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| Lost Bar Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Lost Bar Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...From the 1880s to the end of World War I, the fashionable resort of Bar Harbor attracted thousands of summer visitors with the money and leisure to pursue...Many relaxed at Bar Harbor's lavish hotels, while others built even more lavish and fanciful "cottages" for their own summer retreats...Eighty-six vanished summer palaces are pictured in Lost Bar Harbor...Many never before published photographs from the Bar Harbor Historical Society are supplemented by lively text describing the estates and their colorful... | ||
| Bygone Bar Harbor - A Postcard Tour of Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Bygone Bar Harbor - A Postcard Tour of Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Together, the pictures and text evoke the spirit of the Golden Age of Bar Harbor, with all the accoutrements of the rich and famous robber barons who summered...the fabulous grand hotels; people in period dress in leisure pursuits; and the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1947, as well as views of the town and harbor... | ||
| Select Wooden Boat and Down East Magazines Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Select Wooden Boat and Down East Magazines Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Clippings from issues of Wooden Boat and Down East Magazines featuring boats and boatbuilders located in or near Southwest Harbor... File Attachment: accession-index-2060.pdf …Down East Magazine August 1974 feature on Southwest Harbor. …Down East Magazine October 1975 feature on Tom Schenk, artist living in Southwest Harbor. …Down East Magazine June 1973 feature on Bar Harbor s famous Cottages. Down East Magazine July 1969 feature on old Bar Harbor. …PO Box 157, Southwest Harbor, ME 04679 ~ www.swhplibrary.net ~ archivist@swhplibrary.org | |||
| Maine Cottages: Fred L. Savage and the Architecture of Mount Desert Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Maine Cottages: Fred L. Savage and the Architecture of Mount Desert Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...The stream of tourists that began traveling to the island after the Civil War prompted a building boom of cottages, hotels, and various buildings in Bar...Harbor and other towns in the vicinity... | ||
| The Revenue Man - Catching Smugglers During Prohibition Was Tough Work Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Revenue Man - Catching Smugglers During Prohibition Was Tough Work Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 14997.pdf …His records, from which much of the following is taken, show that he sometimes walked from Southwest Harbor to Somesville and Bar Harbor. …to several Bar Harbor summer residents, namely a Miss Coles, Arthur C. …In one of his letters, Inspector Higgins wrote that Bar Harbor had more bootleggers and rumrunners than any other town in the county. …Higgins felt like a wanted man and carried a revolver as it was rumored that the Bar Harbor rumrunners had contracted with someone in Boston to take him | ||
| The Mayflower and Mount Desert Island Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Mayflower and Mount Desert Island Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Ralph Stanley has researched the people he knew on Mount Desert Island and their common ancestors who were Mayflower passengers and their descendents. File Attachment: 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 | |
| Dix - Holden - Boathouse Site - Mary Jones House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Dix - Holden - Boathouse Site - Mary Jones House Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Dix - Holden - Boathouse Site - Mary Jones House.pdf …The Dix / Holden Boathouse Site 143 Harbor Drive (Route 102A) Map 13 Lot 9 Tremont, Maine 1837 - John Verrill (1808-1883), the father of Almira T. …All the doors in the remodeled house came from either a pile stored in an old barn in Bass Harbor or from Seagull House in Seal Cove. …Jones Builds Her Dream House by Nan Lincoln, The Bar Harbor Times, April 4, 1998. | |||
| Edith Hamilton Lanman, Newspaper Article Written by LaRue Spiker Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Edith Hamilton Lanman, Newspaper Article Written by LaRue Spiker Southwest Harbor Public Library |