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Bar Harbor Days
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Book
  • Places
  • Cary - Constance (Cary) Harrison (1843-1920)
  • 1887
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Bar Harbor Days
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
...“Bar Harbor Days” by Mrs. Burton Harrison with illustrations by Fenn and Hyde was published by Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, New York, 1887...
Lost Bar Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Book
  • Places, Town
  • Helfrich - Helfrich, G. F
  • O'Neil - Gladys O'Neil
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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
  • Publication, Book
  • Places
  • Brechlin - Earl Brechlin
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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...
Traditions and records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Book
  • People
  • Places, Town
  • Carroll - Nellie Rebecca (Carroll) Thornton (1871-1958)
  • 1938
  • In Copyright
Description:
...Nellie Carroll Thornton descended from early settlers of Southwest Harbor and was related, in one way or another, to practically all of her neighbors...Nellie was the author of the SWH social column in the Bar Harbor Times from c. 1921 until c. 1958...Traditions and records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton (Nellie C...It was reproduced in 1988 by the Southwest Harbor Public Library and digitized in 2010...


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Thornton - Traditions and Records SWH.pdf
…Purington of Bar Harbor and prayer by Rev. …The first message sent over the telegraph line from Bar Harbor to Bangor was "From the Mayor of Bar Harbor to the Mayor of Bangor Eden sends a telegraphic …., borrowed a boat of a neighbor and started for Bar Harbor. …Bar Harbor in the eighteen eighties.
Mount Desert Views 1884
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Book
  • Places
  • 1884
  • No Known Copyright
Mount Desert Views 1884
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
...Bar Harbor from Summit of Green Mountain 2. Great Head and Newport Sands 3. Schooner Head 4. Green Mountain Railway, 500 Feet Grade 5...The Boulder, Bar Harbor 8. Steamer Mount Desert 9. Green Mountain Railway Station at Base of Green Mountain 10...Bar Harbor...
The Stanleys of Cranberry Isles…and Other Colorful Characters.
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Book
  • People
  • Places, Island
  • Stanley - Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021)
  • 2017-07-09
  • In Copyright
Description:
...Ralph bears many titles and awards, but for the Southwest Harbor Public Library he is, most of all, a friend...To purchase the print version of this book please contact the Southwest Harbor Public Library at archivist@swhplibrary.org or (207) 244-7065...


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2021_The_Stanleys_of_Cranberry_Isles_2021-03-25.pdf
…The Bar Harbor Record reports that on June 21st, 1883, Capt. E. J. …The nearest stores were in Bar Harbor or Ellsworth. …Harbor Record Newspaper - microfilm at the Jesup Library, Bar Harbor, Maine Bar Harbor Times Newspaper - microfilm at the Jesup Library, Bar Harbor …Papers, Jesup Library, Bar Harbor, Maine Grondahl, Paul.
Fire, Obliteration, Mission 66, and Park Trails Program, 1943-2003
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Events, Fire
  • Places, Hiking Trail
  • Brown - Margaret Coffin Brown
  • Vekasi - Jim Vekasi
  • 2006
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Excerpt from Pathmakers: Cultural Landscape Report for the Historic Hiking Trail System of Mount Desert Island, pgs. 149-156


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Effects_of_the_1947_Fire.pdf
…However, as recorded in Bar Harbor or maintenance of the trails. …Norton had also been a member of the towards Hulls Cove and Bar Harbor and south over CCC trails crew at the Great [Long] Pond Camp. …For several years, Norm Walls and his crew divided their time between the NPS and the Bar Harbor VIA. …Path in Bar Harbor, a challenging task as the area was often hard-hit by winter storms.
Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Book
  • Places
  • Drake - Samuel Adams Drake
  • 1875
  • No Known Copyright
Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Drake - Nooks and Corners of the NE Coast.pdf
…At Somesville there is a comfortable hostel , but the larger summer hotels are at Bar Harbor and at South- west Harbor. …Soon after passing the bridge, that to Bar Harbor diverged to the left. …The roads from Bar Harbor and from North -east Harbor unite within a short distance of Somesville, and enter the village together. …Some handsome cottages have already sprung out of the prevailing ugli ness at Bar Harbor.
Mount Desert Island, and the Cranberry Isles.
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Book
  • People
  • Places, Island
  • Dodge - Ezra Herrick Dodge III (1848-1882)
  • 1871
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Mount Desert Island, and the Cranberry Isles.
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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DODGE_-_SAWYERS_-_MT._DESERT_ISLAND_-_1871_B.pdf
…Salsbury; Bar Harbor, l\[i-;s Reynold;;. The Steamer Lewiston, Ca11t. …Reynold.-; , Bar Harbor, East Eden. Teachers. Gideon 1\fa, o, Edgar W. iiiggins. …Desert) for Bar Harbor and South West Harbor. Freight Taken at Reasonable Rates. …SAUVEUR, , I BAR HARBOR, - - - - - - EAST EDEN. 1t1aine.
Chris's Pond: A Town's Memories are Etched in Ice
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Places
  • Lincoln - Nan Lincoln
  • 1989
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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Lawlor - Chris Pond.pdf
…Chris's Pond: A Town's Memories Are Etched In Ice by Nan Lincoln The Bar Harbor Times - January, 12, 1989 A cherry-cheeked child skitters by, her bright …Skating on Chris's Pond has been a cherished winter memory for Southwest Harbor residents for decades. …In summer Chris Lawlor would drain the pond by pulling a plug, allowing the stagnant water to run down the hill into Southwest Harbor. …Uncle Bill Something else is different about the little pond on a hill overlooking Southwest Harbor.