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Excerpt from Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island
Bar Harbor took its name from the fact that at low water a bar is exposed between this island and Bar Island, sometimes called Rodick's Island. With improved facilities for reaching here the in?ux of visitors rapidly increased, and hotel accommodations were correspondingly enlarged. The nucleus of the present Rodick House was built in 1867, by Daniel Rodick, formerly of Rodick's Island, where his ancestor settled prior to 1776. In 1870, 1875, and in 1882, this house was enlarged, until its present capacity is six hundred or more guests. The Bay View House was built in 1869, and after being enlarged several times, was changed to the Grand Central. The Atlantic House was built in 1870, burned and re-built larger in 1873; the Newport was built in 1871, the St. Sauveur was re-built after having been burned, in 1872, the Rockaway in 1873, the Marlborough, formerly the Deering, about the same time, the Ocean House in 1874, the Belmont in 1879, and the West End a little later. Then there are the Des Isle, the Malvern, the Lynam Cottages, several other smaller houses and more to be built whenever they shall be needed.
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