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Sorrento:
“Best-Kept Secret on the Maine Coast”
Down East magazine tried to pump up Sorrento in the late 1980s as
“the best-kept secret on the Maine coast.” It still is a secret.
Sorrento holds fast to its origins as a private and pristine
place.
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Yesterday |
Sorrento’s
Grand Beginnings—As Sullivan
Waukeag Neck, the narrow peninsula on Frenchman Bay that is
today Sorrento, was initially located in the town of Sullivan.
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Neighbors |
Noyes Knows
What’s Fair, What’s Flair
Beppie Noyes, at 83, is out and about every day in Sorrento, her
adopted town by marriage. Twice daily, in fact, she walks two
separate circuits from Tasseltop, her old-style home next door
to the town’s old-style library.
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Memories |
“Snooping”
through Sorrento’s Summer Secrets
Sturgis Haskins, a resident so local that others remember calling
him “Sturgie” as a child, did his part 30 years ago to bring
Sorrento’s history to life: He was the founding president of the
Sullivan-Sorrento Historical Society.
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photographed by Katherine Williams. She can be contacted at
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SORRENTO FACTS
Acreage: 2,580
Population, 2000: 295
Population, 1990: 290
Population, 19 years and younger, 2000: 57
Median age: 46.7
School: None (students attend Mountain View
School and Sumner Memorial High School in Sullivan)
Library: Sullivan Free Library (summer only);
Frenchman Bay Library in Sullivan (shared with Sullivan)
Churches: Episcopal 1, United Methodist 1
Town meeting: First Monday following Labor Day in
September
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“[S orrento]
hasn’t changed much since I was a kid.”
—Esther Clement, town
clerk and
Sorrento native
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The early years:
1800 (circa):
Union Church is built.
1888 (circa):
Sorrento’s grand resort Hotel Sorrento is built.
1890:
Episcopal Church of the Redeemer
is dedicated on Aug. 24
1895:
Sorrento incorporates, legally
separating itself from Sullivan.
1900:
Population of Sorrento is 117.
1906:
Fire destroys Hotel Sorrento.
1910:
Population of Sorrento is 147.
1920:
The Sorrento Inn and the Arcadia
accommodate travelers.
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