Tobias Roberts

Tobias Lord Roberts (1835–1908) was an American businessman and hotelier.

[1] He opened Agamont House, the first hotel in the town, in 1855, converting a home built fifteen years earlier.

[3] Ten years later, Alpheus Hardy became the first of Bar Harbor's summer residents to build a "cottage".

[4][5] To improve access for tourists to the town, he created a wharf in Bar Harbor in 1868.

Upon his death, Roberts' family sold several of his properties, including Rockaway House on Bar Harbor's West Street.

Agamont Park, the former site of Roberts' Agamont House hotel