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George Bucknam Dorr - the Father of Acadia National Park
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Lenahan - Donald Patrick Lenahan
  • 2012-05-04
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2012-05-04 George Bucknam Dorr - the Father of Acadia National Park.pdf
Dorr has been called the "Father of Acadia National Park." Appropriately so. …Dorr was among the original founders of the HCTPR in 1901and its incorporators in 1903. …Thus in 1929, upon Dorr's suggestion, the Park's name changed from Lafayette to Acadia. Dorr, who was six feet tall and blue-eyed, never married. …A simple memorial stone was placed at the Dorr family lot in Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Fire, Obliteration, Mission 66, and Park Trails Program, 1943-2003
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Events, Fire
  • Places, Hiking Trail
  • Brown - Margaret Coffin Brown
  • Vekasi - Jim Vekasi
  • 2006
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Excerpt from Pathmakers: Cultural Landscape Report for the Historic Hiking Trail System of Mount Desert Island, pgs. 149-156


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Effects_of_the_1947_Fire.pdf
…Benjamin Hadley, who was appointed as Acadia s first, located within park boundaries, was represented superintendent following the death of George Dorr …For Dorr Mountain, through Sieur de Monts Spring, and several years after the fire, Norm Walls and his crew along Schooner Head. …were installed, using the mountain names assigned by Hiking through these areas meant returning covered Dorr in 1918.236 231 with ashes and black soot …fusion was caused by the concurrent use of the old mountain names and George Dorr s new mountain A total of approximately seventy trails within the