Description: ..."Harbor View Motel, Southwest Harbor, Maine 04679, On ocean front - twelve modern, soundproof motel units - continental breakfasts in season - four housekeeping...“Soon Announcing… The Opening of New Harbor View Motel, Southwest Harbor” - Advertisement, BarHarbor Times, April 22, 1954...
Description: ...“Summer tourists who enter Mount Desert by the way of South-west Harbor are liable to receive very unfavorable impressions of this beautiful island...By crossing the harbor to the Ocean House, the view of the mountains may indeed be regained, yet the prospect from the east side is tame.” - Rambles in...
File Attachment: Steamboat Wharf at Southwest Harbor.pdf …Business History Steamboat Wharf at Southwest Harbor Address: 184 Clark Point Road City: Southwest Harbor State: Maine Map and Lot: Map 4 Lot 35-1 …the night at Deacon Clark's and taking an all-day ride by team to BarHarbor where a resident of that town gave them hospitable treatment for a few days …Desert in the early 1850s next to Steamboat Wharf in Southwest Harbor and then moved to what is now Bass Harbor in 1889. …when the summer tourists began to come to Mount Desert in great numbers and every boat in early summer brought crowds of passengers for Southwest and Bar
File Attachment: SWH High School - Freeman Grammar School.pdf …School History Freeman Grammar School Southwest Harbor High School Harbor House Address: 329 Main Street City: Southwest Harbor State: Maine Map and Lot …Stanley" "In 1906 the Southwest Harbor schoolhouse was sold to George Harmon of BarHarbor who bought the adjoining lot to the south, moved the building …When the high school at Southwest Harbor, later the Harbor House building, was first constructed it was smaller than it appears today. …Harbor school building.
Description: ...In 2017 this was the site of the BarHarbor Bank and Trust Building...
File Attachment: Danforth Marcyes House.pdf …George Arthur Neal House Address: 314 Main Street City: Southwest Harbor State: Maine Map: Map 6 Lot 45 First Owner: Marcyes - Danforth Pond Marcyes …He was in charge of the Custom House here for a long time, moving to BarHarbor when his duties there were over. His son-in-law, James J. …Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 147 - 1938.
Description: ...According to Robert Leland, father of Patti Leland of Trenton, in 1849 this house was moved to its present location at 945 BarHarbor Road, Map 19 – Lot...6 from about a quarter of a mile closer to Mount Desert Island (probably near 1007 BarHarbor Road, Map 15 – Lot 16)...The BarHarbor Road has been widened so the house now lies closer to the road, although it is more difficult to see as trees have grown up around it...
Description: ...Higgin's father, Fenelon Higgins of BarHarbor is foreman of the work." Vol...I - History of Southwest Harbor – Oct. 16, 1921 to Jan. 9, 1924, #354, Pg. 94, August 8, 1923...
File Attachment: Howe D. Higgins House.pdf …House History Howe Dwain Higgins House ME SWH Clark Point Road - 086 Address: 86 Clark Point Road City: Southwest Harbor State: Maine Map and …- Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 175.
Description: ...." - “The Story of BarHarbor – An Informal History Recording One Hundred and Fifty Years In the Life of a Community,” by Richard Walden Hale, Jr., Ives...
File Attachment: Jesup Memorial Library.pdf …Desert Street City: BarHarbor State: Maine Map and Lot: Map 104 Lot 433 NRHP: 91000323 Date Original Library Founded: 1875 Benefactor: Maria Van Antwerp …in 1875 by summer visitors who left their books for winter use, and clubbed together to get the services of a part-time librarian." - The Story of Bar …Harbor An Informal History Recording One Hundred and Fifty Years In the Life of a Community, by Richard Walden Hale, Jr., Ives Washburn, Inc., …BarHarbor Record, undated, 1911. The Jesup Memorial Library was dedicated on August 30, 1911. The Right Rev.