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Opening Day at the Bar Harbor-Yarmouth Ferry Terminal, Bar Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Transportation, Terminal, Marine Terminal
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • Vessels, Merchant Vessel, Ferry
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1956-06-08
  • Bar Harbor
  • In Copyright
Description:
...Ballard wrote this note on the negative sleeve for the photograph: "“Bluenose” Ferry Terminal, Bar Harbor, ME; taken the day the Bar Harbor-Yarmouth ferry...
Deep Sea Fishing Boats at Bar Harbor Negative, 1961
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Negative
  • Other
  • Recreation
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Pier
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat
  • Vessels, Commercial Fishing Vessel
  • Ballard, W. H.
  • 1961
  • Bar Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Deep Sea Fishing Boats at Bar Harbor Negative, 1961
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
...Deep sea fishing boats "Osprey" and "Acadian" at the docks in Bar Harbor, ME. Black and white...
"Daisy on Daisy" - Margaret Arnold Rand Side Saddle at Bar Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Albumen Print
  • Nature, Animals
  • People
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf
  • Rand - Henry Lathrop Rand (1862-1945)
  • 1892-08-19
  • Bar Harbor
  • No Copyright - United States
Description:
...This photograph was taken on Newport Avenue in Bar Harbor, slightly south of the present-day Agamont Park. Porcupine Island is in the background...
Bar Harbor Boat Landing
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Dock
  • Bar Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Bar Harbor Boat Landing
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Municpal Pier at Bar Harbor, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Town
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Dock
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1964-08
  • Bar Harbor
  • In Copyright
Municpal Pier at Bar Harbor, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Egg Rock Light, Bar Harbor, ME
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Transportation, Lighthouse
  • Bar Harbor
Egg Rock Light, Bar Harbor, ME
Northeast Harbor Library
Bar Harbor Wharf and Steamer Mount Desert
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Harbor
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf
  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • Bar Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Bar Harbor Wharf and Steamer Mount Desert
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Bluenose I at the Bar Harbor - Yarmouth Ferry Terminal
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Structures, Transportation, Terminal, Marine Terminal
  • Vessels, Merchant Vessel, Ferry
  • Knaut - Paul A. Knaut, Jr.
  • Bar Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Duck Brook Motor Bridge
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Structures, Transportation, Bridge
  • Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service
  • Bar Harbor
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Duck Brook Motor Bridge
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
The largest bridge that you've probably never seen on Mount Desert Island is the Duck Brook Motor Road Bridge. Ironically, anyone who drives the Park Loop Road, starting from the Hulls Cove Visitor Center, travels over the bridge (located here), but few people see the bridge itself. That's too bad since it is by far the longest and tallest bridge in the park. In fact, it's the largest continuous concrete arch deck bridge in the eastern United States. At 402' long (not counting the 65' approaches on each side) and having a center arch span of 95', it dwarfs every carriage road bridge in the park, the longest being Amphitheater at 245' and the tallest being Duck Brook at 43' (yes, there are two Duck Brook bridges, one for people and bikes, and this one for cars). An architectural drawing of the bridge indicates a height of 100' from the top of the 30" high parapet guardwall to the water below. So how does the largest road-related structure in Acadia National Park go unnoticed? There are three reasons. First, from above you might not realize you are driving over a bridge because the roadway and shoulders look much like other portions of the loop road. If you happen to park at the turnout located southeast of the bridge, then walk atop the bridge and look over the side, you only get a glimpse of the three stone arches. To really see them, you have to hike down to the brook, but there is no trail and the terrain is dangerously steep. Second, the only view from below is along the narrow and busy stretch of Route 3 between Sonogee and the Holiday Inn. At 40 mph, you wouldn't see the bridge even if you knew the exact instant when and where to look. Finally, from below, the bridge is almost entirely obscured in summer by deciduous trees growing in the deep ravine that the bridge spans. To see this magnificent structure which was constructed from 1950 to 1953 using granite from Hall Quarry in Somesville, you have to seek it out at the right time of year. The Duck Brook Motor Road Bridge is truly a hidden architectural and historical gem. John D. Rockefeller purchased the land for the Paradise Hill Road where the bridge is located, donated the land to to the park, and was involved in planning the road as early as 1934, but World War II and subsequent funding shortages delayed the start of construction. As many as 75 men were on the job at one time with total labor estimated at 92,000 hours. Total cost of the structure was $366,000 making it the most expensive road-related structure in the park at the time of its completion. George Soules - November 2015 [show more]


File Attachments:
Duck Brook Motor Bridge.pdf
…Brook Motor Bridge Name: Duck Brook Bridge What: Bridge Location: Spans Duck Brook on Paradise Hill Road, 1 mile SE of Hulls Cove Visitor Center Town: BarHarbor State: Maine Map and Lot Numbers: Map: US GEO 1956 ANP - Duck Brook Bridges GPS (Global Positioning System) Latitude, Longitude: 44.399176,

me0254data.pdf
…DUCK BROOK BRIDGE Acadia National Park Roads & Bridges Spanning Duck Brook on Paradise Hill Road Bar Harbor Vicinity Hancock County Maine WRITTEN HISTORICAL …LOCATION Spanning Duck Brook on Paradise Hill Road, 1 mile SE of Hulls Cove Visitor Center, Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor vicinity. …Bar Harbor, ME: Friends of Acadia, 1993. Newspaper Articles "Acadia's Stone Bridges Link Past and Future," Bar Harbor [ME] Times, 23 April 1987. …Bar Harbor, ME. Brown's Studio,
Egg Rock Light
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Structures, Transportation, Lighthouse
  • Bar Harbor
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Egg Rock Light
Southwest Harbor Public Library
File Attachment:
Egg Rock Light.pdf
…Lighthouse - Light Station History Egg Rock Light State: Maine Town: Winter Harbor Year Established: 1875 Location: Between Bar Harbor and Winter Harbor …Benjamin Sawyer, (1817-1892) Seal Cove, Tremont, Maine, was postmarked Bar Harbor, March 7, 1892. The letter was written by Lewis F.
Hamor Wharf
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf
  • Bar Harbor
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Hamor Wharf
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Maine Central RR Wharf and Ferry Landing
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf
  • Bar Harbor
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Maine Central RR Wharf and Ferry Landing
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Egg Rock Light Station
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Transportation, Lighthouse
  • Bar Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Egg Rock Light Station
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Maine Central RR Wharf
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf
  • Bar Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Maine Central RR Wharf
Southwest Harbor Public Library