bristol, Lincoln County, ME
- Media: Glass Plate Negative
- Dimensions: 12.7 cm x 17.8 cm
- Local Code: LB2007.1.104853
- Collection: Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Co.
- Object Type: Image
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- Leisure
- Resorts
- Summer houses
- Tourism
- Vacation houses
- Vacations
- Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company
- Postcards
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