File Attachment: 2015-09-08 The Gurnee Path -- Built, Endowed and Abandoned.pdf …In its August notes of that year the BarHarbor VIA stated the following: Mr. …He was among the original incorporators of the BarHarbor VIA. …in scholarship, $10,000 to the BarHarbor YMCA, and $5,000 to the BarHarbor VIA to maintain the How memorial on a triangular lot he deeded to the VIA …Grandgent, 1928, p.79. 3 BarHarbor Times, July 3, 1941, p.4. 4 North entrance/pull-off GPS coordinates: N44 24.530' W068 14.478' 5 BarHarbor Record
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 BarHarbor. It was noted in 1869 by Benjamin F. De Costa. …Harbor ca.1915 Pulpit Rock - BarHarbor today Mountains.*3 That same year a newspaper article describing the Cadillac Mountain path system stated, " …Bates, Rand and Jaques. 1896. 4 BarHarbor Record. …Revised and published by William Jay Turner. 1941. 9 BarHarbor Times. September 15, 1960, p. 1.
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 BarHarbor. …The 4-acre pond was owned by Charles How, a Bostonian who came to BarHarbor in 1870. …How of the Fawn Pond and forty acres of land to the BarHarbor Village Improvement Association 1906. …*Footnotes: 1 BarHarbor Record, December 1, 1892, p.4. 2 BarHarbor Record September 21, 1898, p.5. 3 BarHarbor Times, March 28, 1934, p.7. 4 I am thankful
File Attachment: 2013-12-09 The Emery Path -- Another Historic Gem in Acadia NP.pdf …John continued his involvement in BarHarbor, where he was a member of the BarHarbor Village Improvement Association's Roads and Paths committee under …The construction of The Turrets wasn't Emery's first time in BarHarbor. …He was there at least by 1881, when he stayed at theRodick House hotel, and continued to visit BarHarbor thereafter. …BarHarbor Mount Desert Herald, July 17, 1881, p.2. 3 The Turrets is now a campus administrative building of the College of the Atlantic. 4 BarHarbor
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 BarHarbor Times photograph, which shows a cross on top of Flying Mountain …"*2 BarHarbor 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 BarHarbor and other structures on Mount Desert Island. …*Footnotes: 1 BarHarbor Times, March 19, 1924, p. 3. 2 Eliot retired as president of Harvard in 1909, a position he had held for 40 years.
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 BarHarbor. …In 1902 Mary Curran, now a widow, sold the property to Frank Brewer, who sold it to the BarHarbor Water Company in 1915. …Harbor's water supply. …It is interesting to note that Nicholas complained to the BarHarbor Water Company in 1897 about the loss of his property shoreline due to the higher water
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 BarHarbor a few years later. …An entrepreneurial graduate of Harvard, he launched a successful horticultural nursery and a granite quarrying business in BarHarbor. …There are two peaks on its popular ridgeline, which overshadows downtown BarHarbor's southwest flank.
File Attachment: 2012-12-03 Acadia National Park's Discarded Sweet Waters of Acadia Slab.pdf …In 1915 the BarHarbor Times published that the Sieur de Monts Spring Company, a Maine corporation headed by George B. …One of these, Meadow Road, led from BarHarbor'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 BarHarbor Times, 9/18/1915; p. 1. 3 BarHarbor Times
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 BarHarbor. …McFarland Field today looking north to McFarland Hill *Footnotes: 1 These downhill venues are mentioned in numerous BarHarbor 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 BarHarbor Times, September 12, 1940, p.1. 4 A special thanks to Messrs.
File Attachment: Precipice Trail - T.pdf …Funded by: BarHarbor Village Improvement Association and Rudolph Brunnow Rudolph Ernest Brunnow (1858-1917) Chairman of the Path Committee 1912-1917 He …"He died in the spring of 1917, leaving behind some of the most challenging, controversial, and highly crafted trails in the BarHarbor System " …BarHarbor Times, November 21, 1914, p. 1.
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 BarHarbor, 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: BarHarbor to Sieur de Monts," dated June 24, 2012.
File Attachment: 2014-04-21 Unexpected Finds in a National Park.pdf …(Higgins) Fitzgerrell (1811-1898) of BarHarbor on July 28, 1839. …They had six children, three sons and three daughters, all born in BarHarbor between 1840 and 1852. …BarHarbor Times, December 3, 1919, p.4. 3 Newman grave GPS coordinates: N44 22.674' W068 15.473'.
File Attachment: 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 Bar …Harbor. …During the summer season, several times each day, four horse barges run from BarHarbor 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 BarHarbor to Eagle Lake by a hundred oxen and
File Attachment: Barque Beach - The Barque.pdf …Captain Moore took her in over Bass Harborbar 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." - BarHarbor Mount Desert …(Written for the Record) BarHarbor Record, Thursday, December 4, 1890. …E.N.B. - BarHarbor Record, Thursday, December 4, 1890. History is not always kind to historians, but this search proved the exception.
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 BarHarbor summer resident Alessandro Fabbri, who established it in 1917 during WW I.
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 BarHarbor's village green. …Charles died in BarHarbor in 1886; Eliza died there 28 years later. Both are buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA.
File Attachment: 2014-06-04 Acadia National Park's Little-Known Mountain.pdf …In 1896 it was changed to "Dan Brewers Mt" on the BarHarbor 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 BarHarbor from its prominent 1530' summit.
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
File Attachment: 2017-09-30 HCTPR - Acadia National Park's Newest Memorial.pdf …The first was the crest of Barr Hill near Seal Harbor from George B. Cooksey. The second was the Bee Hive mountain property from Eliza Lee Homans. …The third, from the trustees of the will of Linda Dows Cooksey, was the Sea Cliffs parcel near Seal Harbor that contained the Champlain Monument.*2 Prior …That plaque is just off the path on the east side of Jordan Pond. *3 *Footnotes: 1 HCTPR memorial coordinates: N44 21.01595 W068 13.81764 2 BarHarbor
File Attachment: 2015-04-19 The Dole Trail.pdf …S u n d a y, A p r i l 1 9 , 2 0 1 5 2015 Don Lenahan The Dole Trail The Dole Trail was an historic trail in Southwest Harbor on Maine's Mount Desert …The map also showed it linking to a path heading west along the Connor Cove shoreline to the mouth of Norwood Cove at the Southwest Harbor causeway, where …In his autobiography Dole recounted his first visit to MDI: "In 1876 we went to BarHarbor. …"*5 Two of the earliest summer residents of Southwest Harbor, he and Frances bought land in 1884 and built The Ledge, their summer home on Fernald Point
Description: 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.
File Attachment: 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 Bar …Harbor.
Description: Great Head is located near Sand Beach in Acadia National Park. The area was owned in the early 1900s by the Satterlee family and they built an observatory and a tea house on the point. The ruins of the structure remain. J.P. Morgan had purchased 110 acres on the Maine coast at Mount Desert including Great Head, now given to Acadia National Park, as a gift for his daughter, Louisa. She and her husband Herbert Satterlee had built their country home there and enjoyed it for many years. [show more]
File Attachment: Great Head.pdf …Great Head is a prominent object when passing from BarHarbor to Southwest Harbor by water. No description can do justice to its savage grandeur.
File Attachment: Otter Creek Cliffs.pdf …Benjamin Franklin De Costa (1831-1904) "Otter Cliffs The drive from BarHarbor to the Otter Cliffs is five miles, and the road, nearly parallel with