You searched for: Year start: 1900✖Year end: 1910✖Place: is exactly 'Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford'✖Place: Islesford✖Subject: Structures✖
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: Photograph of the Islesford Neighborhood House taken around 1950 when it was being used by the Rockbound Grange as a Grange hall as the sign in the upstairs window shows. Outhouses can be seen out back on either side, one side for women and one side for men.
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: The photograph shows the room which was built onto the back of the Islesford Library in 1998 to house the Islesford Historical Society collection.
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: Little Cranberry Island. Houses, from left: S. Hadlock, 1830, burned 1915; H. Wells, 1903; and C. Pancoast, 1903. Ocean with small boats moored in middle ground.