Abbott, Sylvester Kinsman (sold)
Sylvester Kinsman Abbott (December 9, 1831 - June 14, 1890) was a Massachusetts based businessman, land speculator, and bookbinder active in the late 19th century. Abbott was born in Bedford, Massachusetts and lived most of his life in nearby Malden. In the late 19th century, he became involved in the Petit Manan Land Company, a real-estate investment in Maine intended as a rival to Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island. The investment was already floundering when he died, but judging from his enormous, monumental tombstone at Forest Dale Cemetery in Malden, he was quite wealthy.
The Bar Harbor that never came to be.
Map of Properties of the Petit Manan Land Company, Steuben, Washington County, Maine
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This is a rare c. 1889 broadside chromolithograph map of Petit Manan, Steuben, Maine, promoting the development of a new resort community 12 miles east of Mount Desert Island. The map was part of an effort to capitalize on the explosion of 'Rusticator' tourism to Mount Desert Island - most of which centered on the port of Bar Harbor. Petit Manan is a finger of forested land projecting into the sea between Dyers Bay and Pigeon Hill Bay, just east of Bar Harbor. The map looks eastward on the fledgling development, with north at the left side of the map. It notes proposed streets, lots for sale, the sites of future hotels, and a large deer preserve. (more details)