LB2016.15.869

LB2016.15.869

The New Meadows Inn, Bath, Maine. Note the double glider swing in the front yard. "In the early 1900s, Pinson’s Boat Yard in Brunswick looked across the New Meadows at the New Meadows Inn in Bath. Built in 1898, the Inn was nearly adjacent to the Maine Central Railroad Bridge and Electric Car Bridge. It was about half a mile upriver from the more recent New Meadows Inn on State Road, which as of 2018 operated as a daycare center. The original Inn was a popular dining destination. Shore dinners cost 50 cents at a time when clams were 15 cents a bushel and lobsters were 50 cents per hundred. Meals at the Inn were legendary, and on Sundays, it was not unusual for the establishment to serve as many as 800 patrons. The New Meadows Inn was easy to reach on foot, by horse and buggy, or by train. Maine Central Railroad trains stopped at a flag station, which was established soon after the Inn opened. Diners took the electric car from Bath for 5 cents; in summer the cars ran every half hour. Private boats tied up at the Inn’s float, and excursion boats from Portland stopped there. This well-known dining establishment burned down in March 1937. https://www.mainememory.net/artifact/108634