Everything about Appledore Island totally explained
Appledore Island, Maine, (formerly known as
Hog Island) is the largest of the
Isles of Shoals located ten miles off the
Maine/
New Hampshire coast.
It was originally settled by Europeans in the colonial era, when the isles served as one of New England's busiest ports. A church was established in 1640. Near 1700, the entire settlement on this island moved to
Star Island in New Hampshire to escape taxes imposed by Massachusetts (of which Maine was then a province).
The heyday of the island was the artists salon that thrived there in the late
1800s, before the advent of artists' colonies as we know them today.
Celia Thaxter reigned over an impressive group of friends who were also the leading artists, musicians, and writers of the day. These included
Edward MacDowell and his wife; American pianist
William Mason, son of
Lowell Mason, who played the grand piano in her salon daily; and
John Knowles Paine, America's first serious composer of note.
Childe Hassam painted Celia's magnificent garden in a style similar to
Monet's Giverney paintings. This rarefied atmosphere ended with Thaxter's death in 1894 and the hotel burned in the early
1900s, bringing down the final curtain on this heyday in American arts. A charming small original daybook from this time period was re-published in part, in 1992, titled
The Isles of Shoals Remembered, by Caleb Mason.
Today, the island is home to
Shoals Marine Laboratory, run cooperatively by
Cornell University and the
University of New Hampshire since the early 1970s. Appledore Island is owned predominantly by the
Star Island Corporation.
The most prominent feature on the island is a tower built to hold a
World War II radar installation. The dome, which would hold the radar, is no longer present and no actual radar unit was ever installed in this tower.
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