File Attachment: Indian Villages – Bar Harbor.pdf …Places Sites Monuments History Indian Villages BarHarbor Name: Indian Village What: Indigenous peoples summer encampments BarHarbor …BarHarbor Location 2nd Address: Indian Village was in the "U" shaped piece of land between Ledgelawn Avenue, Park Street, and Main Street, BarHarbor, …" " - Lost BarHarbor by G.W. Helfrich and Gladys O Neil, p. 3 - 1982. …seem like bad marketing to residents of BarHarbor who hoped to profit from the new, elegant BarHarbor.
Description: ...The Eagle Lake CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camp (NP-1), Company 154, at BarHarbor was operated under the supervision of the National Park Service...
File Attachment: 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 Bar …Harbor 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.
File Attachment: AF - ROUTE 102 - SOUTHWEST HARBOR.pdf …BarHarbor Times, August 3, 1961, p. …The Southwest Harbor Page, The BarHarbor Times, April 25, 1923, p. 6. Senator J.D. Phillips - Dr. …BarHarbor Times, December 2, 1925, p. 2. S.H. …- Southwest Harbor, The BarHarbor Times, December 16, 1925, p. 5. 1925 Maine State 102, when it was originally designated in 1925, followed the old
Description: ...From 2012 to 2017, Don Lenahan of BarHarbor, Maine wrote blog posts about the people, geography, and history of Acadia National Park...
Description: ...The square is at the junction of Main Street and Seal Cove Road, Southwest Harbor, Maine...
File Attachment: 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, BarHarbor Times, June 6, 1923, p. 6. 2007: 88 years after Eugene's death, the memorial honoring him was still beautifully planted and …Harbor.
Description: ...Harbor and Mount Desert Island" by William Berry Lapham, p. 16 - 1887...No person should visit BarHarbor 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 BarHarbor and Mount Desert Island By...See “The Story of BarHarbor – An Informal History Recording One Hundred and Fifty Years In the Life of a Community,” by Richard Walden Hale, Jr., p. 155...
Description: ...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...
File Attachment: 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 Bar …Harbor 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
Description: ..."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." - BarHarbor Record, December 21, 1898...
File Attachment: Balance Rock - Shore Path.pdf …Places Sites Monuments History Balance Rock Location: Shore Path Town: BarHarbor State: Maine Map: C&S BH Plan 1887 Balance Rock GPS (Global …Positioning System) Latitude, Longitude: 44.388806, -68.200020 (This front page BarHarbor 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 BarHarbor. Cheer up you nature lovers, it might be worse. …- The BarHarbor Times, Wednesday, November 23, 1932 Pearson - Dorothy (Pearson) Rand (1889-1973) "Balance Rock still remains along the Shore Path at the
File Attachment: 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 BarHarbor], 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
Description: ...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 BarHarbor Record, February 23, 1900 - Cranberry Island...
File Attachment: Precipice Trail - T.pdf …Funded by: BarHarbor 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 BarHarbor System " …BarHarbor Times, November 21, 1914, p. 1.
File Attachment: 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 Bar …Harbor. …During the summer season, several times each day, four horse barges run from BarHarbor 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 BarHarbor to Eagle Lake by a hundred oxen and
File Attachment: Barque Beach - The Barque.pdf …Captain Moore took her in over Bass Harborbar 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." - BarHarbor Mount Desert …(Written for the Record) BarHarbor Record, Thursday, December 4, 1890. …E.N.B. - BarHarbor Record, Thursday, December 4, 1890. History is not always kind to historians, but this search proved the exception.
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 Bar …Harbor.