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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM110T_historic-architecture-in-sullivan-harbor_Sullivan-ME.html
In the 1800s when ship building, quarrying and mining thrived, enterprising businessmen built boarding houses and hotels to house the many laborers. Blacksmith shops, livery stables, grocery and feed stores, and a meat shop flourished as well. The…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM110R_summer-rusticators-the-tourist-trade-and-the-waukeag-house-hotel_Sullivan-ME.html
With the help of steamship & train travel in the late 1800s, summer tourism peaked. But within a few short decades, the age of the auto and better roads to Bar Harbor - plus closing mines and quarries - led to decades of gradual economic decline a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM110P_the-view-of-frenchman-bay_Sullivan-ME.html
All the mountains that you see are part of Acadia National Park
The Age of Sail lingered into the 1900s as sailing ships proved more economical than steamships for carrying heavy cargos such as granite.
Generations of watercraft ply the bay …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y9_bass-harbor-head-light_Tremont-ME.html
Among the best known and most photographed spots in Maine, the Bass Harbor Head Light was built in 1858 to mark the bar across the eastern entrance to Blue Hill Bay. The grounds and residence of this facility now comprise the private residence of …