[PDF] Oak Hill (Images of America) by Dana Baldwin Thompson at Arts-Photography

Description

In 1794; Jabez Ricker traded his land in Alfred to the local Shaker community for property in present-day Poland. Shortly after his arrival; travelers came looking for a place to stay; and the Ricker family began its first inn. In 1844; Hiram Ricker; a grandson of Jabez; discovered the curative powers of the mineral spring on the property and began to share the water with family and friends. Within another half century; sales of the water prompted the building of the Poland Spring House; a summer hotel that eventually had more than 500 rooms and the first golf course at a resort in the country; the purchase of the Maine State Building from the 1893 World�s Columbian Exposition in Chicago; and many other ingenious and trend-setting innovations.