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Steamship "Mount Desert," leaving Southwest Harbor, ca. 1900

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"Soon other hotels followed in Northeast Harbor. Squire Kimball, who owned its only store, began taking boarders at his expanded farmhouse."

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Harbor Cottage at Asticou Northeast Harbor Maine ca. 1880

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…"