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  • Acadia National Park
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  • Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Eagle Lake
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Lake
  • Acadia National Park
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Eagle Lake
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Eagle Lake.pdf
…water is in some places over ten fathoms deep, and so sweet and pure that it furnishes a very satisfactory water supply to the cottages and hotels of BarHarbor. …During the summer season, several times each day, four horse barges run from Bar Harbor to Eagle Lake, a distance of 2 miles, through the forest, and …It is a quaint little stern wheel craft, formerly used on the Merrimac at Newburyport, and hauled up from Bar Harbor to Eagle Lake by a hundred oxen and
Echo Lake
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Lake
  • Acadia National Park
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Echo Lake
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Echo Lake is located on the western side of Mount Desert Island. The lake is a popular swimming area and is surrounded by hiking trails on the nearby mountains.


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Echo Lake.pdf
…activities on Mount Desert Island that was considered an essential experience by early rusticators taking a buckboard ride between Somesville and Southwest Harbor …"The road to Somesville runs northward from [Southwest] harbor, and in about a mile form the Island House reaches the divergence of the Seal-Cove road. …the silvery waters of Somes Sound come into view, beyond the rugged rocks of Robinson Mountain; and the hotel on Green Mountain shows the direction of BarHarbor.
Eagle Lake and Cadillac Mountain
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Lake
  • Places, Mountain
  • Acadia National Park
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Eagle Lake and Cadillac Mountain
Southwest Harbor Public Library