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| Drexel - Katharine Drexel (1858 - 1955) Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Drexel - Katharine Drexel (1858 - 1955) Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2017-03-17 A Saint in Bar Harbor.pdf …2017 Don Lenahan F r i d a y, M a r c h 1 7 , 2 0 1 7 A Saint in Bar Harbor Among the visitors to Bar Harbor, ME during summers surrounding 1900 was …Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament motherhouse Her association with Bar Harbor was tied to her sister Louise and brother-in-law Edward Morrell, who in 1897 …There is a memorial plaque to Edward Morrell on a large granite boulder in front of the Jackson Laboratory off Route 3 on the south side of Bar Harbor. …The former convent is now the site of the Bar Harbor Historical Society and the school is an apartment building. 2. | |
| The Curran Path - a Once Long and Lovely Walk Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Curran Path - a Once Long and Lovely Walk Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2012-06-10 The Curran Path - a Once Long and Lovely Walk.pdf …By 1896 Nicholas was the proprietor of a second Curran House, a small hotel on Main Street near the wharf in downtown Bar Harbor. …In 1902 Mary Curran, now a widow, sold the property to Frank Brewer, who sold it to the Bar Harbor Water Company in 1915. …Harbor's water supply. …It is interesting to note that Nicholas complained to the Bar Harbor Water Company in 1897 about the loss of his property shoreline due to the higher water | |
| Acadia National Park, Founded on Inspiration, Perseverance and Generosity Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Acadia National Park, Founded on Inspiration, Perseverance and Generosity Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2014-07-21 Acadia National Park, Founded on Inspiration, Perseverance and Generosity.pdf …In 1881 he established his summer home in Northeast Harbor. …in Bar Harbor a few years later. …An entrepreneurial graduate of Harvard, he launched a successful horticultural nursery and a granite quarrying business in Bar Harbor. …There are two peaks on its popular ridgeline, which overshadows downtown Bar Harbor's southwest flank. | |
| Acadia National Park's Discarded Sweet Waters of Acadia Slab Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Acadia National Park's Discarded Sweet Waters of Acadia Slab Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2012-12-03 Acadia National Park's Discarded Sweet Waters of Acadia Slab.pdf …In 1915 the Bar Harbor Times published that the Sieur de Monts Spring Company, a Maine corporation headed by George B. …One of these, Meadow Road, led from Bar Harbor's Ledgelawn Avenue, cutting straight through the swampy east side of Great Meadow. …Sieur de Monts Pool today *Footnotes: 1 GPS coordinates of the slab: N44 21.844' W068 12.251' 2 Bar Harbor Times, 9/18/1915; p. 1. 3 Bar Harbor Times | |
| Skiing on Mount Desert Island - a Look Back Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Skiing on Mount Desert Island - a Look Back Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2014-02-24 Skiing on Mount Desert Island -- a Look Back.pdf …This type of chancy skiing changed somewhat in 1936 with the establishment of a formal downhill enterprise on McFarland Hill in Bar Harbor. …McFarland Field today looking north to McFarland Hill *Footnotes: 1 These downhill venues are mentioned in numerous Bar Harbor Times articles of the MDI …from the summit to the Featherbed; and the old carriage road refers to the historic buckboard road that once ran from Eagle Lake Road to the summit. 2 Bar …Harbor Times, December 19, 1940, p.1. 3 Bar Harbor Times, September 12, 1940, p.1. 4 A special thanks to Messrs. | |
| Cushing - Sarah Eliza Sigourney Cushing (1832 - 1915) Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Cushing - Sarah Eliza Sigourney Cushing (1832 - 1915) Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2016-09-29 A Pleasant Perambulation.pdf …HIKERS: RUTH AND TRIS COLKET DECEMBER 1998 Philanthropists, they donated $5 million to Acadia Trails Forever, a joint project of Acadia National Park and Bar …Harbor-based Friends of Acadia to restore and maintain the park s historic trail system. …Ruth is a board member of the Maine Sea Coast Mission, a non-denominational Christian charity on West Street in Bar Harbor. …Saviour s Church in Bar Harbor. | |
| Start of FOA-Acadia NP's 2013 Volunteer Season Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Start of FOA-Acadia NP's 2013 Volunteer Season Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2013-04-25 Start of FOA-Acadia NP's 2013 Volunteer Season.pdf …The volunteers are under the aegis of Friends of Acadia, an independent nonprofit located in Bar Harbor, ME, with work projects selected by Acadia National …Kebo Brook Trail (purple) Strath Eden Path stone at trail junction A nice feature of the Kebo Brook Trail is its easy accessibility from downtown Bar …Harbor via the Great Meadow Loop Trail. …GPS location: N44 21.997' W068 12.765' 3 See blog post "A Memorial Walk: Bar Harbor to Sieur de Monts," dated June 24, 2012. | |
| 2013-11-01 Acadia National Park's Oceanfront Cottage Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  2013-11-01 Acadia National Park's Oceanfront Cottage Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2013-11-01 Acadia NP's Oceanfront Cottage.pdf …enlarged view This oceanfront building was a cottage belonging to Reverend Christopher Starr Leffingwell, a native Ohioan who became the first rector of Bar …Harbor's St. …Harbor. …Harbor Times, September 12, 1928, p. 3. 3 Because of Dorr's U.S. | |
| Unexpected Finds in a National Park Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Unexpected Finds in a National Park Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2014-04-21 Unexpected Finds in a National Park.pdf …(Higgins) Fitzgerrell (1811-1898) of Bar Harbor on July 28, 1839. …They had six children, three sons and three daughters, all born in Bar Harbor between 1840 and 1852. …Bar Harbor Times, December 3, 1919, p.4. 3 Newman grave GPS coordinates: N44 22.674' W068 15.473'. | |
| The Fire Lookouts of Acadia National Park Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Fire Lookouts of Acadia National Park Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2014-08-27 The Fire Lookouts of Acadia National Park.pdf …Explorers making a discovery *Footnotes: 1 Bar Harbor Times, April 14, 1949, p. 10. 2 Pathmakers, Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation, National …Support pins and an eyebolt still remain. 4 Bar Harbor Times, June 15, 1932, p. 2. 5 Armstrong Cork Corp. bought The Whitall Tatum Co. in 1938. …Hilton, Moosehead Communications, Greenville, ME. 1997. 7 Bar Harbor Times, October 16, 1936, p.1. | |
| Hiking the Trails of Acadia NP's Schoodic Peninsula Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Hiking the Trails of Acadia NP's Schoodic Peninsula Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2013-05-15 Hiking the Trails of Acadia NP's Schoodic Peninsula.pdf …National Park across Frenchman Bay that is off the beaten track for Park visitors to Mount Desert Island, as it is about a 48-mile, 75-minute drive from Bar …Harbor, ME. …Moore earlier had established the Grindstone Neck community in Winter Harbor as an optional wealthy enclave to those on Schoodic Head summit station benchmark …The site was the innovation of New Yorker and Bar Harbor summer resident Alessandro Fabbri, who established it in 1917 during WW I. | |
| The Magnificent and Mysterious Homans Path Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Magnificent and Mysterious Homans Path Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2012-04-20_The_Magnificent_and_Mysterious_Homans_Path.pdf …They lived at the "Homans Cottage" on property abutting the south side of the Schooner Head Overlook, 3.8 miles south of Bar Harbor's village green. …Charles died in Bar Harbor in 1886; Eliza died there 28 years later. Both are buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA. | |
| Acadia National Park's Little-Known Mountain Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Acadia National Park's Little-Known Mountain Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2014-06-04 Acadia National Park's Little-Known Mountain.pdf …In 1896 it was changed to "Dan Brewers Mt" on the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association's Bates-Rand-Jaques Path Map of the Eastern Part of Mount …In 1866 he built the first hotel on it, the Mountain House, overlooking Bar Harbor from its prominent 1530' summit. | |
| New Facts Concerning the Cross on Flying Mountain Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  New Facts Concerning the Cross on Flying Mountain Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2015-01-26 New Facts Concerning the Cross on Flying Mountain.pdf …Thanks to Hannah Stevens, archivist at the Northeast Harbor Library, and a letter she discovered in records of The Knowles Company founder Belle Smallidge …Lewis, a Philadelphian, and Cromwell, a New Yorker, both Northeast Harbor summer residents, were members of a committee attempting to acquire the mountains …Cornelius Smith and his wife Mary Wheeler who were pioneers of the summer colony at Northeast Harbor 1886-1913." …Cooksey Drive; the memorial was moved in the 1970s to a spot near the Route 3 entrance to the Day Mountain path]) and Eliza Lee Homans of Boston and Bar | |
| HCTPR - Acadia National Park's Newest Memorial Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  HCTPR - Acadia National Park's Newest Memorial Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2017-09-30 HCTPR - Acadia National Park's Newest Memorial.pdf …The first was the crest of Barr Hill near Seal Harbor from George B. Cooksey. The second was the Bee Hive mountain property from Eliza Lee Homans. …The third, from the trustees of the will of Linda Dows Cooksey, was the Sea Cliffs parcel near Seal Harbor that contained the Champlain Monument.*2 Prior …That plaque is just off the path on the east side of Jordan Pond. *3 *Footnotes: 1 HCTPR memorial coordinates: N44 21.01595 W068 13.81764 2 Bar Harbor | |
| The Dole Trail Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Dole Trail Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2015-04-19 The Dole Trail.pdf …S u n d a y, A p r i l 1 9 , 2 0 1 5 2015 Don Lenahan The Dole Trail The Dole Trail was an historic trail in Southwest Harbor on Maine's Mount Desert …The map also showed it linking to a path heading west along the Connor Cove shoreline to the mouth of Norwood Cove at the Southwest Harbor causeway, where …In his autobiography Dole recounted his first visit to MDI: "In 1876 we went to Bar Harbor. …"*5 Two of the earliest summer residents of Southwest Harbor, he and Frances bought land in 1884 and built The Ledge, their summer home on Fernald Point | |
| Tragedy at Great Head Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Tragedy at Great Head Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2016-08-21 Tragedy at Great Head.pdf …According to the Bar Harbor Times, a local newspaper, they were hiking around Great Head and had stopped to explore a cave near the water s edge. | |
| The Civilian Conservation Corps Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Civilian Conservation Corps Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2015-03-13 The Civilian Conservation Corps.pdf …One was the Eagle Lake Camp, 154th Company, located in Bar Harbor at the current site of Park headquarters. …The second was the Great Pond Camp, 158th Company, located in Southwest Harbor near Long Pond (formerly Great Pond). …Just outside the Park boundary, it likely was on the site of the former CCC camp in Southwest Harbor. | |
| The Return of a Restored Beloved Memorial Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Return of a Restored Beloved Memorial Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2014-07-31 The Return of a Restored Beloved Memorial.pdf …In 1929 Louise gave the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association $1,000 to endow the Gorge Path and install a bronze plaque in Lilian s honor. | |
| The Satterlee Window Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Satterlee Window Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2013-04-15 The Satterlee Window.pdf ….*4 Postscript: Tiffany stained glass windows can be seen on Mount Desert Island in Bar Harbor's St. | |
| Horse Trough Memorial in Acadia National Park - a Mystery Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Horse Trough Memorial in Acadia National Park - a Mystery Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2014-01-21 Horse Trough Memorial in Acadia NP -- a Mystery.pdf …Beatrix Jones, a prominent landscape architect who later married historian Max Farrand, was living at the time with her parents at Reef Point, their Bar …Harbor waterfront estate. 4 Just the building's cellar remains. | |
| The Stanleys of Cranberry Isles…and Other Colorful Characters. Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Stanleys of Cranberry Isles…and Other Colorful Characters. Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Ralph bears many titles and awards, but for the Southwest Harbor Public Library he is, most of all, a friend...To purchase the print version of this book please contact the Southwest Harbor Public Library at archivist@swhplibrary.org or (207) 244-7065... File Attachment: 2021_The_Stanleys_of_Cranberry_Isles_2021-03-25.pdf …The Bar Harbor Record reports that on June 21st, 1883, Capt. E. J. …The nearest stores were in Bar Harbor or Ellsworth. …Harbor Record Newspaper - microfilm at the Jesup Library, Bar Harbor, Maine Bar Harbor Times Newspaper - microfilm at the Jesup Library, Bar Harbor …Papers, Jesup Library, Bar Harbor, Maine Grondahl, Paul. | |
| A Cheese-shaped Building Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  A Cheese-shaped Building Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: A Bangor Daily News article about an urban legend hiding in plain sight. File Attachment: 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. |
| Pathmaker -- The Tragic Death of Waldron Bates Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Pathmaker -- The Tragic Death of Waldron Bates Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2014-09-29 Pathmaker -- The Tragic Death of Waldron Bates.pdf …After being exhibited in Bar Harbor, it was placed there in September 1910. …How, an early developer of Bar Harbor and land donor. …News of the tragic death of Waldron Bates prompted the Bar Harbor community to establish additional memorials: - The Bar Harbor VIA changed the name of …In his September 1909 report to the Bar Harbor VIA, Path Committee chairman Dr. | |
| Cadillac, Kinney and Fish Sticks Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Cadillac, Kinney and Fish Sticks Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2015-07-12 Cadillac, Kinney and Fish Sticks.pdf …He went on to attend Harvard University, but left for Bar Harbor, ME to pursue an intriguing interest. E. …Kinney became a resident of downtown Bar Harbor in the 1940s about the time he started the North Atlantic Packing Co. there. …Later he resided in Hulls Cove, a Bar Harbor village. A keen businessman, Kinney was also a philanthropist and corporate advisor. …research institution in Bar Harbor; a trustee of the Maine Sea Coast Mission in Bar Harbor, an organization that provides spiritual, health and youth |