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| The Bar Harbor Fire: Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  The Bar Harbor Fire: Northeast Harbor Library Description: ...Ruth Donnell Coombs, switchboard operator at Seal Harbor recalls the fire of 1947 that burned Bar Harbor... | |
| The Bar Harbor Fire Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  The Bar Harbor Fire Northeast Harbor Library Description: ...Christine B Rowell recalls the 1947 Bar Harbor fire and her escape... | ||
| Bar Harbor Burning Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Bar Harbor Burning Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: Bar Harbor Burning-uncompressed.pdf …I REMEMBER Bar Harbor Burning A letter borne from the front lines of the Great Fire of 47 captures the enormity of the historic blaze. …In the living room three big win dows looked out over the bay and across to Bar Harbor. …We had planned to head for Bar Harbor to help out there, but we had to wait until the road reopened. …As we moved toward Bar Harbor we passed hundreds of fires burning on either side of the road. | |||
| Bar Harbor Burns Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Bar Harbor Burns Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: Bar Harbor Burns-uncompressed.pdf …WHIPPED BY 50-MILE-AN-HOUR WINDS WHICH MADE FIRE FIGHTING ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE, LEAPING FLAMES MAKE SHORT WORK OF BAR HARBOR BURNS $25 million forest fire …Desert Island, Maine, encircled the famed summer-resort town of Bar Harbor. …As the refugees pulled out, they could look, over AN ABANDONED SUMMER MANSION their shoulders and watch Bar Harbor s colony of palatial estates go …WHILE HOUSE BLAZES LIKE CARDBOARD BOX (BELOW), FLAMES SPREAD THROUGH TREES TO CONTINUE MARCH DOWN BAR HARBOR S MlLLIONAIRES ^ROW (OPPOSITE) | |||
| 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... | |||
| The Bar Harbor Fire Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  The Bar Harbor Fire Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: The Bar Harbor Fire-uncompressed.pdf …THE BAR HARBOR FIRE (Taken from Mount Desert - The Host Beautiful Island In The World by Sargent Collier) The great fire of 1947 was a crucible …Exhausted men eaugl.t brief naps on the floor of tho Bar Harbor Fire House, the command center, between calls to duty on the ever-shiting fire lines. …T The Paris Figaro on its front page screamed La ville de Bar Harbor est a deni detruite. …Le Figaro tried to imply that Bar Harbor had been fired by Maine peasants protesting great landed estates. | |||
| Bar Harbor: 40 Years Later Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Bar Harbor: 40 Years Later Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: Bar Harbor-40 Years Later-best quality.pdf …Although the substantial Bar Harbor summer cottage of A. …who made Bar Harbor and near by villages their summer playground. …Most of downtown Bar Harbor was saved. …The story of the Bar Harbor fire ran as front-page news worldwide. | |||
| Bar Harbor: 40 Years Later Jesup Memorial Library |
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| RFC Declares Bar Harbor Area Disaster Area Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  RFC Declares Bar Harbor Area Disaster Area Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: RFC Declares BH Disaster Area-uncompressed.pdf …While Guite supervises, Mary Clough receives a call from Kansas City inquiring about a friend at Bar Harbor. Mrs. Helen F. …Harbor) on a similar errand. …RFC Declares Bar Harbor Area Disaster Area (NEWS Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 While federal agencies marshaled aid to combat Maine …Harbor area a disaster area. | L. | |||
| The Maine Fire Story Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  The Maine Fire Story Northeast Harbor Library Description: ...Article about the 1947 fire that destroyed Bar Harbor... | |||
| 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... | |||
| Prologue: The Great Fire Memoir Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Prologue: The Great Fire Memoir Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: Prologue-The Great Fire-uncompressed.pdf …The wind shifted again, driving the fire toward the village of Bar Harbor. …From The Story of Bar Harbor by Richard Walden Hale, Jr 1 Bar Harbor Weather 1947 Oct 17 Friday 62 degrees Sunshine Oct 18 Saturday 65 degrees …returned to Bar Harbor later and joined the firefighters. …Frances Spear Seeley Pineo Lane Bar Harbor, Kaine January, 1977 | |||
| The Maine Fire Story Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  The Maine Fire Story Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: The Maine Fire Story-uncompressed.pdf …Wherever one travelled, sympathy was expressed for the small home owner, the permanent resident of Bar Harbor. …In the Bar Harbor Central Office every conceivable effort was being made to maintain communications. …The world famous Jackson Memorial Cancer Research Laboratory was directly in the path of the Bar Harbor fire. …Scenes such as this stretched for miles across the face of the Gold Coast of Bar Harbor on Mt. | |||
| The Great Fire of '47 Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  The Great Fire of '47 Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: The Great Fire of '47-uncompressed.pdf …The Great Fire of 47 LaRues Photos Courtesy of the Bar Harbor Historical Society. People hoped, and still no rain fell. …In Bar Harbor they were still It was quiet in the village of Bar Harbor today awfully quiet and quietly awful. …night and Bar Harbor was forever changed. …In Bar Harbor they were still work ing when the flames were within a quarter of a mile of the building. | |||
| Destroyed (partial article) / Fire of '47 Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Destroyed (partial article) / Fire of '47 Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: Destroyed-uncompressed.pdf …Onontakah Tourist cottage, owned by Andrew Peterson of Bar Harbor. The Rocklyn cottages owned by David Higginbotham of Bar Harbor. …Guy Torrey of New York and Bar Harbor. The Barnacles, owned by Arthur Liscomb of Bar Harbor. …HARBOR LANE Dustpan, owned by Dr. James Cunningham of Bar Harbor, Rexcote, owned by Joseph Kloman of Philadelphia. …Brown of Bar Harbor. Miller Cottage, a small hotel owned by Webster Harrington of Bar Harbor. Sunnyside, owned by Mrs. | |||
| Tight-Lipped Fire Evacuees Worried About Homes and Kin Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Tight-Lipped Fire Evacuees Worried About Homes and Kin Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: Tight Lipped Fire Evacuees Worried About Homes-uncompressed.pdf …She had just been evacuated from Bar Harbor s roaring inferno via Winter Harbor a few hours before and was somewhat dazed by what had taken place …The woman in the Ellsworth City Hall told how she was ordered to the Bar Harbor athletic field where a canteen was set up. …The wind had played havoc with ; Bar Harbor. …Now it had shifted and towns that had helped Bar Harbor needed help and the men weren t, going to let them down. | |||
| 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 Mayflower and Mount Desert Island Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Mayflower and Mount Desert Island Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Ralph Stanley has researched the people he knew on Mount Desert Island and their common ancestors who were Mayflower passengers and their descendents. File Attachment: Pilgrims - The Mayflower and Mount Desert Island.pdf …Eben Hamor in his History of Bar Harbor lists thirteen families from Eastham that were settled in Eden before 1779. …Israel Higgins took up land at Bar Harbor about 1771 and was living there with his wife and their son, Henry, then two years old. …branch of the Bar Harbor Banking and Trust Co. until she retired, Lawrence B. …Richardson, who now lives at Bar Harbor, Constance (Robbins) Stanley of Southwest Harbor and Jaylene Roths, former director of the Mount Desert Island | |
| Safe With A Few Belongings/It could Have Been Worse Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Safe With A Few Belongings/It could Have Been Worse Jesup Memorial Library |