Description: Photographer Eleanor R. Mayo lived with Ruth Moore whose sister, Esther Moore Trask's father-in-law was George Washington Trask, another brother of William S. Trask, hence thee title of the photograph, "Aunt Belle's House."
Description: Founded at the insistence of Elizabeth S. Peterson. The chapel was built by Miss Peterson in 1916 and consecrated in 1917. It remained in regular use until 1925. It fell largely into disuse and disrepair and after a few intermittent services in the 1940s it was largely abandoned until it was demolished in 1966.
Description: This photo appears on page 66 in Peter Blanchard's book "We Were an Island" but archivists at the Southwest Harbor Pubic Library believe that in the book it is printed backward (flipped horizontally). This is based on a) having scanned the original slide emulsion-side up, which is the correct way on a flatbed scanner and b) noting that the buildings in the background on Great Gott Island look reversed in the book photo. Northwood Kenway loaned the original Agfachrome 35mm slide to the Library for scanning. His daughter Nancy took the picture. [show more]
Description: "Solomon T. Gott (1848-1924) was a great-great-grandson of Daniel Gott Jr. (1739-1814) and Hannah Norwood (1744-1836). Collistia or Collista F. Mullin (1853-1940) was born in February 1853. Collistia married Solomon T. Gott (1848-1924), son of James S. Gott and Hulda (Dawes) Gott, on July 20, 1873 in Tremont, Maine. Collistia F. (Mullin) Gott died in 1940 in Tremont, Maine."
Description: Home of Elizabeth S. Peterson The cottage was destroyed by fire on January 29, 1925. The fire also claimed the life of Elizabeth Peterson.