Excerpt from Poland Spring Centennial: A Souvenir One hundred years ago, on the slope of the lovely elevation embraced in the present expansive Poland Spring estate, then a hill-farm in the forest, Jabez Richer and his sons laid the foundation of the first Ricker inn, which, from the swinging of its hospitable sign, to this time, has been maintained by the Ricker family, and from which has developed the great New England Spa of to-day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.