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Eastern State Normal School Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Organizations, School Institution	Maine	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Eastern State Normal School Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-13586 Type: Reference Subject: Organizations, School Institution Place: Maine
Maine Central Institute Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Organizations, School Institution Structures, Institutional, School	Maine	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Maine Central Institute Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-12966 Type: Reference Subject: Organizations, School Institution Structures, Institutional, School Place: Maine
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 Identifier: swhpl-13228 Type: Reference Subject: Organizations Structures, Other Structures Place: Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford Description: "The first Coast Guard presence in the Mt. Desert Island area was a Life Saving Station located on Little Cranberry Island, established by an act of congress on June 18th, 1878. 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. [show more]
US Life-Saving Service Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Organizations		In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	US Life-Saving Service Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-15048 Type: Reference Subject: Organizations Description: In 1878 the network of life saving stations were formally organized as a separate agency of the Treasury Department and was named the Life-Saving Service. The US Life-Saving Service grew out of a network of coast watching stations established to provide assistance and shore rescue to disabled ships in the mid-19th century, but did not become formally established until 1871, when it came under the direction of Sumner Increase Kimball (1834-1923) of Lebanon, Maine. Kimball reorganized the service, built many new stations with up-to-date equipment, established rigorous training and certification programs for stationmasters and surfmen, and set high standards for the Life-Saving Service. He continued to serve as the Director of the U.S. Life-Saving Service until it was absorbed by the U.S. Coast Guard in 1915. [show more]
Gotts Island Methodist Church Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Organizations, Religious Structures, Ceremonial, Church	Tremont, Great Gott Island	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Gotts Island Methodist Church Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-14915 Type: Reference Subject: Organizations, Religious Structures, Ceremonial, Church Place: Tremont, Great Gott Island
West Tremont School Cornerstone Baptist Church Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Organizations, Religious Organizations, School Institution Structures, Ceremonial, Church Structures, Institutional, School	Tremont, West Tremont	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	West Tremont School Cornerstone Baptist Church Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-14920 Type: Reference Subject: Organizations, Religious Organizations, School Institution Structures, Ceremonial, Church Structures, Institutional, School Place: Tremont, West Tremont Description: The Cornerstone Baptist Church was founded on March 16, 1952 in a farmhouse across from Seal Cove Pond that later became Seal Cove Farm, with ten members. The pastor was Rev. George Wood. In 1953 the little congregation paid $16,000 to buy the old West Tremont Schoolhouse. They added a Sunday school wing in the 1960s.
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Organizations, Civic		In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	The Works Progress Administration (WPA) Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-14852 Type: Reference Subject: Organizations, Civic Description: The Works Progress Administration (renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration; WPA was the largest and most ambitious New Deal agency, employing millions of unemployed people (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads. In much smaller but more famous projects the WPA employed musicians, artists, writers, actors and directors in large arts, drama, media, and literacy projects. [show more]
Southwest Harbor Police Department Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Organizations, Civic	Southwest Harbor	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Southwest Harbor Police Department Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-14687 Type: Reference Subject: Organizations, Civic Place: Southwest Harbor
Somesville School Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Organizations, School Institution	Mount Desert, Somesville	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Somesville School Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-14628 Type: Reference Subject: Organizations, School Institution Place: Mount Desert, Somesville Description: In 2017, the school building was occupied by condos.
Somesville Library Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Organizations, Civic, Public Library	Mount Desert, Somesville	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Somesville Library Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-14630 Type: Reference Subject: Organizations, Civic, Public Library Place: Mount Desert, Somesville Description: "The public library stands on the site where a building owned by A. C Fernald and used as an undertaker's shop and for the post-office was burned by lightning in 1891 with considerable loss in money as well as property. The land is owned by Mrs. George A. Somes and is leased to the library association, who built the present library in 1895-6." - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 265. [show more]
Methodist Church - Northeast Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Organizations, Religious	Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Methodist Church - Northeast Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-14631 Type: Reference Subject: Organizations, Religious Place: Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Old Marsh School Head of the Harbor School Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Organizations, School Institution		In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Old Marsh School Head of the Harbor School Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-14620 Type: Reference Subject: Organizations, School Institution Description: The “Old Marsh School,” officially known as the “District 6” school, and was discontinued many years before it was torn down in 1936.
Order of the Eastern Star Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Organizations, Civic		In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Order of the Eastern Star Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-14624 Type: Reference Subject: Organizations, Civic Description: A fraternal order open to both men and women related to Freemasonry. There appear to have been chapter in Tremont and Portland
Harvard University Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Organizations, School Institution	New England	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Harvard University Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-14150 Type: Reference Subject: Organizations, School Institution Place: New England
Hall Quarry School Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Organizations, School Institution	Mount Desert, Hall Quarry	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Hall Quarry School Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-13955 Type: Reference Subject: Organizations, School Institution Place: Mount Desert, Hall Quarry Description: The Hall Quarry School was on the north corner of Hall Quarry Road and Musetti Drive, now [2017] a vacant lot.
Southwest Harbor Schoolhouse Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Organizations, School Institution	Southwest Harbor	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Southwest Harbor Schoolhouse Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-13681 Type: Reference Subject: Organizations, School Institution Place: Southwest Harbor Description: The one room schoolhouse used from 1862 to 1906. "[The Free High School, built c. 1862] was still a one-room school with but one teacher and every year more students came to study. The interests of the widely separated parts of the town were so different that it was impossible to come to an agreement and when the building of a new schoolhouse was suggested it was impossible to agree on a new location. Finally, when the Southwest Harbor citizens demanded new buildings at the village and at Manset, those in the western part of the town decided to separate themselves from Southwest Harbor. This was agreed upon by both sides and the town of Southwest Harbor was incorporated February 21, 1905 [this dividing the Southwest Harbor area from Tremont.] The new town voted to build a new schoolhouse at the village and raised the sum of $4500 to do so. This sum included the purchase of additional land. The old building stood close to the main road and had but little land surrounding it, and the new one was to be set farther back with a playground in front of it. The old building was sold to George Harmon and moved to the lot south of the school lot where it is now used for stores and apartments." The Harmon Block at 339 Main Street. - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 84-85 & p. 148 - 1938 [show more]
Bernard School West Bass Harbor School Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Organizations, School Institution	Tremont, Bernard	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Bernard School West Bass Harbor School Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-13624 Type: Reference Subject: Organizations, School Institution Place: Tremont, Bernard
Norwood Cove School Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Organizations, School Institution	Southwest Harbor	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Norwood Cove School Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-13411 Type: Reference Subject: Organizations, School Institution Place: Southwest Harbor Description: Nell Thornton, who attended this school, says, "The schoolhouse lot was purchased of William Thomas Holmes (1829-1910) on March 27, 1860, and the building erected that year to take the place of the old one which stood opposite Mr. John F. Young's house." - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 132-133. (See Thornton, p. 130-131 for an account of an earlier school at Norwood Cove, which stood at the south corner of Main Street & Fernald Point Road. That land is now part of the Causeway Club.) "In 1913 the school at Norwood's Cove was abolished and since that time the pupils have attended the schools at the village. Throughout the years this school district maintained a high rank of scholarship and many earnest and gifted teachers have taught in the little building, which was painted yellow with white trimmings and for equipment had a large desk for the teacher, a chair, one or two maps and part of the time a water pail and tin dipper." In 1923 Allston Sargent (1875-1944) of East Orange, New Jersey, bought the school property from the Town of Southwest Harbor. (HRD 584/14). The deed, dated November 6, 1923, says that the lot is 1/5 acre together with the building thereon formerly used as a school house. The school building was razed in 1937 by Lawrence S. Robinson (1897-1980), who recycled the lumber for an addition to his house at 28 Fernald Point Road, Map 9 - Lot 28. The Robinson house has since been razed. In 1946 Robinson's sister, Esther M. (Robinson) Hynes (1901-1983) and her husband, Cecil E. Hynes bought the property and built a summer cottage on it. It was sold out of the family until 1980 when Lawrence Robinson's daughter, Joan (Robinson) Terry and her husband, Wilbert Terry, purchased the property and made it their year round home. [show more]
Manset School Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Organizations, School Institution	Southwest Harbor, Manset	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Manset School Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-13412 Type: Reference Subject: Organizations, School Institution Place: Southwest Harbor, Manset Description: “The school house was built in 1901, replacing one built on the same site about 1860.” - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 183.
Champlain Society's Camp Pemetic Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Organizations Places, Camp	Mount Desert	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Champlain Society's Camp Pemetic Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-13305 Type: Reference Subject: Organizations Places, Camp Place: Mount Desert Description: The camp was located on the bluff above Wasgatt Cove "on the east side of Some's Sound, a little to the north of the house of Mr. Asa Smallidge, and opposite Flying Mountain and the cliff of Dog Mountain on the western side of the Sound." "Charles [Eliot] did not know just where he would pitch the camp, but expected to find a suitable and central place somewhere between Otter Creek and Seawall Point. So, after picking up the camp equipment at a house on Waukeag Neck, he cruised along that shore and went up into Somes Sound and anchored in what we now call Wasgatt's Cove on the eastern shore. There, above the gravel bank, was a bit of open meadow with a good spring at the back and just to the north of the brook which is the outlet of Hadlock Pond fell with a little waterfall into the cove." - "The Champlain Society" fragment of manuscript by Samuel Atkins Eliot, 1931 - in the collection of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society. See also: "Charles Eliot, Landscape Architect, A Lover Of Nature And Of His Kind, Who Trained Himself For A New Profession, Practised It Happily And Through It Wrought Much Good," p. 26. [show more]
Manset Union Church Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Organizations, Religious Structures, Ceremonial, Church	Southwest Harbor, Manset	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Manset Union Church Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-13269 Type: Reference Subject: Organizations, Religious Structures, Ceremonial, Church Place: Southwest Harbor, Manset
McKinley School Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Organizations, School Institution	Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	McKinley School Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-13257 Type: Reference Subject: Organizations, School Institution Place: Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley Description: The building is now divided into condominiums
Center School Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Organizations, School Institution	Tremont, Center	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Center School Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-13223 Type: Reference Subject: Organizations, School Institution Place: Tremont, Center Description: Located at the corner of Cape and Turner (Cross) Roads in Center.
American Legion and Auxiliary, Eugene M. Norwood Post 69 Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Organizations, Civic Structures, Other Structures	Southwest Harbor	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	American Legion and Auxiliary, Eugene M. Norwood Post 69 Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-13197 Type: Reference Subject: Organizations, Civic Structures, Other Structures Place: Southwest Harbor Description: The Naval Radio Station was established at Seawall in September, 1942. It was disestablished in 1951. Between 1951 and 1953 the government transferred the building to the American Legion and Auxiliary, Eugene M. Norwood Post 69, Southwest Harbor. The building was then moved to 22 Village Green Way, Map 6 – Lot 40, Southwest Harbor. The building has been enlarge twice since it was moved to its present location.
James M. Parker G.A.R. Post #105 Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Organizations, Civic		In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	James M. Parker G.A.R. Post #105 Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-3595 Type: Reference Subject: Organizations, Civic Description: The Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) was a veterans organization formed at the end of the Civil War. It reached peak membership by 1890, with over 400,000 members, with many prominent veterans, including five presidents. The organization had three objectives: Fraternity, charity, and loyalty. The principle legacy of the G.A.R. is the observation of Decoration Day, now known as Memorial Day, on May 30th.

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