 Summer visitors, nicknamed "rusticators", arrived in 1855, followed by wealthy families, nicknamed "cottagers" as their large houses were quaintly called cottages.Charles Eliot is credited with the idea for the park.George B. Dorr, the "Father of Acadia National Park," along with Eliot's father Charles W. Eliot, supported the idea through donations of land, and advocacy at the state and federal levels.