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Bar Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Bar Harbor
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Bar Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Bar Harbor
Northeast Harbor Library
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Bar Harbor
Northeast Harbor Library
Indian Villages - Bar Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Places, Camp
  • Bar Harbor, Eden
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Indian Villages - Bar Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Indian Villages – Bar Harbor.pdf
…Places Sites Monuments History Indian Villages Bar Harbor Name: Indian Village What: Indigenous peoples summer encampments Bar HarborBar Harbor Location 2nd Address: Indian Village was in the "U" shaped piece of land between Ledgelawn Avenue, Park Street, and Main Street, Bar Harbor, …" " - Lost Bar Harbor by G.W. Helfrich and Gladys O Neil, p. 3 - 1982. …seem like bad marketing to residents of Bar Harbor who hoped to profit from the new, elegant Bar Harbor.
Bar Harbor Airport
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Bar Harbor Airport
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Bar Harbor Shore Path
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Bar Harbor
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Bar Harbor Shore Path
Southwest Harbor Public Library
The Shore Path - Bar Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Bar Harbor
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The Shore Path - Bar Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Native American Camp at Bar Harbor - "Indian Village" Second Location
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Bar Harbor
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Cromwell Harbor Road
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Bar Harbor, Eden
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Cromwell Harbor Road
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Civilian Conservation Corps - Company 154
Eagle Lake Camp
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Bar Harbor
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Civilian Conservation Corps - Company 154
Eagle Lake Camp
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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...The Eagle Lake CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camp (NP-1), Company 154, at Bar Harbor was operated under the supervision of the National Park Service...


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CCC – Company 154 – BH - T.pdf
…History CCC Company 154 BH Civilian Conservation Corps - Company 154 Eagle Lake Camp Address: 22 McFarland Hill Drive (Eagle Lake Road) City: Bar …Company 158 Great Pond [Long Pond] Camp ME SWH Long Pond Road - 059 The Eagle Lake CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camp (NP-1), Company 154, at BarHarbor was operated under the supervision of the National Park Service from May 1934 to June 1942. …In June 1933, Company 158 (NP-2) established a work camp on Great [Long] Pond near Southwest Harbor.
Southwest Harbor - The Road to Ellsworth
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Southwest Harbor - The Road to Ellsworth
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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AF - ROUTE 102 - SOUTHWEST HARBOR.pdf
Bar Harbor Times, August 3, 1961, p. …The Southwest Harbor Page, The Bar Harbor Times, April 25, 1923, p. 6. Senator J.D. Phillips - Dr. …Bar Harbor Times, December 2, 1925, p. 2. S.H. …- Southwest Harbor, The Bar Harbor Times, December 16, 1925, p. 5. 1925 Maine State 102, when it was originally designated in 1925, followed the old
Nick's Cove
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Nick's Cove
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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...Lenahan, Bar Harbor, Maine, 2010, p. 71-72...
The Memorials of Acadia
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Lenahan - Donald Patrick Lenahan
  • Acadia National Park
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The Memorials of Acadia
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
...From 2012 to 2017, Don Lenahan of Bar Harbor, Maine wrote blog posts about the people, geography, and history of Acadia National Park...
Eugene M. Norwood Square
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Southwest Harbor
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Eugene M. Norwood Square
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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...The square is at the junction of Main Street and Seal Cove Road, Southwest Harbor, Maine...


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Eugene M. Norwood Square.pdf
…Norwood Post, No. 169, of the American Legion of Southwest Harbor is named for him as is the Eugene M. …Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 102 - 1938. …Norwood Square, Bar Harbor Times, June 6, 1923, p. 6. 2007: 88 years after Eugene's death, the memorial honoring him was still beautifully planted and …Harbor.
Green Mountain Railway
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Transportation, Railroad
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
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Green Mountain Railway
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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...Harbor and Mount Desert Island" by William Berry Lapham, p. 16 - 1887...No person should visit Bar Harbor without ascending Green Mountain by way of Eagle Lake and the Green Mountain Railway...The journey up the mountain and the magnificent outlook from the summit…" - Part of an advertisement appearing in Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island By...See “The Story of Bar Harbor – An Informal History Recording One Hundred and Fifty Years In the Life of a Community,” by Richard Walden Hale, Jr., p. 155...
Porcupine Islands
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Bar Harbor
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Porcupine Islands
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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...The Porcupine Islands, named for their resemblance to a group of porcupines, in Frenchman Bay off the coast of Bar Harbor...
Great Pond Camp, Company 158 - Civilian Conservation Corp
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Southwest Harbor
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...The Great Pond Camp in Southwest Harbor operated from 1933-1941...“The Southwest Harbor camp was opened about May, 1933 with enrollees erecting and living in tents while construction of the roll roofing covered barracks...The camp was located at the height of ground on the west side of the road leading from Southwest Harbor village to the south end of Great Pond [Long Pond...


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CCC – Company 158 - SWH - T.pdf
…Camp Date Founded: 1932 Date Built: 1933 Other locations: CCC Company 154 BH Civilian Conservation Corps - Company 154 Eagle Lake Camp ME BarHarbor McFarland Hill Drive - 022 In 1932 Franklin D. …In June 1933, Company 158 (NP-2) established a work camp on Great [Long] Pond near Southwest Harbor. …Coffin Brown, Olmstead Center for Landscape Preservation, p. 122137, 2006 The Eagle Lake CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camp (NP-1), Company 154, at Bar
The Causeway, Norwood's Cove
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Southwest Harbor
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The Causeway, Norwood's Cove
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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..."The long contemplated scheme of bridging the dam across Norwood cove, Southwest Harbor, shutting in the tide waters for a swimming and boating pool, is...The slate legislature will be petitioned, and if a charter is granted work will begin on the dam in the spring." - Bar Harbor Record, December 21, 1898...
Balance Rock
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Bar Harbor
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Balance Rock
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Balance Rock - Shore Path.pdf
…Places Sites Monuments History Balance Rock Location: Shore Path Town: Bar Harbor State: Maine Map: C&S BH Plan 1887 Balance Rock GPS (Global …Positioning System) Latitude, Longitude: 44.388806, -68.200020 (This front page Bar Harbor Times piece was most probably written by Southwest Harbor and …Anyway it was a great old proposition while it lasted and was good advertising for Bar Harbor. Cheer up you nature lovers, it might be worse. …- The Bar Harbor Times, Wednesday, November 23, 1932 Pearson - Dorothy (Pearson) Rand (1889-1973) "Balance Rock still remains along the Shore Path at the
The Ovens
Cathedral Rock
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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The Ovens
Cathedral Rock
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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The Ovens - aka Cathedral Rock.pdf
…, 1830s-60s. p. 20-26 Rocking, Walking Guides and Hiking Clubs, 1860s-1890 p. 26-33 "The Ovens are situated about six or seven miles northwood [from Bar …Island at Bar Harbor], and it would not be profitable to go the whole way following the line of the beach, on account of the difficulties that are met
The Boiler, Great Cranberry Island
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Cranberry Isles, Great Cranberry Island
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The Boiler, Great Cranberry Island
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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...The huge 11 ton boulder the local fishermen called “The Boiler” had been lodged in the mud just off Fish Point at the entrance to the Pool or harbor on...The Pool, a good sheltered harbor for schooners, is shallow with a 2-foot draft at low tide, rising to an 8 to 10 foot draft when the tide is in...The Bar Harbor Record, February 23, 1900 - Cranberry Island...
Precipice Trail
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Places, Hiking Trail
  • Acadia National Park
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Precipice Trail
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Precipice Trail - T.pdf
…Funded by: Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association and Rudolph Brunnow Rudolph Ernest Brunnow (1858-1917) Chairman of the Path Committee 1912-1917 He …"He died in the spring of 1917, leaving behind some of the most challenging, controversial, and highly crafted trails in the Bar Harbor System " …Bar Harbor Times, November 21, 1914, p. 1.
Eagle Lake
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Eagle Lake
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Eagle Lake.pdf
…water is in some places over ten fathoms deep, and so sweet and pure that it furnishes a very satisfactory water supply to the cottages and hotels of BarHarbor. …During the summer season, several times each day, four horse barges run from Bar Harbor to Eagle Lake, a distance of 2 miles, through the forest, and …It is a quaint little stern wheel craft, formerly used on the Merrimac at Newburyport, and hauled up from Bar Harbor to Eagle Lake by a hundred oxen and
The Barque of Barque Beach in Bernard
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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The Barque of Barque Beach in Bernard
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Barque Beach - The Barque.pdf
…Captain Moore took her in over Bass Harbor bar and let go the only remaining anchor; this being insufficient to hold her, she dragged and grounded upon …There are to be found in the houses about here, rules, boxes, and other articles, valued as mementoes, made from this wood." - Bar Harbor Mount Desert …(Written for the Record) Bar Harbor Record, Thursday, December 4, 1890. …E.N.B. - Bar Harbor Record, Thursday, December 4, 1890. History is not always kind to historians, but this search proved the exception.
Echo Lake
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Acadia National Park
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Echo Lake
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Echo Lake is located on the western side of Mount Desert Island. The lake is a popular swimming area and is surrounded by hiking trails on the nearby mountains.


File Attachment:
Echo Lake.pdf
…activities on Mount Desert Island that was considered an essential experience by early rusticators taking a buckboard ride between Somesville and Southwest Harbor …"The road to Somesville runs northward from [Southwest] harbor, and in about a mile form the Island House reaches the divergence of the Seal-Cove road. …the silvery waters of Somes Sound come into view, beyond the rugged rocks of Robinson Mountain; and the hotel on Green Mountain shows the direction of BarHarbor.
Acadia National Park
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Acadia National Park
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Acadia National Park.pdf
…Lenahan, Bar Harbor, Maine, 2010. Includes location and trail maps with GPS coordinates.