Brunette Girl Wearing Black Stockings In The Wooden Cottage

Much later (from around the 18th century onwards), the development of industry led to the development of weavers' cottages and miners' cottages.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term cottage is used in North America to represent 'a summer residence (often on a large and sumptuous scale) at a watering-place or a health or pleasure resort' with its first recognised use dating to 1882, in reference to Bar Harbor in Maine.