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Valley Cove on Somes Sound
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places
  • Acadia National Park
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Valley Cove on Somes Sound
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
...The postcard was printed by the Albertype Company for Bar Harbor stationer E.F. Teague to sell in his shop...
The Memorials of Acadia
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Park
  • Lenahan - Donald Patrick Lenahan
  • Acadia National Park
  • In Copyright
The Memorials of Acadia
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
...From 2012 to 2017, Don Lenahan of Bar Harbor, Maine wrote blog posts about the people, geography, and history of Acadia National Park...
Valley Cove on Somes Sound, Acadia National Park
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Sound
  • Acadia National Park
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
...It may have been contracted for Bar Harbor stationer E.F. Teague and sold by the Park Theater...
Balance Rock on South Bubble
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Mountain
  • Townsend - Charles A. Townsend (1871-1932)
  • Acadia National Park
  • No Copyright - United States
Balance Rock on South Bubble
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
...The name was probably changed because of the confusion between it and the famous Balance Rock on the shore at Bar Harbor...
Precipice Trail
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Hiking Trail
  • Acadia National Park
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Precipice Trail
Southwest Harbor Public Library
File Attachment:
Precipice Trail - T.pdf
…Funded by: Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association and Rudolph Brunnow Rudolph Ernest Brunnow (1858-1917) Chairman of the Path Committee 1912-1917 He …"He died in the spring of 1917, leaving behind some of the most challenging, controversial, and highly crafted trails in the Bar Harbor System " …Bar Harbor Times, November 21, 1914, p. 1.
Eagle Lake
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Lake
  • Acadia National Park
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Eagle Lake
Southwest Harbor Public Library
File Attachment:
Eagle Lake.pdf
…water is in some places over ten fathoms deep, and so sweet and pure that it furnishes a very satisfactory water supply to the cottages and hotels of BarHarbor. …During the summer season, several times each day, four horse barges run from Bar Harbor to Eagle Lake, a distance of 2 miles, through the forest, and …It is a quaint little stern wheel craft, formerly used on the Merrimac at Newburyport, and hauled up from Bar Harbor to Eagle Lake by a hundred oxen and
Echo Lake
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Lake
  • Acadia National Park
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Echo Lake
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Echo Lake is located on the western side of Mount Desert Island. The lake is a popular swimming area and is surrounded by hiking trails on the nearby mountains.


File Attachment:
Echo Lake.pdf
…activities on Mount Desert Island that was considered an essential experience by early rusticators taking a buckboard ride between Somesville and Southwest Harbor …"The road to Somesville runs northward from [Southwest] harbor, and in about a mile form the Island House reaches the divergence of the Seal-Cove road. …the silvery waters of Somes Sound come into view, beyond the rugged rocks of Robinson Mountain; and the hotel on Green Mountain shows the direction of BarHarbor.
Great Head
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Shore
  • Acadia National Park
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Great Head
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Great Head is located near Sand Beach in Acadia National Park. The area was owned in the early 1900s by the Satterlee family and they built an observatory and a tea house on the point. The ruins of the structure remain. J.P. Morgan had purchased 110 acres on the Maine coast at Mount Desert including Great Head, now given to Acadia National Park, as a gift for his daughter, Louisa. She and her husband Herbert Satterlee had built their country home there and enjoyed it for many years. [show more]


File Attachment:
Great Head.pdf
…Great Head is a prominent object when passing from Bar Harbor to Southwest Harbor by water. No description can do justice to its savage grandeur.
Otter Creek Cliffs
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Park
  • Acadia National Park
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Otter Creek Cliffs
Southwest Harbor Public Library
File Attachment:
Otter Creek Cliffs.pdf
…Benjamin Franklin De Costa (1831-1904) "Otter Cliffs The drive from Bar Harbor to the Otter Cliffs is five miles, and the road, nearly parallel with
Duck Brook Carriage Road Bridge
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Structures, Transportation, Bridge
  • Acadia National Park
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Duck Brook Carriage Road Bridge
Southwest Harbor Public Library
File Attachment:
Duck Brook Carriage Road Bridge.pdf
…Desert, ME 04660, Printed by The Bar Harbor Times Print Shop, 1985, 1986, 1987. See also: Duck Brook Motor Bridge
Cadillac Mountain Road, Acadia National Park
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Park
  • Places, Road
  • Acadia National Park
  • Copyright Undetermined
Cadillac Mountain Road, Acadia National Park
Southwest Harbor Public Library
The Summit, Cadillac Mountain
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Landscape
  • Places, Mountain
  • Acadia National Park
  • Copyright Undetermined
The Summit, Cadillac Mountain
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Eagle Lake and Cadillac Mountain
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Lake
  • Places, Mountain
  • Acadia National Park
  • Copyright Undetermined
Eagle Lake and Cadillac Mountain
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Frenchman’s Bay from Cadillac Mountain Road
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Landscape
  • Places, Ocean
  • Places, Road
  • Acadia National Park
  • Copyright Undetermined
Frenchman’s Bay from Cadillac Mountain Road
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Ocean Drive from Otter Cliffs
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Landscape
  • Places, Mountain
  • Places, Road
  • Acadia National Park
  • Copyright Undetermined
Ocean Drive from Otter Cliffs
Southwest Harbor Public Library