File Attachment: 2014-06-04 Acadia National Park's Little-Known Mountain.pdf …In 1896 it was changed to "Dan Brewers Mt" on the BarHarbor 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 BarHarbor from its prominent 1530' summit.
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
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 BarHarbor
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 BarHarbor. …"*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
File Attachment: 2015-03-13 The Civilian Conservation Corps.pdf …One was the Eagle Lake Camp, 154th Company, located in BarHarbor 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.
File Attachment: 2016-08-21 Tragedy at Great Head.pdf …According to the BarHarbor Times, a local newspaper, they were hiking around Great Head and had stopped to explore a cave near the water s edge.
File Attachment: 2013-04-15 The Satterlee Window.pdf ….*4 Postscript: Tiffany stained glass windows can be seen on Mount Desert Island in BarHarbor's St.
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.