You searched for: Year start: 1900✖Year end: 1910✖Place: is exactly 'Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford'✖Date: [blank]✖Subject: Structures✖
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: William Otis Sawtelle (1874-1939), physicist, historian, genealogist, author founded the museum in 1919. Architect Edmund B. Gilchrist designed the Colonial Revival building, built in 1927. The building, Sawtelle’s Edwin Hadlock’s ship chandlery (The Blue Duck Ships’ Store) the Sawtelle gravesite, and 1.3 acres were acquired by the National Park Service in 1948. The Islesford Historical Museum built in 1927 contains deeds, maps, engravings, papers, and artifacts related to the early history of the Acadia region. The collection also includes artifacts of the region's cultural history including fur- nishings, tools, photographs and scrapbooks. The records of the active schooner which carried cargoes from the Cranberry Isles to ports all over the world cover about one hundred years beginning in 1796. [show more]
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: Note indicates the hotel was torn down circa 1918/1919. Postcard depicting Hotel Islesford. Inscription on front reads "Hotel Islesford/ [illegible] 1918-19-" in blue pen inscription on back reads "Irene Bartlett" in blue pen People Depicted: Irene Bartlett Black and white
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: Photograph of the Islesford Life-Saving Station, with five men standing out front. Inscription on back reads "Life Saving Station/ Little Cranberry Island" in blue pen Black and white
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: Photograph of the Cambell House with four figures (Kate, Edna, Ada, and Ben) standing out front. Inscription on back reads "The Campbell House/ Kate, Enda, Ada + Ben" in pencil with an Islesford Historical Society stamp in the bottom right corner. People Depicted: Edna Hadlock, Ada Dwelley Black and white
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: Group portrait of Edna J. Hadlock, Cora Spurling, and Ada M. Dwelley sitting on steps, wearing hats. Inscription reads "Ada Dwelley on Left/ Cora Spurling/ Edna Hadlock" in black pen People Depicted: Ada M. Dwelley, Cora M. Spurling, Edna J. Hadlock Black and white
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: "The first Coast Guard presence in the Mt. Desert Island area was a Life Saving Station located on Little Cranberry Island, established by an act of congress on June 18th, 1878. In 1937, the Southwest Harbor complex was created and used as a lighthouse depot by the U.S. Light House Service. By 1945, the Coast Guard Station on Little Cranberry Island was moved to the facility in Southwest Harbor.” - “Sector Field Office (SFO) Southwest Harbor, Southwest Harbor, Maine – History,” United States Coast Guard site, 06/28/13, Accessed online 07/20/10; http://www.uscg.mil/d1/sfoSouthwestHarbor/history.asp. [show more]