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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…"

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

"… a means of supporting and developing the island's resort industry. Early island contractors and builders were responsible for erecting the large…"

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."

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."

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…"

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…"

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…"

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."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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