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Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… 1859, Presque Isle grew large enough to support a hotel, a school, newspapers, churches, and various stores; moreover the extension of the military…"

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Historic Hallowell - Important Buildings and Institutions

"Impressive homes and a stellar hotel fill the city. In the 1960s an urban renewal proposal and a highway construction plan threatened to demolish…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Bangor and Aroostook Railroad

"This station site used to be the Phair Hotel owned by James Phair. He sold the building and land to the B&A, who later tore down the home for the…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - John R Braden

"… was thrown in his honor in one of the area hotels at which he was served a glass of champagne."

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Bath's Historic Downtown - The Customs House

"… home was moved to Vine Street where it became a hotel. The primary purpose of the Customs House in 1858 was to house the Collector of Customs for…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"… for the large tourist population that stayed at hotels and inns of Scarborough and Higgins Beach and Prouts Neck."

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"Typical of this era, a railroad and hotel built in 1816 named the Commercial Hotel were present on the northwest corner of the intersection."

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Porter Family

"That home later became the Hotel Strong. Jeremy also built a mill, called Porter’s Mill, which made excelsior and other wood products."

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Historic Hallowell - Hallowell's First Dwelling

"Augusta, ME: Burleigh & Flynt, 1909. Next steps in the stroll through Hallowell ~ A Great Hotel!"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 3 of 4

"… houses attracted motorists; and large guest hotels on the coast, such as the Checkley and Atlantic House, lured tourists who often arrived by train…"

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Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company

"… they were serenaded back to their state-run hotel where Soviet citizens were not allowed to join them in their rooms."

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Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… House, locally considered one of the finest hotels in the state, was built in 1849. At the north end of downtown, along Front Street just north of…"

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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…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators

"… increased with each new summer season as many hotels offered more amenities and entertainments, and as cottagers initiated new activities, events…"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - "Representing every particular:" John Martin's Reflections, Illustrations, and Commentary - Page 2 of 2

"… of the Iron Company and the Silver Lake Hotel, and wrote descriptions of the business, employees, and conditions of iron production."

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 139-194

"… Caroline Starbird Cate Sewall Steammill Frankfort Hotel Horsemanship Reuben Stetson Daniel Emery Jr."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 2 of 6

"… Charles was thrown into managing the family hotel business with his mother, Mabelle Strout Savage (1877-1965), at the young age of 19 when he was…"

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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…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Columbian Block

"This block was built on the site of the Columbian Hotel and the Columbian Hall, which burned in 1893."

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

"… numbers of “agreeable luxuries” offered by hotels, in fashionable changes of clothing, masquerade balls, musicales and lectures, yachting parties…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Woodrow Wilson

"… they took us down to ugh Capetown and there was a hotel down there down where the hospitals first to get to actually get to walk."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born

"… built the first Asticou Inn in 1883 (a 40-room hotel with only one bathroom, which was located approximately where the current Asticou Inn is…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Savage Family of Mount Desert

"Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou They Should Have Constructed Their Buildings on Wheels Lodging and Hotels: A Savage Family Business"