Carpenter upon making this the cottage city of America.” Towne was a longtime business partner of both Blood and Erastus Carpenter of the Oak Bluffs Land & Wharf Co. A speech was made by George Towne of Fitchburg, whom the newspapers described as “most delicious of wits and most humorous of natural orators.” In his speech, Towne “complimented Mr. The Sea View Hotel was opened days later in a grand celebration attended by (and organized by) Blood and some of his Fitchburgian friends. The Cottage City,” gushed over the beauty of the town, especially the architecture, and noted that “the handsomest place on the island was owned by a Fitchburg man, H.A. An anonymous letter printed in the Fitchburg Sentinel on July 20 titled “Oak Bluffs. The first appearance of the name “Cottage City” was in the summer of 1872. And as superintendent of this railroad, one of his principal commercial goals was to bring more paying visitors to Oak Bluffs. Blood had created the Boston, Clinton, and Fitchburg Railroad in a merger, among his other ventures. Hiram Albro Blood of Fitchburg was among the first big wave of summer visitors in the early 1870s to buy real estate and build a “cottage” on the secular side of the massive picket fence the Methodists erected to preserve the holy from the honkytonk. The Baptist tabernacle was designed by a Fitchburg architect, many Island teachers received their degrees from Fitchburg Normal School, and the first recorded swimmer to successfully cross the Sound was from Fitchburg. The Fitchburg Military Band was the house band at the grand Sea View Hotel in the late 1880s they gave concerts every morning at eleven o’clock to swimmers at the bathing beach, and regularly led parades down Circuit Avenue.
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