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Lost Bar Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Helfrich - Helfrich, G. F
  • O'Neil - Gladys O'Neil
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Lost Bar Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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...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...
Traditions and records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Carroll - Nellie Rebecca (Carroll) Thornton (1871-1958)
  • 1938
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...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.