This article is undated and type-written. It may also be incomplete. It was apparently written by Harold S. Clark who gives the Old House as his address.

House of Harold S. Clark

31 Crowell Road

Sagamore Beach

Built by John Gibbs, 1690 [born in Sandwich, Sept. 12, 1634;died, April 30 1725 (6 sons)]

Sold by his family to Capt. Paul Crowell, 1809

Sold by his heirs to Rev. Francis E. Clark, 1910

"In the summer of 1903, Mr. H.L.Chipman, editor of the Sagamore Herald, a paper which ceased publication two or three decades ago, bestirred himself to help his friend Rev. Edwin E. Phillips, the Methodist minister of Sagamore, to dispose of some shore property he had accumulated. Mr. Phillips had thought to induce Methodist authorities to establish a camp ground at the beach but this didn't work out and the unfortunate parson had become extremely land-poor. The newspaper editor knew just the answer to the minister's dilemma. Over at Monument Beach there was a small summer Colony of Christian Endeavor people and he proposed to sell the property to them. Included in the group were Mr. and Mrs. George W. Coleman, Mr. and Mrs. Hiram N. Lathrop , and Mr. and Mrs. James Donovan.

Mr. Chipman gave the group earnest and repeated sales talks and finally got George Coleman to agree to have a look at the Phillips property. So one summer day Mr. Coleman and his nephew, Carville Hands hopped on their bikes and peddled along the sandy roads to the Sagamore railroad station. On learning that the beach was still two miles away they almost turned back, but in the end they pushed on across the causeway and down to the beach, reaching the bluff where Mr. Coleman ultimately built his house. The sheer beauty of the beach with its background of dunes and woodland made Mr. Coleman give an enthusiastic report to his friends at Monument Beach. A committee was formed and a year later on April 19, 1904, the Sagamore Beach Company as a legal concern was born, though the first cottages of the members were not erected until 1905."

In 1906, Sagamore Lodge was erected as a center for community doings.

In 1908, the Bradford Arms, a good-sized and delightful shore hotel, tragically doomed to premature death by fire (in 1935), took form, and a boardwalk was built on the Strand between the two hotels.

The Assembly Hall rose in 1907, the meeting place for conferences and entertainments.

The Colony Club was organized on a permanent basis in September, 1909.

As the twentieth century grew up the Colony grew up the Colony grew up wit it. In the earliest days we reached the beach from the Sagamore Railway station by a horse-drawn coach with Eugene Ellis, Sr. in the driver's seat.

Since 1917, Sagamore Beach has greatly prospered. It got into national political news when Hon. Joseph W. Martin bought a cottage on the horse-shoe curve near the Town Landing.

Now children and grandchildren of the original settlers enjoy the delights of Sagamore Beach [rest of article may continue but not available]