Page, Frederic Roscoe (sold)
Frederic Roscoe Page (July 26, 1850 - 1998) was a civil engineer and land speculator active in Malden, Massachusetts in the late 19th century. Page was born in Concord, Massachusetts. Page had close ties to Maine where several of his family members were born. In the late 19th century, Page became involved with fellow Maldenite Sylvester Kinsman Abbott (1831 - 1890) the Petit Manan Land Company, a real-estate investment in Maine intended as a rival to Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island. His death date is not known, but he was active as late as 1897 and his wife Alice Maud Mason Page (1863 - 1926) remarried in 1899, suggesting a death date of about 1898.
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)