Snug Harbor Camps, located on Great Pond in Belgrade, was closely associated for much of the 20th century with Morris Deering, a prominent figure in the region’s hospitality and tourism history. Maurice Deering was born on May 17, 1898, in Quidnick, Rhode Island. In...
Since the late 1950s, a humble family general store on the shores of Long Pond has grown into one of Belgrade’s most beloved local institutions. In 1958, Jim and Mae Day, together with their son Gary and his wife Joyce, opened the doors of what would come to be known...
For more than 100 years, the Belgrade Lakes have been known for their summer youth camps. The very first one opened in 1900 on Great Pond. That was Camp Merryweather. At the time, Camp Merryweather not only was the first youth camp on Great Pond but also the first...
For more than eight decades, the Tukey name was woven into the economic life of Belgrade, shaped by the rhythms of the forest, the lakes and the steady work of a family-run mill. The business began in the 1930s with Hugh Carlton Tukey, a young Belgrade resident who...
In 2000, Connie Parker acquired the 19th-century Yeaton farmhouse at 422 West Road. She had long remembered her father—an architect from New Jersey—with a fondness for old homes, and his habit of pointing out details such as the hand-carved “fan” over the indigo front...
The Birches is a one-and-a-half-story, rectangular, gable-roofed frame building that is sheathed entirely in wood shingles. It has an enclosed, shallow hip-roofed front porch and an eyebrow dormer on one side of its broad roof. A two-car garage located off the...
The Eleazer Burbank HouseThe “mystery house” has been identified! Dana Sturtevant and John Willey recognized it as the house located on the right as you start up the hill heading north on Rte. 8/11, the Oakland Road, just beyond its intersection with Cemetery Road....
L.L. Bean’s former camp at the entrance to the Mill Stream on Great PondEric Hoogland, our past BHS board member and curator, led historical walking tours in the village for years. Below is a reprint of an earlier history of L.L. Bean’s relationship with the town....
Founded in 1902 by Clarence Colby, Pine Island Camp occupies a wooded island in the middle of Great Pond, the largest lake in the Belgrade Lakes region. From its earliest years the camp’s location — accessible only by boat — reflected Colby’s belief that boys would...