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Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Structures, Transportation, Lighthouse
  • Maine
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Identifier:
  • swhpl-14221
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Structures, Transportation, Lighthouse
Place:
  • Maine
Description:
...Coast Guard has announced it will demolish the unmanned lighthouse which has stood on the breakwater at the entrance to Rockland Harbor since the beginning...The above photo was taken in 1904 when Captain Clifford Robbins of Southwest Harbor was the keeper...The 4300-foot breakwater, which protects Rockland Harbor from easterly storms, was eighteen years under construction and required 732,227 tons of stone...Lovering Robbins both died in Bar Harbor, Maine in 1967. Clifford's father, Howard P. Robbins was also a lighthouse keeper there. “Howard P...
A Cheese-shaped Building
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Structures, Commercial, Store
  • Sambides - Nick Sambides Jr.
  • 2019-01-09
  • Maine
  • In Copyright
A Cheese-shaped Building
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Identifier:
  • swhpl-15615
Type:
  • Publication, Literary, Article
Subject:
  • Structures, Commercial, Store
Creator:
  • Sambides - Nick Sambides Jr.
Publisher:
  • Bangor Daily News
Date:
  • 2019-01-09
Place:
  • Maine
Description:
A Bangor Daily News article about an urban legend hiding in plain sight.

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A cheese-shaped building BDN article.pdf
…has been here long enough to remember it still calls it The Cheese House, said Sargent, a sales manager across the road at Coastal Builders at 393 Bar …Harbor Road, the local name for that section of Route 3. …Competition from big-box grocery stores that added specialty cheeses to their delis helped push the store out of business, said Holly Macomber, a Bar Harbor …Courtesy of the Southwest Harbor Public Library Digital Archive.