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1947 Bar Harbor Fire
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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1947 Bar Harbor Fire
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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1947 Bar Harbor Fire.pdf
…the Bar Harbor, Maine Fire Department received a call from a Mrs. …Written by an historian who was on the scene for the 1947 Bar Harbor Fire. …Bar Harbor: A Town Almost Lost A Pictorial Essay of Bar Harbor s Mansions Before and After the Fire of 1947 by Deborah M. …Dyer, maps courtesy of Arthur Corliss, Bar Harbor Historical Society, Bar Harbor, Maine, 2008. Author: Charlotte R. Morrill Date: 2016
1922 Southwest Harbor Fire
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Southwest Harbor
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1922 Southwest Harbor Fire
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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...Main Street in Southwest Harbor was devastated by fire on March 27, 1922...Newspaper accounts of the fire reported estimated losses of $150,000 and that the Southwest Harbor Volunteer Fire Company, “did remarkable work, considering...Bar Harbor and Northeast Harbor firemen also responded, but the roads were considerably different from today and it took the Bar Harbor department, “four...“Had the roads been in anything like fair condition it is the unanimous opinion that the truck from Bar Harbor would have been able to save the Odd Fellows...
The Dollar Social at Southwest Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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The Dollar Social at Southwest Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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...In 1892 the ladies of Southwest Harbor gathered together to raise money for land upon which to build a library building and then reported how they raised...their dollar..The Dollar Social was the first fundraising event held for the Southwest Harbor Public Library and the poem describing it was famous in...


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The Dollar Social at Southwest Harbor.pdf
…The Dollar Social At Southwest Harbor The Southwest Harbor Public library was founded in 1884. …Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 115. …"The Dollar Social At Southwest Harbor" describes how each woman earned her dollar. …Tracy, our Republican friend, took a bribe, I'm sorry to state, For her husband promised her a dollar if she would help him illuminate, So she sacrificed bar
4th of July Celebration, Southwest Harbor, July 3, 1895
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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...The first feature of the day was the band concert given the Southwest Harbor band, assisted by Lindall’s band of Boston and Bar Harbor, at the rustic little...In the afternoon after the band concert the ball game between Northeast Harbor and Bar Harbor nines was called, in the field near the Union church...To the Bar Harbor people there was nothing pleasanter for the day than the sail back and forth on the [steamer] Golden Rod. Capt....” – The Bar Harbor Record, July 6, 1895...
The Mayflower and Mount Desert Island
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Stanley - Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021)
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The Mayflower and Mount Desert Island
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Ralph Stanley has researched the people he knew on Mount Desert Island and their common ancestors who were Mayflower passengers and their descendents.


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Pilgrims - The Mayflower and Mount Desert Island.pdf
…Eben Hamor in his History of Bar Harbor lists thirteen families from Eastham that were settled in Eden before 1779. …Israel Higgins took up land at Bar Harbor about 1771 and was living there with his wife and their son, Henry, then two years old. …branch of the Bar Harbor Banking and Trust Co. until she retired, Lawrence B. …Richardson, who now lives at Bar Harbor, Constance (Robbins) Stanley of Southwest Harbor and Jaylene Roths, former director of the Mount Desert Island
The Horse Show at Robin Hood Park
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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The Horse Show at Robin Hood Park
Southwest Harbor Public Library