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| Bar Harbor Days Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  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 |
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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... | ||
| Bowdoin Cottage being built in Bar Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Bowdoin Cottage being built in Bar Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Newspaper article about the Bowdoin Cottage, known as La Rochelle, when it was being constructed on West Street in Bar Harbor in 1902... File Attachments: bar-harbor-record-Jul-16-1902-p-1.pdf …NEWPORT OOTTAGEi BAR HARBOR. …T h e Bar Harbor firms connected with the building are A. E . Lawrence, the carpenter and painter, and George Wescott, the mason, E. B. …She will ba at the Whittington cottage Bar Harbor Record, Bar Harbor, Maine, US July 16, 1902, Page 1 https://newspaperarchive.com/bar-harbor-record-jul …Bar Harbor, Maine. C E O R C E L. S T E B B I N S , Cottages foi Rent. Bowdoin Cottage.pdf …The article that follows appeared on page 1 of the July 16, 1902 issue of the Bar Harbor Record. …BOWDOIN COTTAGE Brick Cottage Being Constructed on West Street The past winter and spring have seen a large number of cottages finished and begun in Bar …Harbor, and the buildings have all been on a more elaborate scale than ever before. …The Bar Harbor firms connected with the building are A. E. Lawrence, the carpenter and painter, and George Wescott, the mason, E. B. | ||
| 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... | ||
| Building Demolition Changes SWH Landscape Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Building Demolition Changes SWH Landscape Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Bar Harbor Times, October 23, 1986... | |
| The Kellams Rowed Their Dory, Tracing An Island Story Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Kellams Rowed Their Dory, Tracing An Island Story Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...The Bar Harbor Times, February 2, 2011... File Attachment: Kellam_-_Kellam_Dory_-_02-02-11.pdf …From Bernard boat builder Clifton Rich, they bought the dory that would serve as their vehicle for the runs they made to Bass Harbor to pick up supplies …The dory will be an outdoor display at the society s Country Store Museum in Bass Harbor, said the society s president Muriel Davisson. …Nan would later use the analogy of two black bears converging on the same hollow tree that harbored a honeycomb. …The Bar Harbor Times, February 2, 2011. | |
| Traditions and records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Traditions and records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine Southwest Harbor Public Library 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... File Attachment: 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. | |
| Has Come Here for 68 Summers: A.L. Higgins Tells of Henry Rand's First Visits Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Has Come Here for 68 Summers: A.L. Higgins Tells of Henry Rand's First Visits Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Bar Harbor Times clipping--A.L. Higgins tells of the Rands coming to Eden circa 1866... | ||
| Sleeping Homecomers Victims of Rear-end Collision Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Sleeping Homecomers Victims of Rear-end Collision Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Describes the crash of the Bar Harbor Express and the White Mountain Express on Sept. 2, 1913. 21 people were killed and 50 were injured... | ||
| Advertisement for Mrs. Tom Thumb Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Advertisement for Mrs. Tom Thumb Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...In this advertisement, the newspaper misprinted her name as Gevena in the announcement for her visit to Bar Harbor in 1896... | ||
| Mount Desert Views 1884 Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  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... | ||
| Museum Traces Island's History - Abbe Museum Blends Ruth Moore Poetry With Great Gott Island Artifacts Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Museum Traces Island's History - Abbe Museum Blends Ruth Moore Poetry With Great Gott Island Artifacts Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Bar Harbor - When the archaeologists of summer probe the fragile layers of Great Gott Island history, they say the faint bark of an Indian dog is freed... File Attachment: MOORE GOTT ARCHEOL - 05-28-94.pdf …Museum Traces Island's History Abbe Museum Blends Ruth Moore Poetry With Great Gott Island Artifacts By Kathy Harbour The Bangor Daily News, May 28, 1994 Bar …Harbor - When the archaeologists of summer probe the fragile layers of Great Gott Island history, they say the faint bark of an Indian dog is freed. …The museum is located at Sieur de Monts Spring, off Route 3 between Bar Harbor and Otter Creek, and is open daily 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. | |
| 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 | |||
| Obituary for Chester E. Clement Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Obituary for Chester E. Clement Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Clement of Southwest Harbor, aged about sixty, died at the Mount Desert hospital at Bar Harbor late Saturday afternoon from the effects of an automobile...Neal from Southwest Harbor and also aid from a garage... | ||
| 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 Stanleys of Cranberry Isles…and Other Colorful Characters. Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Stanleys of Cranberry Isles…and Other Colorful Characters. Southwest Harbor Public Library 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... File Attachment: 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. | |
| Obituary of Nettie C. (Allen) Higgins Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Obituary of Nettie C. (Allen) Higgins Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| 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 | ||
| Eagle's Perch Tea House Advertisement Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Eagle's Perch Tea House Advertisement Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Eagle's Perch Tea House at the Edward Sumner Macomber Cottage | |
| Fire, Obliteration, Mission 66, and Park Trails Program, 1943-2003 Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Fire, Obliteration, Mission 66, and Park Trails Program, 1943-2003 Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Excerpt from Pathmakers: Cultural Landscape Report for the Historic Hiking Trail System of Mount Desert Island, pgs. 149-156 File Attachment: 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. | |
| The Coit Excursion Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Coit Excursion Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: An account of the third “Coit Family” steamer excursion from Worcester, Massachusetts, this third trip does not seem to have involved the family though known by their name as they had started the excursions in earlier years. Descriptions of stops made by the steamer were written by various authors. File Attachment: Coit_Excursion_1870.pdf …His description of his visit to Bar Harbor is clear and his style delightful. American House, Belfast, Me., August 4, 1870. …South West Harbor is in Tremont. Bar Harbor, our stopping place, and the favorite resort, is in Eden. …Bar Harbor takes its name from a sand-bar at its head, across which the high tide swells, but along which at low water one may walk or drive to Bar Island …The cosy harbor is protected by forbidding names. | ||
| Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 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. | |
| Sawyer's Market 60th Anniversary Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Sawyer's Market 60th Anniversary Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: An 8 page supplement to the Mount Desert Islander dated October 2006. File Attachment: Market - Sawyer 60 - 2006.pdf …Bar Harbor, ME 04609 news@mdlslander.com www.mdlslander.com (doncyratuiationd to 'dd )on and Id/ary. lAJorcedter and ddricin and dddcott lAJorcester …One by one, the other stores folded, as people became more mobile and larger stores - the new supermarkets - were built in Ellsworth and Bar Harbor …Congratulations on 60 years of service to Southwest Harbor and surrounding commmunities From your friends at FIRST A Better Way to Bank Bar Harbor Blue …Another expansion took place in the late 1990s, when the market took over an adjacent space vacated by Bar Harbor Bank & Trust. | ||
| George Bucknam Dorr - the Father of Acadia National Park Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  George Bucknam Dorr - the Father of Acadia National Park Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2012-05-04 George Bucknam Dorr - the Father of Acadia National Park.pdf …Dorr Courtesy: ANP-NPS years later they built their Bar Harbor summer home, which they named Oldfarm, on 90 acres at Compass Harbor. …The property's entrance is a mile south of the Bar Harbor village green.*1 Dorr was a horticulturalist and in 1896 he established the Mount Desert Nurseries …His estate gave Bar Harbor's Jesup Memorial Library $12,865.63 and equal amounts of $6,432.81 to the HCTPR and the Abbe Museum of Bar Harbor. | |
| Atwater Kent - Inventor, Industrialist and Philanthropist Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Atwater Kent - Inventor, Industrialist and Philanthropist Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2016-12-26 Atwater Kent - Inventor, Industrialist and Philanthropist.pdf …It was installed in 1946 on the Schooner Head Path, south of downtown Bar Harbor, ME and just beyond High Seas, the former home of pathmaker and Princeton …While a summer resident of Bar Harbor, Kent owned the former Frederick Vanderbilt s estate, Sonogee, and the Robert Abbe estate, Brookend, off Eden Street …Among his other holdings were Long Porcupine and The Hop, two islands off Bar Harbor in Frenchman Bay. |