File Attachment: Dorr – George Bucknam Dorr (1855-1944).pdf …Biography Dorr George Bucknam Dorr (1853-1944) Founder and first Superintendent of Lafayette (Acadia) National Park Father: Charles Hazen Dorr (1821 …"Born to Charles F. and Mary Dorr of Boston, George B. Dorr was the heir to a New England textile fortune. …Dorr first visited Mount Desert Island with his family in 1868. …Dorr s spring area was a hub for the future park. In 1916, Woodrow Wilson authorized Sieur de Monts National Monument, naming Dorr custodian.
File Attachment: 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.
File Attachment: 2012-10-11 Dorr's Oldfarm Estate - Volunteer Cleanup.pdf …T h u r s d a y, O c t o b e r 11 , 2 0 1 2 2012 Don Lenahan Dorr's Oldfarm Estate - Volunteer Cleanup In an earlier post to this blog, entitled " …George Bucknam Dorr - the Father of Acadia National Park" (4 May 2012), I mentioned his estate had been neglected for many years; but in December 2011 …Acadia National Park let experienced Friends of Acadia (FOA) volunteers, under Park supervision, initiate a cleanup of Dorr's Oldfarm homesite. …On October 11, 2012, nearly a year later, the Park again allowed a second supervised FOA volunteer effort to continue the cleanup of the Dorr homesite.
File Attachment: 2014-07-21 Acadia National Park, Founded on Inspiration, Perseverance and Generosity.pdf …Dorr and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. …Dorr seized on Eliot's idea of preservation, was his vice-president on the HCTPR and dedicated his life to the establishment and development of Acadia …There is a bronze memorial plaque for him at Sieur de Monts located on the east base of Dorr Mountain, formerly Dry Mountain and renamed in his honor. …But unlike the recognition accorded to Eliot and Dorr, no Acadia NP mountain is named for him.
File Attachment: 2013-12-09 The Emery Path -- Another Historic Gem in Acadia NP.pdf …It continues to the junction of the Schiff Path up to the Dorr Mountain summit and the Kurt Diederich Climb path down to the junction of the Kane, Jesup …Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association's Roads and Paths committee under chairman Herbert Jaques and with notable co-members Waldron Bates, George Dorr …It is an amazing adventure over granite steps and staircases across the lower east side of Dorr Mountain. …It is here where this prominent photograph was taken of George Dorr, a founder of Acadia NP and its first superintendent.
File Attachment: CCC - Russell - 2008.pdf …Dorr, and John D. Rockefeller Jr., the visionary founders of the heritage we serve today. …Dorr, ever politically-agile, quickly brought the CCC to Acadia. By Memorial Day, when Mr. …Dorr hosted Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes and National Park Service Director Horace Albright at Old Farm, two CCC camps were under construction …Dorr would Friends of Acadia Journal write that they furnished the park with all the labor it has had, road construction apart and have enabled
File Attachment: 2013-11-01 Acadia NP's Oceanfront Cottage.pdf …On 14 August 1929 Leffingwell's six children conveyed the Camp Aim-Al property to George Dorr, then superintendent of Acadia National Park and board member …of the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations.*3 Less than a week later, on 20 August, Dorr transferred it to John D. …site and ocean ledge.*4 *Footnotes: 1 See my blog posts of 5 February and 15 April 2013. 2 Bar Harbor Times, September 12, 1928, p. 3. 3 Because of Dorr's
File Attachment: 2012-12-03 Acadia National Park's Discarded Sweet Waters of Acadia Slab.pdf …Dorr, was completing construction of three buildings at Sieur de Monts: a spring cover house, a bottling house and a reception room building. …Possibly it was because Dorr wanted a more prominent stone to tout the Sweet Waters of Acadia. …Unwanted bushes, weeds and small trees have been removed from the pool's perimeter and the Dorr memorial.
File Attachment: 2013-07-11 The Pulpits of Acadia.pdf …The second pulpit rock initially appeared on 1896 path and MDI maps and was located in the gorge between Cadillac and Dorr Collections of Jesup Memorial …crosses the [Kebo] brook and finally reaches the gorge and runs in the bed of the brook up between Green Pulpit Rock - Gorge Path [Cadillac] and Dry [Dorr …Here are their GPS locations: Bar Harbor Shore Path: N44 23.444' W068 12.083' Cadillac-Dorr Gorge Trail: N44 21.556' W068 13.211' Maple Spring
File Attachment: 2012-06-24 A Memorial Walk - Bar Harbor to Sieur de Monts.pdf …To your left is the white Sieur de Monts spring house; Bostonian George Dorr, the "Father of Acadia National Park," purchased the land in 1909 to preserve …Behind the Nature Center is a memorial to George Dorr. …: N44 21.695' W068 12.513' 8-Abbe Museum: N44 21.662' W068 12.475' 9-Jesup, Diederich, Kane memorials: N44 21.512' W068 12.425' 10-George Dorr
File Attachment: 2014-06-04 Acadia National Park's Little-Known Mountain.pdf …In 1939 Daniel's son Fred approached George Dorr, Acadia NP superintendant, for permission to install a bronze plaque in Daniel's honor on the former site …Dorr favored the request for its historical import and recommended it to the NPS director in Washington, DC.
File Attachment: Champlain Society - BHT - 08-01-1996.pdf …Dorr, for the energy to see the idea through; and John D. Rockefeller Jr., for backing the enormous enterprise with his substantial fortune. …Dorr, to pick up the banner and run with it.
Description: William Otis Sawtelle (1874-1939) was born on July 7, 1874 to William H. Sawtelle and Addie Sawtelle in Bangor, Maine. William married Louise Coburn Burpee (1877-1941), daughter of George Egerton Burpee and Louise (Thissell) Burpee, on June 17, 1903 in Bangor, Maine. He was a physicist, historian, genealogist, and author. He founded the Islesford Historical Museum in 1919. William Otis Sawtelle died on September 22, 1939.
File Attachment: 2013-01-10 Acadia National Park's Other Bar Island.pdf …The Bar Harbor Times reported that Park superintendent George Dorr had hosted a luncheon for 60 guests from the Appalachian Club at Echo Lake "at the beautiful