Description: Volume IV 2001-2002 Larue Spiker and "America's Most Beautiful Island' By Elizabeth Redhead A Playground Contested: Bar Harbor Natives and Rusticators, 1875-1925 By Lynne Nelson Manion College of the Atlantic: The First Decades By William Carpenter Review- A History of Little Cranbery Island, ME By Michael McGiffert Review- The Story of Mount Desert Island By Carl Little
Description: Volume V 2003 Transcription of The Early Records of Mount Desert By Patti Leland- Hanson Boatbuilding During World War II MDI, Ellsworth, Stonington and Blue Hill By Ralph W. Stanley Establishing Dr. Abbe's Museum in Mr. Dorr's Park By Ronald H. Epp Ph.D The Green Mountain Railway Bar Harbor's Remarkable Cog Railroad By Peter Dow Bachelder Preview- The Story of Mt. Desert Island And Acadia National Park By Anne S. Funderburk Review- Cemeteries fo Canbery Isles and the Towns of Mount Desert Island ByMichael McGiffert [show more]
Description: Volume III 2000 C. C. Little and The Founding of The Jackson Laboratory By Martha Harmon The Episcopal Church Comes to Mount Desert Island By The Rev. Edwin Atlee Garrett, III Th. M. Making America Work: A Look at Christians and Jews on Mount Desert Island By Judith Goldstein Review- A History of Bartlett's Island, Mount Desert, Maine By Michael McGiffert
Description: Side view of Stone Barn on at intersection of Crooked Road and Norway Drive. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Owen are barn owners. Photographed in May 2006. The farm itself dates to 1850. The barn was built in 1907 by the Shea Brothers of Ellsworth, masonry contractors and builders who had purchased the property. The first story is constructed of glacial stone and granite. The gambrel-roofed barn has housed both sheep and goats. The Stone Barn is on the National Register of historic structures. Mr. and Mrs. Owen have been stewards of the 167 acre farm for over 40 years and have deeded the farm to a conservation trust. A road running between the carriage house to the right of the barn and the farm house led over the brook and up the hill to salt marsh land. The Owens have produced lettuce (6,000-8,000 heads a year), strawberries and beans, goat milk, and other goat mile products which were sold to local restaurants and markets. For years, giant sunflowers stood in a half circle plot on the front lawn. The sheep shed at the rear of the barn was built in the 1960s. The carriage house (not visible in the photograph) was probably somewhat older than the barn, and had front and rear doors so that the carriage could be driven in one end and out the other. [show more]
Description: Photograph of the gambrel-roofed Pooler Barn, formerly a working dairy barn, located on Route 3 in Bar Harbor 1.9 miles east of traffic light at the head of the island. Photograph taken in May 2006. The farm originally had 200-plus acres behind and beside the Victorian house to the left of the barn. Northeast Creek runs through the original farm fields. The property was divided in 2006 between land for affordable housing and the remaining house and barn. In August 2006, there were still stanchions and cages in the main barn building. [show more]
Description: Formerly known as Gray's Farm Dairy; gambrel roofed. Once at the heart of the farm district which fed the Bar Harbor rusticators; barn no longer used for agriculture. Taken during Barns of Yesterday tour
Description: Constructed by 1810 and named for its original owner; placed on National Register of Historic Places in 2003. Its one-story timber-framed English bard form is one of the finest examples of this style and of barn craftmanship. Ichabod Higgins's family moved to MDI from Cape Cod in 1778 to settle in the small Island community of Somesville. It wasn't until the early 1800's that this ridge of land outside the village was established as an agricultural area. The barn has been in continuous use since its construction. [show more]
Description: Queen Anne style; attached to 1830's center-chimney cape house; located on Beech Hill Road, once the main road from Somesville to Southwest Harbor.
Description: Constructed in 1810 and named for original owner; placed on National Register of Historic Places in 2003. The one-story timber-framed English barn is one of the finest examples of this style and of barn craftmanship. Ichabod Higgins's family moved to MDI from Cape Cod in 1778 to settle in the small Island community of Somesville. Not until the early 1800's did this ridge of land outside the village become and agricultural area. The barn has been in continuous use since its construction. [show more]
Description: Built in 1842, but not in use as working farm for many years. Frequently a site for weddings; in the beginning of Somesville's development this farm occupied the whole south end of the harbor, where cows roamed the cleared woods.
Description: Photograph of the Stone Barn on the Crooked Road in Bar Harbor. Photo taken on August 5, 2006 during "Barns of Yesterday" tour sponsored by the MDI Historical Society. Inset photo shows plaque recognizing Stone Barn's listing on the National Register of Historic Places. Right barn door is open; American flag hangs on left door. Two people are looking at the vIntage car on right side of barn. Two people seated behind table on the left side of the driveway, talking to two other people. Farm implement in left foreground, tractor to right. [show more]
Description: Photograph of the Higgins Barn on Oak Hill Road in Bar Harbor. Photo taken on August 5, 2006 during "Barns of Yesterday" tour sponsored by the MDI Historical Society. Inset photo shows plaque recognizing Higgins Barn's listing on the National Register of Historic Places. Sunflowers to left of barn, red flowers on farm implement in foreground.