Description: ...Desert, Tremont and Southwest Harbor nearly all the voters have signed the petitions while in the town of Eden [BarHarbor] more than half of the voters...numerous accidents that have already occurred here through the use of autos furnish a good specimen of what would happen were their use more common." - The Bar...Harbor Record, December 30, 1908, quoted in the BarHarbor Times, “Times Past” column by Deborah Dyer, January 1, 2009 See SWHPL 7484 for a photograph...of Simeon "Sim" Holden Mayo breaking the rules and driving his automobile in BarHarbor in 1908...
Description: ...Seth Sprague Thornton, is leaving Southwest Harbor at Steamboat Wharf for her home in Houlton, Maine...Nell would have travelled by steamship from SWH by way of BarHarbor to meet the Maine Central Railroad at Hancock Point...