The Old Orchard
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Jeffrey A. Scully
This wonderful selection of old photographs includes images of the famous and the wealthy, such as Charles Lindbergh and Rudy Vallee, and of the exciting summertime events that kept visitors coming back year after year. But, possibly more importantly, it also gives an intimate glimpse into the lives of Old Orchard's ordinary people as they played out their lives through the seasons of each passing year. The Old Orchard shows all of us--residents and tourists alike--how much, and yet how little, has changed over the past century.
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The Old Orchard - Jeffrey A. Scully
1995
Introduction
Of all the coastal destinations in Maine, there is none quite like Old Orchard. The crescent-shaped stretch of sandy beach that reaches from Goosefare Brook to Pine Point at the top of York County has always drawn people to it, from before the time British explorer Martin Pring first walked the beach in 1603 through to the present day. It has a long and storied history almost without equal on the Northeastern seaboard.
For those who are looking to this book as a definitive history of the town, I’m afraid you may be disappointed. It is not intended to be definitive: my hope is that it will provide a glimpse of what made Old Orchard famous around the world as a vacation destination, and that readers will return to these pages again and again for years to come—and every time discover new elements of the town’s past.
In 1845 Ned Clemens (also known as The Hermit of Old Orchard
), editor of the town’s first newspaper The Goose Fair Guide and Old Orchard Bellows, predicted that the beach at Old Orchard would become world famous as a tourist center. Within a few years after his death, his prophesies began to come true.
By 1874 the destiny of Old Orchard literally came rolling into town. Three railroad stations provided summertime jump-off points for as many as ten thousand people a day attending camp meetings. Famous orators, such as Henry Cabot Lodge and Thomas B. Reed, spent time at the Beach, and the last of the bare-knuckle boxing champions, John L. Sullivan, visited nearly every Sunday for clambakes.
One year later, Ebenezer Staples, a town selectman, built the first of many elegant hotels in Old Orchard. The Old Orchard House, a three hundred-room resort, became synonymous with the town of Old Orchard and the elegant lifestyles of the most prestigious families of New England and Canada. Soon there were a dozen or more first-class hotels along the beach, where high-rise condominiums dominate the skyline today.
Originally a part of neighboring Saco, residents of The Seashore at Saco
(as the area was known) felt they were being neglected by the mother town, and they grew tired of the poor treatment and elitist attitude shown them by the rest of Saco. After years of suffering fires without proper protection, disgruntled residents didn’t need much more reason to seek relief from the state. Saco itself provided the final straw, according to Ernesto Brousseau, in a dispute over school textbooks in 1882. Disappointed with the politics of education, a school teacher by the name of Edgar Yates purchased books for his students with his own money. While this upset Saco officials, Staples, a town elder, took up Yates’ cause and garnered 111 signatures on a petition which was presented to the state legislature. Shortly thereafter, on February 20, 1883, the town of Old Orchard was officially