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| News article re: Bar Harbor post office Tremont Historical Society |
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|  News article re: Bar Harbor post office Tremont Historical Society Description: ...News article from The Daily Herald about Bar Harbor post office hours and services... | |||
| New article from Ellsworth American about Bar Harbor events and described a new cancelling machine at the Bar Harbor post office. Tremont Historical Society |
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|  New article from Ellsworth American about Bar Harbor events and described a new cancelling machine at the Bar Harbor post office. Tremont Historical Society Description: ...New article from Ellsworth American about Bar Harbor events and described a new cancelling machine at the Bar Harbor post office... | |||
| Excerpt from 1909 Bar Harbor Record article re: Northeast Harbor Post Office and local mail. Tremont Historical Society |
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|  Excerpt from 1909 Bar Harbor Record article re: Northeast Harbor Post Office and local mail. Tremont Historical Society Description: ...Excerpt from 1909 Bar Harbor Record article re: Northeast Harbor Post Office and local mail... | |||
| Excerpt from Bar Harbor record article re: Asticou Inn fire, 1900 Tremont Historical Society |
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|  Excerpt from Bar Harbor record article re: Asticou Inn fire, 1900 Tremont Historical Society Description: ...Excerpt from Bar Harbor record article re: Asticou Inn fire, 1900... | |||
| Bar Harbor Times news article Tremont Historical Society |
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|  Bar Harbor Times news article Tremont Historical Society | ||||
| Re-printed article in the Ellsworth American about the Harry E. Davis Buckboard company, located in Ellsworth and Bar Harbor. Tremont Historical Society |
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|  Re-printed article in the Ellsworth American about the Harry E. Davis Buckboard company, located in Ellsworth and Bar Harbor. Tremont Historical Society Description: ...Davis Buckboard company, located in Ellsworth and Bar Harbor... | |||
| The Kellams Rowed Their Dory, Tracing An Island Story Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Kellams Rowed Their Dory, Tracing An Island Story Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...The Bar Harbor Times, February 2, 2011... File Attachment: Kellam_-_Kellam_Dory_-_02-02-11.pdf …From Bernard boat builder Clifton Rich, they bought the dory that would serve as their vehicle for the runs they made to Bass Harbor to pick up supplies …The dory will be an outdoor display at the society s Country Store Museum in Bass Harbor, said the society s president Muriel Davisson. …Nan would later use the analogy of two black bears converging on the same hollow tree that harbored a honeycomb. …The Bar Harbor Times, February 2, 2011. | |
| "Cemetaries of Cranberry Isles and the Towns of Mount Desert Island" by Thomas F. Vining Islesford Historical Society |
| "Cemetaries of Cranberry Isles and the Towns of Mount Desert Island" by Thomas F. Vining Islesford Historical Society Description: ..."a record of names and dates on gravestones in cemetaries of Bar Harbor, Cranberry Isles, Mount Desert, Southwest Harbor and Tremont"... | |||||
| Has Come Here for 68 Summers: A.L. Higgins Tells of Henry Rand's First Visits Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Has Come Here for 68 Summers: A.L. Higgins Tells of Henry Rand's First Visits Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Bar Harbor Times clipping--A.L. Higgins tells of the Rands coming to Eden circa 1866... | ||
| Finding Aid for the William Otis Collection: 1692-1941 Islesford Historical Society |
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| Finding Aid for the William Otis Collection: 1692-1941 Islesford Historical Society Description: ...the William Otis Collection: 1692-1941" Located at the William Otis Sawtelle collections and Research center at Acadia NAtional Park headquarters in Bar...Harbor, ME Acq #292A - "Finding Aid for the Carroll Farm Collection 1840-1966" Located at the William Otis Sawtelle Collections and research center in...BAr Harbor, ME... | ||||
| Articles on the Fire of 1947 Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Articles on the Fire of 1947 Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: ...Hand written notes, typed articles with edits of contributions to Bar Harbor Times by LaRue Spiker of the Fire of 1947 40th Anniversary of fire... | |||
| Museum Traces Island's History - Abbe Museum Blends Ruth Moore Poetry With Great Gott Island Artifacts Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Museum Traces Island's History - Abbe Museum Blends Ruth Moore Poetry With Great Gott Island Artifacts Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Bar Harbor - When the archaeologists of summer probe the fragile layers of Great Gott Island history, they say the faint bark of an Indian dog is freed... File Attachment: MOORE GOTT ARCHEOL - 05-28-94.pdf …Museum Traces Island's History Abbe Museum Blends Ruth Moore Poetry With Great Gott Island Artifacts By Kathy Harbour The Bangor Daily News, May 28, 1994 Bar …Harbor - When the archaeologists of summer probe the fragile layers of Great Gott Island history, they say the faint bark of an Indian dog is freed. …The museum is located at Sieur de Monts Spring, off Route 3 between Bar Harbor and Otter Creek, and is open daily 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. | |
| The Revenue Man - Catching Smugglers During Prohibition Was Tough Work Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Revenue Man - Catching Smugglers During Prohibition Was Tough Work Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 14997.pdf …His records, from which much of the following is taken, show that he sometimes walked from Southwest Harbor to Somesville and Bar Harbor. …to several Bar Harbor summer residents, namely a Miss Coles, Arthur C. …In one of his letters, Inspector Higgins wrote that Bar Harbor had more bootleggers and rumrunners than any other town in the county. …Higgins felt like a wanted man and carried a revolver as it was rumored that the Bar Harbor rumrunners had contracted with someone in Boston to take him | ||
| Fire, Obliteration, Mission 66, and Park Trails Program, 1943-2003 Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Fire, Obliteration, Mission 66, and Park Trails Program, 1943-2003 Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Excerpt from Pathmakers: Cultural Landscape Report for the Historic Hiking Trail System of Mount Desert Island, pgs. 149-156 File Attachment: Effects_of_the_1947_Fire.pdf …However, as recorded in Bar Harbor or maintenance of the trails. …Norton had also been a member of the towards Hulls Cove and Bar Harbor and south over CCC trails crew at the Great [Long] Pond Camp. …For several years, Norm Walls and his crew divided their time between the NPS and the Bar Harbor VIA. …Path in Bar Harbor, a challenging task as the area was often hard-hit by winter storms. | |
| The Coit Excursion Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Coit Excursion Southwest Harbor Public Library 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. File Attachment: Coit_Excursion_1870.pdf …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. | ||
| George Bucknam Dorr - the Father of Acadia National Park Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  George Bucknam Dorr - the Father of Acadia National Park Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2012-05-04 George Bucknam Dorr - the Father of Acadia National Park.pdf …Dorr Courtesy: ANP-NPS years later they built their Bar Harbor summer home, which they named Oldfarm, on 90 acres at Compass Harbor. …The property's entrance is a mile south of the Bar Harbor village green.*1 Dorr was a horticulturalist and in 1896 he established the Mount Desert Nurseries …His estate gave Bar Harbor's Jesup Memorial Library $12,865.63 and equal amounts of $6,432.81 to the HCTPR and the Abbe Museum of Bar Harbor. | |
| Atwater Kent - Inventor, Industrialist and Philanthropist Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Atwater Kent - Inventor, Industrialist and Philanthropist Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2016-12-26 Atwater Kent - Inventor, Industrialist and Philanthropist.pdf …It was installed in 1946 on the Schooner Head Path, south of downtown Bar Harbor, ME and just beyond High Seas, the former home of pathmaker and Princeton …While a summer resident of Bar Harbor, Kent owned the former Frederick Vanderbilt s estate, Sonogee, and the Robert Abbe estate, Brookend, off Eden Street …Among his other holdings were Long Porcupine and The Hop, two islands off Bar Harbor in Frenchman Bay. | |
| Newman's legacy, and his boats, will sail on Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Newman's legacy, and his boats, will sail on Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Article about legendary boatbuilder Jarvis Newman. File Attachment: Newman's legacy, and his boats, will sail on - Mount Desert Islander.pdf …SOUTHWEST HARBOR MAINE 04679 207 - 244- 3860 : 31' FRIENDSHIP SLOOP "DICTATOR" MODEL DINETTE LAYOUT SPECIFICATIONS LOA - 30*10" LWL - 26* -O" BEAM …- will- sail-on) Newman s legacy, and his boats, will sail on September 11, 2019 by Sarah Hinckley on News, Waterfront BAR …He was living at Birch Bay Village in Bar Harbor after spending most of his life in Southwest Harbor. …In the winter of 1968, Newman s shop was a shed behind The Village Washtub, the laundromat he and his -V wife owned in Southwest Harbor. | |
| A Biography of Ruth Moore of Gott’s Island, Maine Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  A Biography of Ruth Moore of Gott’s Island, Maine Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Reprinted in The Newsletter of the Tremont Historical Society - 2007-2008. File Attachment: A Biography of Ruth Moore of Gott.pdf …Her father and her brother Harve also maintained a weir in the island s harbor. …Gott s Island is actually two islands, Great Gott and Little Gott, connected by a tidal bar. …By the turn of the century, these rusticators had made their way to Bar Harbor, Maine and established there a thriving enclave of summer cottages …Desert Island communities of Bar Harbor, Seal Harbor, and Northeast Harbor. Gott s Island was not isolated from the influx of select families. | |
| Public Gets Rare Glimpse at Historic Acadia Gatekeeper’s Home Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Public Gets Rare Glimpse at Historic Acadia Gatekeeper’s Home Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: An account of a rare open house at one of the two Gate Lodges in Acadia National Park. File Attachment: Jordan_Pond_Gate_Lodge.pdf …It and another built near Northeast Harbor on Route 198 are the only two such gate houses in Acadia. …national park dates to 1916, when President Woodrow Wilson established the 6,000acre Sieur de Monts National Monument not far from the downtown village of Bar …Harbor. …According to Anne Funderburk, a Seal Harbor resident with extensive knowledge of the village s history, Rockefeller went to great lengths to have the | |
| Chris's Pond: A Town's Memories are Etched in Ice Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Chris's Pond: A Town's Memories are Etched in Ice Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Lawlor - Chris Pond.pdf …Chris's Pond: A Town's Memories Are Etched In Ice by Nan Lincoln The Bar Harbor Times - January, 12, 1989 A cherry-cheeked child skitters by, her bright …Skating on Chris's Pond has been a cherished winter memory for Southwest Harbor residents for decades. …In summer Chris Lawlor would drain the pond by pulling a plug, allowing the stagnant water to run down the hill into Southwest Harbor. …Uncle Bill Something else is different about the little pond on a hill overlooking Southwest Harbor. | |
| The Concept of Tribal Separation as rationalized in Indian Folklore Northeast Harbor Library |
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| The Concept of Tribal Separation as rationalized in Indian Folklore Northeast Harbor Library Description: Reprinted from "Pennsylvania Archeologist", Vol. XVI, No. 3 | ||
| Queen of the Sea Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Queen of the Sea Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: “Queen of the Sea” by LaRue Spiker. Annette Kellerman. 2 pages. Previously archived as object id 012.fic.065.01 | |||
| Shop of Penobscot Indian Enterprises Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Shop of Penobscot Indian Enterprises Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: “The Shop of Penobscot Indian Enterprises” by LaRue Spiker. 3 pages. Previously archived as 012.FIC.065.06 |