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Appalachian Mountain Club Camp - Southwest Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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The Echo Lake Camp began in 1922 when George B. Dorr signed a lease with the Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) to allow camping on the shores of the lake. In 1926 he signed another lease for ten more years. The land, including thirteen acres with 1600 feet of shoreline on Echo Lake, was deeded in perpetuity to the AMC on November 19, 1934.
Northeast Harbor
Northeast Harbor Library
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Northeast Harbor
Northeast Harbor Library
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The village of Northeast Harbor is situated on the southern end of Mount Desert Island at the entrance to Somes Sound and it is part of the Town of Mount Desert. Its harbor is one of the most well-protected on the island and operates year-round. The town has long been home to a renowned summer community.
Roy Salisbury Collection
Northeast Harbor Library
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Roy Salisbury Collection
Northeast Harbor Library
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Photographs: Stetson School (item 6997) Gilman High School (item 6998) Ballard Hill School (item 6999) Mount Desert High School (item 7000) Clifton Dock area (item 7001) Who's who - People (item 7002) Northeast Harbor (1) (item 7005) Northeast Harbor (2) (item 7006) Miscellaneous (item 7004) Documents and Manuscripts: Parker Fennelly's diploma from Leland Powers School (item 7003) Nathan Fennelly invoices (item 7284) Parker Fennelly scrapbook (item 7283) Parker Fennelly discharge papers (item 7285) Parker Family writings Parker Family plays and writings Cottages for Rent, 1929 (item 7286) Letter from Northeast Harbor Water Co., 1904 Future of Mount Desert Island by Charles W. Eliot (see also item 6127) Mount Desert High School and Mount Desert Elementary School specifications, letters from architects & contractors, additions, building notes Objects (see items 7288, 7289) WWII ration books, tokens, service ID, Red Cross Volunteer Pin, V pin [show more]
Bar Harbor
Northeast Harbor Library
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Bar Harbor
Northeast Harbor Library
Seal Harbor
Northeast Harbor Library
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Seal Harbor
Northeast Harbor Library
Somesville
Northeast Harbor Library
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Somesville
Northeast Harbor Library
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Somesville is the earliest village of the town of Mount Desert on Mount Desert Island in southeastern Maine. It is located on the north end of Somes Sound. The village was established by Abraham Somes who was the first settler on the island. It attracted many people because of its mills and quarries. The entire village is part of the Somesville Historic District. (Text source: Wikipedia)
Southwest Harbor - The Road to Ellsworth
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Southwest Harbor - The Road to Ellsworth
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Monument Cove
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Places, Shore
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Monument Cove
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Baker Island Dance Floor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Places, Shore
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Baker Island Dance Floor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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The Baker Island “Dance Floor,” is a series of huge flat slabs of granite found on the south shore, where area-islanders would hold dances on warm summer evenings. Many visitors come here for an “off the beaten path” experience and because of its unique and pleasant setting. “I believe the Thorpe family was instrumental in forming a corporation to purchase a plot of land on Baker’s Island where the dance floor ledges are located to protect the site. When the tremendous sea during a violent storm moved and tipped the large flat rocks out of place a crew of men was sent out to jack them back level.” – The Stanleys of Cranberry Isles…and Other Colorful Characters, Fisheries of Cranberry Island Chapter [show more]
Dog Mountain
St. Sauveur Mountain
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Dog Mountain
St. Sauveur Mountain
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Norumbega Mountain
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Norumbega Mountain
Southwest Harbor Public Library
The Causeway Club
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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The Causeway Club
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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“It was nearly twenty years after Abraham Somes came with his family to make his home at Somesville before William Gilley, first permanent settler in Southwest Harbor, built his log cabin at Norwood's Cove on land now owned by the Southwest Harbor Country Club and which remained in the Gilley family from William's time to the date of selling to the present owners. William Gilley was at Cranberry Isles in 1777 and it was probably four or five years after that date that he went to Southwest Harbor and took up land, which was sheltered from the sea though close to it.” - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 124. “The house now used as a Country Club house was the home of the Gilley family. William Gilley was the first permanent settler in Southwest Harbor and his first house was a log cabin near the shore. Later he built a house just north of the Gilley Burying Ground. Then John, William's grandson, the eldest son of Benjamin Gilley, built the house that is now the Country Club for his parents. He was under age and for his work on the house his father "gave him his time." The place passed from father to son in the Gilley family until Pedrick D. Gilley, fourth generation to own it, sold it to the present owners. The graves of the three generations preceding him are in the Gilley Burying Ground nearby.” - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 131. [show more]
Acadia National Park
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Acadia National Park
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Edward Lothrop Rand Memorial
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Edward Lothrop Rand Memorial
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Lewis Stanley Boatyard
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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Lewis Stanley Boatyard
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
The boatyard and adjacent home have a long history of maritime businesses and occupants. Capt. Lewis G. Stanley (1869-1957) was the son of Enoch B. (Sr.) and Caroline H. (Guptill) Stanley. Carrie Richardson was his sister. He was the husband of Leah Jeanette (Sawyer) Stanley. His house was on The Pool (presently the site of the Heliker-LaHotan Foundation), and he had a large boathouse that blew down in the storm of 1978.
Magnolia, Massachusetts
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Magnolia, Massachusetts
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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"Just over the Manchester [Massachusetts] line in the western section of Gloucester is the major portion of the village of Magnolia at Magnolia Point, long one of the North Shore's most important hospitality tourism destinations… Originally a fishing and farming settlement, Magnolia had its beginnings as a summer resort center in the early 1870s with the construction of the first summer cottages there…" - “Summer By The Seaside: The Architecture of New England Coastal Resort Hotels, 1820-1950” by Bryant F. Tolles, Jr., p. 99, University Press of New England – 2008 [show more]
Echo Lake Girl Scout Camp
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Echo Lake Girl Scout Camp
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Baddeck, Nova Scotia
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Baddeck, Nova Scotia
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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A small village on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia
North Haven and Vinal Haven, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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North Haven and Vinal Haven, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Samuel de Champlain's Map of the Coast of North America from Western Nova Scotia to Cape Cod - 1607
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Descripsion Des Costs & Isles De La Nouvelle France, Faict et Observes par Le Sr. de Champlain - 1607 "This unique exploration document, originally intended for presentation to the king of France, was compiled by Samuel de Champlain (1567-1635), founder of New France. One of the great cartographic treasures of America, it provides the first thorough delineation of the New England and Canadian coast from Cape Sable to Cape Cod. It shows Port Royal; Frenchman's Bay; the St. John, St. Croix, Penobscot, and Kennebec Rivers; and many offshore islands--including Mount Desert, which Champlain himself named. The place names and coast line correspond closely to Champlain's narrative in his Voyages, published in 1613." - “Samuel de Champlain’s 1607 Map,” Library of Congress site, 07/27/2010, Accessed online 11/24/13; http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr009.html [show more]
Tracy Cove, Southwest Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Tracy Cove, Southwest Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Hunnewell - Popham Beaches
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Hunnewell - Popham Beaches
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Southwest Harbor Maps for Research
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Southwest Harbor Maps for Research
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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These annotated maps are combined here for research and reference.
Pará, Brazil
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Pará, Brazil
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Village of Frenchboro
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Village of Frenchboro
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
See “Hauling by Hand: The Life and Times of a Maine Island” by Dean Lawrence Lunt, 1999 See “Frenchboro, Long Island Plantation Maine” by Vivian Lunt, 1976 See “Frenchboro, Long Island Plantation: The First Hundred Years” by Vivian Lunt, 1980