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Copies of photos taken on Islesford taken by Charles E. Cummings, pastor for Great Cranberry and Islesford
Islesford Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph
Book "Eldridge's Coast Pilot No.1"
Islesford Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
Book "Eldridge's Coast Pilot No.1"
Islesford Historical Society
Description:
Incription on the first page: George E. Gilley Islesford, Maine
US Life-Saving Service Ann. Report 1908
Islesford Historical Society
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
US Life-Saving Service Ann. Report 1908
Islesford Historical Society
Description:
See page 326 of reprt regaring award of a silver life-saving medel to Capt. Gilbert T. Hadlock.
US Life-Savind Servide ann. report 1911
Islesford Historical Society
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
US Life-Savind Servide ann. report 1911
Islesford Historical Society
Bowditch's Practical Navigator:1868 edition
Islesford Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Ted's career as a Merchant Marien officer and navigation was a specialty for him.
Landing -Force Manual, US Navy 1927
Islesford Historical Society
  • Document, Instructional, Manual
Landing -Force Manual, US Navy 1927
Islesford Historical Society
Description:
Signed on inside cover: E.C. Hadlock(Elmer C. Hadlock) Elmer was Ted's Cousin who spent his career in the US Navy and the Merchant Marine (Contains interesting sketches of military formations etc.)
A History of Little Cranberry Island, Maine By: Hugh Dwelley
Islesford Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Published in 2000 with additional printings in 2004. Published by the Islesford Historical Society
Baker Island Letters
Islesford Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
Baker Island Letters
Islesford Historical Society
Description:
Letters from Alfred Stanley to his parents on Baker Island from 1901 to1928
Report - "Island Indicators: a report by the Island Institute" prepared by Sarah Curran and Jeremy Gabrielson
Islesford Historical Society
  • Document, Report
Description:
Report contains data about topics such as lobstering, population, median age, income, affordability, etc.
Publication "Chebacco: The Magazine of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society" Volume VII 2005
Islesford Historical Society
  • Publication, Other Publication
Computer run of the Descendants of Jacob Lurvey
Islesford Historical Society
  • Document, List, Register, Family Register
Description:
Jacob Lurvey's daughter, Hannah , married William Gilley in 1802 and lived with him on Bakers Island where William was Lightkeeper. One of their sons, Samuel, married Emily Stanley in 1842 and they established the Gilley Farm on Islesford.
Computer run of the descendants of Phillip Stanwood
Islesford Historical Society
  • Document, List, Register, Family Register
Description:
Job Stanwood, 1726-1776 . Is thought to have settled for a few years on Islesford before moving to Duck Brook, now Bar Harbor. His grand daughter Mary Stanwood 1816-1888 moved back to Islesford as the wife of Edwin Hadlock. For a record of the Hadlocks of Islesford, see Islesford Historical Society Occasinal Paper # 6 3/1994.
“Maine Lobsterboats: Builders and lobstermen speak of their craft” by Virginia L. Thorndike, resident of Islesboro
Islesford Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
Description:
Has many references to MDI as well as Islesford and the Downeast area.
Book "All About Maine" by John E. Cayford. Published in 1981
Islesford Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
Publication "Sterling, Barnard & Related Familes, Volume I + II, by William C. Sterling, JR.
Islesford Historical Society
  • Publication, Other Publication
Description:
Appendix C in Vol. II contains a comprehensive coverage of the last days of Samuel Hadlock who was hanged at Pownalborough on October 28th, 1790 for beating Eliab Gott to death with a fence post
Cigar-box frame with photo showing the Islesford Congregational Church built in 1898, the home built for Edward and Lucinda Fernald in 1865 and, on the right, the house built by Lamont and Agnes (Hadlock) Spurling in 1886-87.
Islesford Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph
Description:
These frames were made of sticks and whittled from cigar boxes by surfmen at the Islesford Life Saving Station during their spare time. The photo shows the Main Road in circa. 1920's before it was paved. The photo and frame hung in the Spurling house and was given to the Islesford Historical Society by Cara Spurling in 2005.
Exploring Limits - Making Decisions About the Use and Development of Maine's Islands. April 1994
Islesford Historical Society
  • Document, Report
Description:
Report prepared by the Island Institute in cooperation with the Maine State Planning Office
Magazine "Maine Life Magazine" June 1978
Islesford Historical Society
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
Magazine "Maine Life Magazine" June 1978
Islesford Historical Society
Description:
Contains articles relating to Baxter Park, Winslow Homer, History of Jordan Pond, and others
two ledger books containing Francis G. Fernald'slobstering income and expenses records from 1947-1966 and from 1967-1975
Islesford Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
Description:
In January 1947 he was catching 85-160 lbs or so each day he got out . Selling for 40 to 50 centsa pound. In 1975 he was catching only 40 to 60 lbs a day . selling them for $1.40 to $1.60 a lb.
Sea Stories by Cpt.Francis Fernald
Islesford Historical Society
  • Document, Other Documents
Sea Stories by Cpt.Francis Fernald
Islesford Historical Society
Description:
A paper of stories told by Francis Fernald that was prepared by two young students at Southwest Harbor. The Students grandmother, Bernice Gaiser, was caring for Francis and Betty Fernald at a house in Southwest Harbor during the winter of 1994
Publication "Chebacco: The Magazine of the Mount Desert Historical Society Volume VII 2005"
Islesford Historical Society
  • Publication, Other Publication
Description:
Contains Hadlock's Eskimos in New York by Hugh Dwelley pages 52-66 and the last words and dying speech of Samuel L. Hadlock pages 107-111
A framed NOTICE of Station Bills & Drills required on steamers carrying passengers
Islesford Historical Society
  • Document, Other Documents
Description:
When not on display, in painting storage
US Navy Journal containing watch & navigational notes kept by Andrew E.Stanley as a deck officer on the Uss Chestnut Hill on a cruise from New London Conn. to Bermuda and the Azores and return to Key West Florida from Sept26 to Nov 22 1918
Islesford Historical Society
  • Publication, Book, Journal
Description:
USS Chestnut Hill appears to have been an oiler caring a cargo of gasoline and diesel oil which it pumped from time to time into the fuel tanks of USNavy vessels It sailed-often a zig zag course, in "convoy consisting of SC's... also tug Uss Conestoga."
Publication "Cranberry Isles, Glimpses of Island Life" by Gerry Noether. 28 Pages published in 1976
Islesford Historical Society
  • Publication, Other Publication
Description:
Author is a summer resident of GCI, mother of Audrey Noether
Maine History publication. Volume 40 Winter 2001/2 (A) Volume 41, 2002. Spring (B), Volume 42 October 2005 (C)
Islesford Historical Society
  • Publication, Other Publication