Maine Memory Network

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - The Tea Room

"Mary used the house to take in boarders during the war. Clevie remarried after Mary, a Sunday school teacher, passed away in 1950."

Maine's Road to Statehood - The Coasting Law of 1789

"… at each state with which it did not share a boarder. Since Maine was a district of Massachusetts, a ship sailing south from Maine would not have to…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"… it Mount Desert House and expanded it to allow boarders. Bar Harbor had become a first-rate resort, bustling with stores and liveries and carpenter…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"… on Mount Desert Island, began taking in summer boarders at Harbor Cottage. From here on until the mid 1960s, the Savage family and neighborhood of…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - 1790s: A Growing Movement

"… would be sidestepped because Maine would still boarder all of the same states as before its independence."