History of Boothbay, Southport and Boothbay Harbor, Maine1623-1905With family genealogies . 1886. Mr. Capen had been there the previousyear. At that time there were the Reed, Boyd, Marsh, McDon-ald, Tufts, Dorchester, Blaxton and Boyd and Capen W. R. Shipman, of Tufts, came in 1887. Since thattime the leading promoters of the colony have been the firmcomposed of Professors Harmon and Shipman. In 1890 Grif-fin & Bourne purchased land of Mrs. Marj^ Sproule, from theoriginal Leishman farm, abutting on the west, and built fourcottages and also sold two lots where cottages were built
History of Boothbay, Southport and Boothbay Harbor, Maine1623-1905With family genealogies . 1886. Mr. Capen had been there the previousyear. At that time there were the Reed, Boyd, Marsh, McDon-ald, Tufts, Dorchester, Blaxton and Boyd and Capen W. R. Shipman, of Tufts, came in 1887. Since thattime the leading promoters of the colony have been the firmcomposed of Professors Harmon and Shipman. In 1890 Grif-fin & Bourne purchased land of Mrs. Marj^ Sproule, from theoriginal Leishman farm, abutting on the west, and built fourcottages and also sold two lots where cottages were built. Inthe early nineties three cottages were built there by the lateCharles Chick, of Augusta. The Gables has been owned byHarmon & Shipman since 1892 and run as a public are now thirty-six cottages ; eight are owned by Harmon& Shipman, five by Grifiin & Bourne, six by the Boyd estateand the rest individuall3^ A casino was built in 1904 at a costof $1,500, owned jointly between the Bayville and MurrayHill colonics. This is used through the week for various pub-. f»j*?J: ^ *? ^ tw_fa lift ffa iM af SUMMER RESORTS. 419 lie amusements and Sundays for religious services. Near thecasino is the floating stage, seventeen by seventy feet, with aboathouse. The steamboat has no landing here, but makesone at Murray Hill, one-fourth mile distant. Murray Hill was purchased by Charles Capen, Stoughton,Mass., in 1886, and while in a sense connected with Bayvilleis still a separate summer colony. There are several attractivesummer homes there in an unsurpassed location. The twoCapens, Cochrane and Brown purchased about seventy acreseasterly from Murray Hill in 1886 and erected four cottagesupon their purchase, christening the place Paradise Point. Bay-ville has a summer postal service, while the two latter neigh-borhoods take mail and are tributary in trade to East Boothbay. East Boothbay, throughout the region covered by thisvolume, is only second to Boothbay Harbor as a trading ce
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