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Main Street, Southwest Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Places, Town
  • Southwest Harbor
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Main Street, Southwest Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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“In 1897, the different societies in the village combined to raise funds for street lights. The lamps were bought and placed near those houses whose owners were willing to furnish the kerosene and keep the lamps trimmed and lighted. These lamps did duty until the installation of electricity in the summer of 1917.” - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 124. [show more]
Pickering Square
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Places, Town
  • Maine
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Pickering Square
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Pickering Square is bordered by Water Street and Merchants Plaza in downtown Bangor between Main Street and the Kenduskeag Stream. Now succumbed to urban renewal, historically it was the site of an open air market.
Village of Blue Hill
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Places, Town
  • Maine
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Village of Blue Hill
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Magnolia, Massachusetts
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Places, Town
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Magnolia, Massachusetts
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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"Just over the Manchester [Massachusetts] line in the western section of Gloucester is the major portion of the village of Magnolia at Magnolia Point, long one of the North Shore's most important hospitality tourism destinations… Originally a fishing and farming settlement, Magnolia had its beginnings as a summer resort center in the early 1870s with the construction of the first summer cottages there…" - “Summer By The Seaside: The Architecture of New England Coastal Resort Hotels, 1820-1950” by Bryant F. Tolles, Jr., p. 99, University Press of New England – 2008 [show more]
Brooks, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Places, Town
  • Maine
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Brooks, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Town of Tremont
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Places, Town
  • Tremont
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Town of Tremont
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Baddeck, Nova Scotia
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Places, Town
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Baddeck, Nova Scotia
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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A small village on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia
Gloucester
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Places, Town
  • New England
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Gloucester
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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“Occupying the major portion of Cape Ann is the nationally renowned fishing and tourism city of Gloucester, its rugged, scenic southern coastline extending from Magnolia Point to Gloucester Harbor, Eastern Point, Bass Rocks, and Cape Hedge. Thirty-one miles from Boston, initially on the Eastern and then the Boston & Maine railroads, this venerable community, including Magnolia Point…, became the North Shore’s most significant summer resort center in the mid to late nineteenth century, boasting numerous single-season residences and the largest concentration of resort hotels between Boston and the southern coastline of Maine.” - “Summer By The Seaside: The Architecture of New England Coastal Resort Hotels, 1820-1950” by Bryant F. Tolles, Jr., p. 102-3, University Press of New England – 2008 [show more]
Brooklin, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Places, Town
  • Maine
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Brooklin, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Village of Somesville
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Places, Town
  • Mount Desert, Somesville
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Village of Somesville
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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The Village of Somesville i on the Registry of Historic Places as the Somesville Historic District #75000092.
Village of Frenchboro
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Village of Frenchboro
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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See “Hauling by Hand: The Life and Times of a Maine Island” by Dean Lawrence Lunt, 1999 See “Frenchboro, Long Island Plantation Maine” by Vivian Lunt, 1976 See “Frenchboro, Long Island Plantation: The First Hundred Years” by Vivian Lunt, 1980
Village of Pretty Marsh
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Places, Town
  • Mount Desert, Pretty Marsh
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Village of Pretty Marsh
Southwest Harbor Public Library
City of Ellsworth, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Places, Town
  • Maine
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City of Ellsworth, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
City of Belfast, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Places, Town
  • Maine
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City of Belfast, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
City of Cambridge, Massachusetts
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Places, Town
  • New England
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City of Cambridge, Massachusetts
Southwest Harbor Public Library
City of Bangor, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Places, Town
  • Maine
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City of Bangor, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Village of Manset and Manset Shore
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Places, Town
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
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Village of Manset and Manset Shore
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Town of Northeast Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Places, Town
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
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Town of Northeast Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Town of Southwest Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Places, Town
  • Southwest Harbor
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Town of Southwest Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Sorrento, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Places, Town
  • Maine
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Sorrento, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Seal Cove, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Places, Town
  • Tremont, Seal Cove
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Seal Cove, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Ipswich, Massachusetts
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Places, Town
  • New England
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Ipswich, Massachusetts
Southwest Harbor Public Library
West Tremont
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Places, Town
  • Tremont, West Tremont
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West Tremont
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Southwest Harbor, Maine, 1921 Sanborn Map
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Places, Town
  • Southwest Harbor
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Southwest Harbor, Maine, 1921 Sanborn Map
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
This items ties together sheets 1, 2, and 3, a set of three maps depicting Southwest Harbor, Maine as of September 1921. The upper right corner of Sheet 1 shows the winter population as 206 and the summer population as 1500.
Village of Bernard
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Places, Town
  • Tremont, Bernard
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Village of Bernard
Southwest Harbor Public Library