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Bar Harbor Casino
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Structures, Other Structures
  • Bar Harbor
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Bar Harbor Casino
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Bar Harbor Bank & Trust Company and United States Post Office in the John Lawler Commercial Building
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Other Structures
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1954-08-08
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright
Description:
...On the left side is the Bar Harbor Banking & Trust Company - Southwest Harbor Branch...On the right side (to the right of the Post Office box is The United States Post Office at Southwest Harbor..."The Salisbury building which now houses the local branch of the Bar Harbor Banking and Trust Company, the post office and a plumbing shop, was built by...Salisbury in 1933-4." - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S...
Cranberry Isles Life Saving Station
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Organizations
  • Structures, Other Structures
  • Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Cranberry Isles Life Saving Station
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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...In 1937, the Southwest Harbor complex was created and used as a lighthouse depot by the U.S. Light House Service...By 1945, the Coast Guard Station on Little Cranberry Island was moved to the facility in Southwest Harbor.” - “Sector Field Office (SFO) Southwest Harbor..., Southwest Harbor, Maine – History,” United States Coast Guard site, 06/28/13, Accessed online 07/20/10; http://www.uscg.mil/d1/sfoSouthwestHarbor/history.asp...


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US LIFE-SAVING - CRANBERRY ISLES.pdf
…In 1937, the Southwest Harbor complex was created and used as a lighthouse depot by the U.S. Light House Service. …By 1945, the Coast Guard Station on Little Cranberry Island was moved to the facility in Southwest Harbor. …Sector Field Office (SFO) Southwest Harbor, Southwest Harbor, Maine History, United States Coast Guard site, 06/28/13, Accessed online 07/20/10; …Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 284-285.
Masonic Hall
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Structures, Other Structures
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Masonic Hall
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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....” - Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton p. 151 - 1938...The Old Masonic Hall, then known as Tremont Hall, appears in the History of the Southwest Harbor Public Library in 1895...stores in the basement of the Masonic Hall where he was in business until failing health forced him to retire.” - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor...The lodge members renamed the building, raised it, and rebuilt the first and second floors to achieve the building shown here. – See the Bar Harbor Times...
Try House at Try House Point, Bernard
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Structures, Other Structures
  • Tremont, Bernard
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Try House at Try House Point, Bernard
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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...He built a try house on a point of land at the mouth of the harbor and used his ship and crew for hunting whales in the surrounding waters, particularly...The try house at Bass Harbor was run by Benson from the time it was built until the process was discontinued...He was called “Little Ben.” - “MDI's Short Lived Whaling Industry Began In Bass Harbor” by LaRue Spiker appeared in the Bar Harbor Times on November 3,...Earll, a shore-fishery was begun and successfully prosecuted for a number of years, from Prospect Harbor, in Frenchman's Bay, Maine...
Odd Fellows Hall
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Structures, Other Structures
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Odd Fellows Hall
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Odd Fellows Hall.pdf
…Organization History Odd Fellows Lodge and Hall Address: 357 Main Street City: Southwest Harbor State: Maine Map and Lot Number: Map 3 Lot 95 Map: …SAN 1921 ODD FELLOWS Founded: 1895 Build Date: 1897 Destroyed by Fire: 1922 Rebuilt: 1923 "The Odd Fellows lodge was organized in Southwest Harbor …Fuller and Alvah Rich joined at Bar Harbor to make the necessary number for the formation of the new lodge. …It was rebuilt the following year." - Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S.
Jackson Laboratory
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Businesses, Other Business
  • Structures, Other Structures
  • Bar Harbor
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Jackson Laboratory
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Originally the site of Robin Hood Park
The Ocean House, Eden
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Structures, Other Structures
  • Bar Harbor, Eden
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
The Ocean House, Eden
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Public Gets Rare Glimpse at Historic Acadia Gatekeeper’s Home
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Structures, Other Structures
  • Trotter - Bill Trotter
  • 2012-12-17
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
An account of a rare open house at one of the two Gate Lodges in Acadia National Park.


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Jordan_Pond_Gate_Lodge.pdf
…It and another built near Northeast Harbor on Route 198 are the only two such gate houses in Acadia. …national park dates to 1916, when President Woodrow Wilson established the 6,000acre Sieur de Monts National Monument not far from the downtown village of BarHarbor. …According to Anne Funderburk, a Seal Harbor resident with extensive knowledge of the village s history, Rockefeller went to great lengths to have the
The Mill Race at Schooner Head
Waterfall at Schooner Head
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Other Structures
  • Allen - Edward Lowe Allen (c. 1830-1914)
  • 1865 c.
  • Bar Harbor, Eden
  • No Copyright - United States
The Mill Race at Schooner Head
Waterfall at Schooner Head
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Stereograph sometimes listed as "Waterfall at Schooner Head" and other times as "Mill Race at Schooner Head", Probably at the William Lynam Homestead, Eden, Maine.
Isaac H. Dupee's Photographic Tent at the Ocean House, Eden, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Stereograph
  • Structures, Other Structures
  • Dupee - Isaac H. Dupee (1826-1875)
  • 1870 c.
  • Bar Harbor, Eden
  • No Copyright - United States