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The Dollar Social at Southwest Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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The Dollar Social at Southwest Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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...In 1892 the ladies of Southwest Harbor gathered together to raise money for land upon which to build a library building and then reported how they raised...their dollar..The Dollar Social was the first fundraising event held for the Southwest Harbor Public Library and the poem describing it was famous in...


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…The Dollar Social At Southwest Harbor The Southwest Harbor Public library was founded in 1884. …Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 115. …"The Dollar Social At Southwest Harbor" describes how each woman earned her dollar. …Tracy, our Republican friend, took a bribe, I'm sorry to state, For her husband promised her a dollar if she would help him illuminate, So she sacrificed bar
The Champlain Society
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Lincoln - Nan Lincoln
  • 1996
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The Champlain Society
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Champlain Society - BHT - 08-01-1996.pdf
…THE CHAMPLAIN SOCIETY by Nan Lincoln The Bar Harbor Times, August 1, 1996 Most histories of Acadia National Park credit three men with the park …building a permanent seasonal residence on the island, his brother Charles convinced his father to eschew the Frenchman Bay area with its ostentation BarHarbor summer traffic in favor of the still undiscovered Northeast Harbor area.
The Civilian Conservation Corps
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Lenahan - Donald Patrick Lenahan
  • 2015-03-13
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The Civilian Conservation Corps
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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2015-03-13 The Civilian Conservation Corps.pdf
…One was the Eagle Lake Camp, 154th Company, located in Bar Harbor 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.
The CCC in Acadia
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Russell - Jack Russell
  • 2008
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The CCC in Acadia
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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CCC - Russell - 2008.pdf
…By 1933, more than 700 unemployed men from Bar Harbor alone had registered their need for work.