Bailey Island Hotels

Hotels on Bailey Island ME( Maine) are often required for tourists who require a place to stay. Some may want hotel that is luxury or cheap or has good facilities or offers fun and entertainment. Some may want hotel that has access to culture and to fun. Some may want a hotel on the island or near the island. They may want want s hotel that has a good status and good transport access. Some may prefer a Bailey Island ME motels rather than hotels. Some tourists may want to take pictures of Bailey Island, ME for their photo collections.

Bailey Island was first populated in the 1600s by European settlers. The island was then known as Newaggin, a name which was given it by the local Abenaki Native Americans.

The first settler of the island, William Black, aka Black Will, a freed slave from Kittery, Maine, took possession of the island in 1727 after spending many years of his life there. Because of this, the island became known as Will's Island.

In 1742, Reverend Timothy Bailey may have bought Will's Island for one pound of tobacco and a gallon of rum from William Black. Another variation of this history is that the minister's wife liked the island and the Bailey's bribed municipal officials to find some flaw in Will's title and award the island to them. In any event, after Timothy Bailey and his wife took possession of the island, William Black left to live on Orr's Island. From then on, the island was known as Bailey Island.

The Bailey Island Bridge, which spans Will's Gut and connects Bailey Island to Orr's Island, was completed in 1928. Will's Gut is the only geographical feature that still bears the name of the original non native inhabitant of Bailey Island.

One popular rumor that has persisted for at least the last half century is that the bridge from Orr's Island to Bailey Island was one of two granite cribstone bridges, ever built in the world, and that the other one in Scotland, collapsed shortly after construction. In fact, it appears to be the only such bridge ever constructed. The unique construction of the bridge permits the substantial tides of that area to flow freely through it, greatly reducing the effect that flow would otherwise have on boats transiting its narrow channel opening.

Bailey Island is an island in Casco Bay, and a part of the town of Harpswell, Maine, USA.
Casco Bay is an inlet of the Gulf of Maine on the southern coast of Maine, New England. Its easternmost approach is Cape Small and its westernmost approach is Two Lights in Cape Elizabeth. The city of Portland sits along its southern edge. There are 2 theories on the origin of the name Casco Bay. One theory is based on Portuguese explorer Esteban Gómez, who explored the Maine coast in 1525 and named the bay Bahia de Cascos (Bay of Helmets, based on the shape of the bay). The second theory is based on Aucocisco, the Abenaki name for the bay, which means place of herons ( or sometimes translated as muddy ).

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Bailey Island
Harpswell is a town in Cumberland County Maine which is geographically within Casco Bay in the Gulf of Maine. Harpswell is composed of land contiguous with the rest of Cumberland County, called Harpswell Neck, as well as a several large and small islands: Great Island, Orr's Island, and Bailey Island.
The Native Americans who originally inhabited Harpswell were part of the Abenaki. The Abenaki name for Harpswell Neck, then called West Harpswell, was Merriconeag or quick carrying place, a reference to the narrow peninsula's easy portage. The Abenaki name for Great Island was Erascohegan or Sebascodiggin, which became by the late 1800's Sebascodegan Island. About 1869 Major Nicholas Shapleigh of Eliot bought Merriconeag and Sebascodegan Island from the Abenaki, but because of Indian attacks attempts to settle the area were abandoned until after Dummer's War. The Treaty of 1725 brought a truce and by 1731 many settlers had returned. In 1758 the town was incorporated by the Massachusetts General Court and named for Harpswell in Lincolnshire, England. Industries included farming and some shipbuilding, but fishing brought considerable profit. Because of its scenic beauty, Harpswell is today a favorite with artists and tourists. The Bailey Island Bridge is an Historic Civil Engineering Landmark.
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