After maintaining and improving the Rocky Point property for over fifteen years, William Winslow, the park’s founder, decided to sell the park to Byron Sprague, a local entrepreneur intent upon turning the Point into an upper class shore resort. Shore resorts had become increasingly popular among middle class citizens looking to emulate the vacation styles [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Middle Class Accessible
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged hotels, middle class, new york times, newport, saratoga springs, watering holes on March 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Welcome!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Continental Steamboat Company, introduction on March 24, 2008 | No Comments »
“We are about to visit together another world, or at least a new country, full of mysteries and unknown delights, if you have never been there; if you have, it may give pleasure of ‘twice-told tale’ to hear again of a country which has a king, and a hundred thousand willing subjects who are clamorous [...]
Good News for Rocky Point
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Rocky Point on March 24, 2008 | 5 Comments »
After over a hundred years of uncertainty regarding Rocky Point’s fate, legislators have finally secured a piece of land for the public indefinitely. Although owned by private interests since the park’s inception, the camp meetings, shore resort vacations, and days at the amusement park opened this bayside resort to anyone willing to pay the admission [...]
