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The Coit Excursion
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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The Coit Excursion
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • swhpl-12778
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  • Publication, Literary, Article
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  • People
Date:
  • 1870
Description:
An account of the third “Coit Family” steamer excursion from Worcester, Massachusetts, this third trip does not seem to have involved the family though known by their name as they had started the excursions in earlier years. Descriptions of stops made by the steamer were written by various authors.

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…His description of his visit to Bar Harbor is clear and his style delightful. American House, Belfast, Me., August 4, 1870. …South West Harbor is in Tremont. Bar Harbor, our stopping place, and the favorite resort, is in Eden. …Bar Harbor takes its name from a sand-bar at its head, across which the high tide swells, but along which at low water one may walk or drive to Bar Island …The cosy harbor is protected by forbidding names.