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| Bar Harbor Days Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Bar Harbor Days Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...“Bar Harbor Days” by Mrs. Burton Harrison with illustrations by Fenn and Hyde was published by Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, New York, 1887... | ||
| Bar Harbor Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Bar Harbor Airport Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| A Memorial Walk - Bar Harbor to Sieur de Monts Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  A Memorial Walk - Bar Harbor to Sieur de Monts Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2012-06-24 A Memorial Walk - Bar Harbor to Sieur de Monts.pdf …The walk starts at the 1906 horse trough/fountain at the southeast corner of Bar Harbor's village green. …You'll pass three churches: the Congregational Church, since rebuilt, was the first church in Bar Harbor; St. …You are now heading back to Bar Harbor. Behind the Nature Center is a memorial to George Dorr. …Harbor you might wish to get Betty Massie's SelfGuided Walking Tour of Historic Bar Harbor. | |
| Acadia National Park's Other Bar Island Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Acadia National Park's Other Bar Island Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2013-01-10 Acadia National Park's Other Bar Island.pdf …entrance to Somes Harbor and off Squantum Point is Bar Island. …Courtesy: Northeast Harbor Library Courtesy: Northeast Harbor Library An 1887 map shows Bar Island and depicts the locations of the log cabin, a well …Mapmakers have consistently labeled the island as Bar Island; yet, it was often locally referred to as Pryor's Island. 2 Bar Harbor Times, 6/13/1934; p …. 8. 3 Bar Harbor Times, 8/26/1925; p. 12. 4 Memorial GPS coordinates: N44 21.390' W068 19.427' | |
| The Seal Harbor Shore Path Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Seal Harbor Shore Path Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2015-08-14 The Seal Harbor Shore Path.pdf …Anne Funderburk, a Seal Harbor resident and historian, recollects "The Seal Harbor Shore Path was built and maintained by Cooksey Realty (later Seal Harbor …Photo acknowledgements: * Seal Harbor Library ** Southwest Harbor Public Library - W. H. …Bar Harbor Record. …Desert Island Maine, published by the Village Improvement Societies of Bar Harbor, Seal Harbor, Northeast [Harbor], and Southwest Harbor. 1915. 4 Walks | |
| Southwest Harbor - The Road to Ellsworth Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Southwest Harbor - The Road to Ellsworth Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: AF - ROUTE 102 - SOUTHWEST HARBOR.pdf …Bar Harbor Times, August 3, 1961, p. …The Southwest Harbor Page, The Bar Harbor Times, April 25, 1923, p. 6. Senator J.D. Phillips - Dr. …Bar Harbor Times, December 2, 1925, p. 2. S.H. …- Southwest Harbor, The Bar Harbor Times, December 16, 1925, p. 5. 1925 Maine State 102, when it was originally designated in 1925, followed the old | |||
| Nick's Cove Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Nick's Cove Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Lenahan, Bar Harbor, Maine, 2010, p. 71-72... | |||
| Northeast Harbor's Schoolhouse Ledge - a Place for a Peaceful Hike Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Northeast Harbor's Schoolhouse Ledge - a Place for a Peaceful Hike Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2012-09-05 Northeast Harbor's Schoolhouse Ledge - a Place for a Peaceful Hike.pdf …We d n e s d a y, S e p t e m b e r 5 , 2 0 1 2 2012 Don Lenahan Northeast Harbor's Schoolhouse Ledge - a Place for a Peaceful Hike Northeast Harbor …downtown on the south and the Northeast Harbor Golf Course on the west. …The "Northeast Harbor Trail Map" is in the form of an attractive brochure available at a number of village venues, including the Northeast Harbor Library …Published by The Village Improvement Societies of Bar Harbor, Seal Harbor, Northeast [sic], and Southwest Harbor. 1915. 3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ | |
| The Gurnee Path - Built, Endowed and Abandoned Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Gurnee Path - Built, Endowed and Abandoned Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2015-09-08 The Gurnee Path -- Built, Endowed and Abandoned.pdf …In its August notes of that year the Bar Harbor VIA stated the following: Mr. …He was among the original incorporators of the Bar Harbor VIA. …in scholarship, $10,000 to the Bar Harbor YMCA, and $5,000 to the Bar Harbor VIA to maintain the How memorial on a triangular lot he deeded to the VIA …Grandgent, 1928, p.79. 3 Bar Harbor Times, July 3, 1941, p.4. 4 North entrance/pull-off GPS coordinates: N44 24.530' W068 14.478' 5 Bar Harbor Record | |
| The Pulpits of Acadia Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Pulpits of Acadia Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2013-07-11 The Pulpits of Acadia.pdf …The earliest rock formation to be called Pulpit Rock appears to have been the one in Bar Harbor. It was noted in 1869 by Benjamin F. De Costa. …Harbor ca.1915 Pulpit Rock - Bar Harbor today Mountains.*3 That same year a newspaper article describing the Cadillac Mountain path system stated, " …Bates, Rand and Jaques. 1896. 4 Bar Harbor Record. …Revised and published by William Jay Turner. 1941. 9 Bar Harbor Times. September 15, 1960, p. 1. | |
| Acadia National Park's Forsaken Lakes Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Acadia National Park's Forsaken Lakes Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2014-05-18 Acadia National Park's Forsaken Lakes.pdf …They are walkable at low water level and are similar to the stepping stones along the west side of The Tarn, south of Bar Harbor. …The 4-acre pond was owned by Charles How, a Bostonian who came to Bar Harbor in 1870. …How of the Fawn Pond and forty acres of land to the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association 1906. …*Footnotes: 1 Bar Harbor Record, December 1, 1892, p.4. 2 Bar Harbor Record September 21, 1898, p.5. 3 Bar Harbor Times, March 28, 1934, p.7. 4 I am thankful | |
| The Emery Path - Another Historic Gem in Acadia National Park Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Emery Path - Another Historic Gem in Acadia National Park Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2013-12-09 The Emery Path -- Another Historic Gem in Acadia NP.pdf …John continued his involvement in Bar Harbor, where he was a member of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association's Roads and Paths committee under …The construction of The Turrets wasn't Emery's first time in Bar Harbor. …He was there at least by 1881, when he stayed at theRodick House hotel, and continued to visit Bar Harbor thereafter. …Bar Harbor Mount Desert Herald, July 17, 1881, p.2. 3 The Turrets is now a campus administrative building of the College of the Atlantic. 4 Bar Harbor | |
| The Cross on Flying Mountain, Acadia National Park - a Mystery Unraveled Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Cross on Flying Mountain, Acadia National Park - a Mystery Unraveled Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2014-10-22 The Cross on Flying Mountain, Acadia National Park -- a Mystery Unraveled.pdf …Eyebolts Cut rod and brace What these iron relics are is revealed in a 1924 Bar Harbor Times photograph, which shows a cross on top of Flying Mountain …"*2 Bar Harbor Times The wooden cross was designed for Aimee (Rotch) Sargent, wife of Winthrop Sargent, summer residents of Northeast Harbor, by the …Saviour Episcopal Church in Bar Harbor and other structures on Mount Desert Island. …*Footnotes: 1 Bar Harbor Times, March 19, 1924, p. 3. 2 Eliot retired as president of Harvard in 1909, a position he had held for 40 years. | |
| The Curran Path - a Once Long and Lovely Walk Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Curran Path - a Once Long and Lovely Walk Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2012-06-10 The Curran Path - a Once Long and Lovely Walk.pdf …By 1896 Nicholas was the proprietor of a second Curran House, a small hotel on Main Street near the wharf in downtown Bar Harbor. …In 1902 Mary Curran, now a widow, sold the property to Frank Brewer, who sold it to the Bar Harbor Water Company in 1915. …Harbor's water supply. …It is interesting to note that Nicholas complained to the Bar Harbor Water Company in 1897 about the loss of his property shoreline due to the higher water | |
| Acadia National Park, Founded on Inspiration, Perseverance and Generosity Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Acadia National Park, Founded on Inspiration, Perseverance and Generosity Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2014-07-21 Acadia National Park, Founded on Inspiration, Perseverance and Generosity.pdf …In 1881 he established his summer home in Northeast Harbor. …in Bar Harbor a few years later. …An entrepreneurial graduate of Harvard, he launched a successful horticultural nursery and a granite quarrying business in Bar Harbor. …There are two peaks on its popular ridgeline, which overshadows downtown Bar Harbor's southwest flank. | |
| Acadia National Park's Discarded Sweet Waters of Acadia Slab Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Acadia National Park's Discarded Sweet Waters of Acadia Slab Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2012-12-03 Acadia National Park's Discarded Sweet Waters of Acadia Slab.pdf …In 1915 the Bar Harbor Times published that the Sieur de Monts Spring Company, a Maine corporation headed by George B. …One of these, Meadow Road, led from Bar Harbor's Ledgelawn Avenue, cutting straight through the swampy east side of Great Meadow. …Sieur de Monts Pool today *Footnotes: 1 GPS coordinates of the slab: N44 21.844' W068 12.251' 2 Bar Harbor Times, 9/18/1915; p. 1. 3 Bar Harbor Times | |
| Skiing on Mount Desert Island - a Look Back Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Skiing on Mount Desert Island - a Look Back Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2014-02-24 Skiing on Mount Desert Island -- a Look Back.pdf …This type of chancy skiing changed somewhat in 1936 with the establishment of a formal downhill enterprise on McFarland Hill in Bar Harbor. …McFarland Field today looking north to McFarland Hill *Footnotes: 1 These downhill venues are mentioned in numerous Bar Harbor Times articles of the MDI …from the summit to the Featherbed; and the old carriage road refers to the historic buckboard road that once ran from Eagle Lake Road to the summit. 2 Bar …Harbor Times, December 19, 1940, p.1. 3 Bar Harbor Times, September 12, 1940, p.1. 4 A special thanks to Messrs. | |
| Start of FOA-Acadia NP's 2013 Volunteer Season Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Start of FOA-Acadia NP's 2013 Volunteer Season Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2013-04-25 Start of FOA-Acadia NP's 2013 Volunteer Season.pdf …The volunteers are under the aegis of Friends of Acadia, an independent nonprofit located in Bar Harbor, ME, with work projects selected by Acadia National …Kebo Brook Trail (purple) Strath Eden Path stone at trail junction A nice feature of the Kebo Brook Trail is its easy accessibility from downtown Bar …Harbor via the Great Meadow Loop Trail. …GPS location: N44 21.997' W068 12.765' 3 See blog post "A Memorial Walk: Bar Harbor to Sieur de Monts," dated June 24, 2012. | |
| Unexpected Finds in a National Park Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Unexpected Finds in a National Park Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2014-04-21 Unexpected Finds in a National Park.pdf …(Higgins) Fitzgerrell (1811-1898) of Bar Harbor on July 28, 1839. …They had six children, three sons and three daughters, all born in Bar Harbor between 1840 and 1852. …Bar Harbor Times, December 3, 1919, p.4. 3 Newman grave GPS coordinates: N44 22.674' W068 15.473'. | |
| The Barque of Barque Beach in Bernard Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Barque of Barque Beach in Bernard Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Barque Beach - The Barque.pdf …Captain Moore took her in over Bass Harbor bar 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." - Bar Harbor Mount Desert …(Written for the Record) Bar Harbor Record, Thursday, December 4, 1890. …E.N.B. - Bar Harbor Record, Thursday, December 4, 1890. History is not always kind to historians, but this search proved the exception. | |||
| Hiking the Trails of Acadia NP's Schoodic Peninsula Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Hiking the Trails of Acadia NP's Schoodic Peninsula Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2013-05-15 Hiking the Trails of Acadia NP's Schoodic Peninsula.pdf …National Park across Frenchman Bay that is off the beaten track for Park visitors to Mount Desert Island, as it is about a 48-mile, 75-minute drive from Bar …Harbor, ME. …Moore earlier had established the Grindstone Neck community in Winter Harbor as an optional wealthy enclave to those on Schoodic Head summit station benchmark …The site was the innovation of New Yorker and Bar Harbor summer resident Alessandro Fabbri, who established it in 1917 during WW I. | |
| The Magnificent and Mysterious Homans Path Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Magnificent and Mysterious Homans Path Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2012-04-20_The_Magnificent_and_Mysterious_Homans_Path.pdf …They lived at the "Homans Cottage" on property abutting the south side of the Schooner Head Overlook, 3.8 miles south of Bar Harbor's village green. …Charles died in Bar Harbor in 1886; Eliza died there 28 years later. Both are buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA. | |
| Acadia National Park's Little-Known Mountain Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Acadia National Park's Little-Known Mountain Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2014-06-04 Acadia National Park's Little-Known Mountain.pdf …In 1896 it was changed to "Dan Brewers Mt" on the Bar Harbor 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 Bar Harbor from its prominent 1530' summit. | |
| New Facts Concerning the Cross on Flying Mountain Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  New Facts Concerning the Cross on Flying Mountain Southwest Harbor Public Library 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 |