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Description of Cape Cod towns
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Other, Barnstable, MA
  • Other, Dennis, MA
  • Other, Eastham, MA
  • Other, Yarmouth, MA
Description of Cape Cod towns
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Photocopied text from unknown source describing towns of Cape Cod: Dennis, Yarmouth, Barnstable and Eastham where Mayo's settled.
A Pioneer Family: The Richardsons of Mount Desert
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Other, Marriage
  • Hamblen, Charles F
  • 1976
A Pioneer Family: The Richardsons of Mount Desert
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Portion of Maine Historical Society Prize Essay, 1976, pertaining to 1770 incident between crew member of a Royal Navy ship and a local Bunker young woman.
First Permanent Settler: Abraham Somes
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Settlements
  • Sawtelle, William Otis
  • 1926
First Permanent Settler: Abraham Somes
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Singe page photocopy of partial article from "Sprague's Journal of Maine History", Vol. 14. Text describes the settlement of Mount Desert Island by Abraham Somes.
Morris Somes Arrrival in Gloucester
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Other, Emigration & immigration
Morris Somes Arrrival in Gloucester
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Handwritten note speculating on ways in which Morris Somes arrived at Cape Ann, Massachusetts, from England.
Somesville and Hall Quarry Historical Summaries
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Other, Hall Quarry
  • Other, Poetry
  • Other, Somesville
  • Doris Grant
Somesville and Hall Quarry Historical Summaries
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
One double-sided mimeographed page which includes two historical essays: "Somesville, a Pleasant Place, A Goodly Heritage" and "Hall Quarry, An Interesting Place" and well as one unattributed poem, "The Cemetery Road."
Somesville Firsts
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Other, Somesville
Somesville Firsts
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
One page mimeographed page listing 'firsts' associated with Somesville, Maine.
Notes on History of Somesville, Maine
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Other, Historic buildings
  • Other, History
  • Other, Somesville
  • Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Notes on History of Somesville, Maine
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Four pages of handwritten notes on the history of Somesville, ME, drawn from the book, "The Living Past" authored by Virginia Somes Sanderson.
History of Somesville, Betwixt the Hills
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Other, History
  • Other, Somesville
  • Other, Walking tour
  • Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • 1994
History of Somesville, Betwixt the Hills
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
14 page photocopy of History of Somesville, including scripts for costumed guides, for use in a walking tour of Somesville.
S.A.E and Champlain Society
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • A.L. Rand
  • Unknown
S.A.E and Champlain Society
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
1 handwritten pages Copy of document shows a short choncology of the S.A.E. and the Champlain Society from 1884-1887 as written by A.L. Rand Secretary.
History of Tremont Lodge, No. 77
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Other, History - Miscellaneous
  • Other, Lodges
History of Tremont Lodge, No. 77
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
History of Tremont Lodge, No. 77, Free and Accepted Masons, Tremont, Me., From 1854 to 1871. By, Andrew ____ (cover is torn)
History of Somesville Maine
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, History
History of Somesville Maine
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Pamphlet on the history of Somesville, Maine from 1761-1961 designed to give tourist relevant history.
Battle of Norwood's Cove
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Other, Battle of Norwood's Cove
  • Other, Military history
  • Ezra Dodge
Battle of Norwood's Cove
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Four page handwritten document describing the Battle of Norwood's Cove, a skirmish between settlers of Mt. Desert Island and a British Frigate, Tenedos. Stated to be part of LaRue Spiker Collection, from a file marked "Mrs. Dorr."
The Battle of Norwood Cove
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Other, Battle of Norwood's Cove
  • Other, Military history
The Battle of Norwood Cove
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Handwritten nine page document of unknown authorship describing a battle between settlers on Mt. Desert Island and a British frigate in pre-revolutionary period. Stated to be part of LaRue Spiker Collection, from file marked "Mrs. Dorr."
Continuation from Dr. Leavitt
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Other, Churches
  • Other, History - Somesville
  • People
  • 1/28/2001
Continuation from Dr. Leavitt
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Continuation from Dr. Leavitt Since 1940 --60 Years have passed! History continuting from the Sermon / historical address given by Rev. Horace H. Leavitt, D.D. on the history of the Somesville Union Meeting House, U.C.C. by Gail Reiber
First Church of Mount Desert Church Records 1792-1867
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Other, Baptisms
  • Structures, Ceremonial, Church
First Church of Mount Desert Church Records 1792-1867
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Mount Desert Church Records, Vol. 73 of ? Source N.E. Genealogical Society, Boston. Short history of church from its founding on Oct 17, 1792. List founders, those later admitted and deaths. Record of baptisms. At end list members of those connected to the Congregational Church in Temont, Mt. Desert, and Eden in 1857,
Odd Fellows History
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • 1963
Odd Fellows History
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Journal of Proceedings
Summary
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Eliot, Charles
  • 1881
Summary
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
A single sheet summary of early explorers of the New England Coast 1498-1759. This sheet was found in "Charles Eliot's notes on the early explorers of the New England coast." item 005.17.19
Town of Mount Desert in the Civil War; 1st Maine Heavy Artillery
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Other, Civil wars
Description:
Lists and statistics
History of the Eden Baptist Church, 1799-1949
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, History
History of the Eden Baptist Church, 1799-1949
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Photocopies of the History of the Eden Baptist Church, 1799-1949, by Mrs. Francis Clark Grindle (which includes copies of handwritten church records). Names in the history include: Young, Emery, Grindle, Mayo, Leland, Eaton, Higgins, Hull, Hamor, Thomas, Hadley, Lord, Merrill, Huntting, Gilkley, Cary, Rich, Herrick, DeLaittre, Paine, Hamilton, Rockefeller, Hodgkins, Snow, Case, Murphy, Smallidge, Stanwood, Haynes, Thompson, Wasgatt, Stetson, Jackson, Swett, and Salisbury. [show more]
Libraries
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Other, Libraries
Libraries
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
History of Somesville Library Association including account of "shingling bee" to install roof, By-Laws of Mt. Desert Library Society, 1914 special meeting notes re death of Mary Somes, Minutes of 1956 annual meeting, 1905 application for incorporation of Mt. Desert Library Society and response from Justice of the Peace, undated list of library books, 1974 list of classical records donated, Program for new library Open House, 1974, Northeast Harbor Library annual report, 1997, Essay, "The New Library," undated, no author given, Chronology by Emily Smith, secretary, beginning with 1904. Composition book, Mt. Desert Library Society, Records of meetings, 1932-1952. [show more]
These Hundred Years
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • 02/09/2010
These Hundred Years
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
History of The Hancock Association of Congregational Churches and Ministers (1825-1925)
These Hundred Years
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Other, Churches
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
  • Other, History - Somesville
  • 1/1/1925
These Hundred Years
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
These Hundred Years History of the Hancock Association of Congregational Churches and Ministers 1825 -1925 Compiled by George S. Brookes Includes the history of Congregational Churches on Mount Desert Island Two Copies
"The Mount Desert Larger Parish: A Church Co-op That Works", a 12-page booklet by Leigh Mitchell Hodges written in 1942.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Other, Churches
  • Other, Mount Desert
  • 1942
Description:
"The Mount Desert Larger Parish: A Church Co-op That Works", a 12-page booklet by Leigh Mitchell Hodges written in 1942.
The Claremont Hotel--My Story, 1884-1964
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Other, Claremont Hotel
  • Other, Hotels
The Claremont Hotel--My Story, 1884-1964
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
7-page typewritten booklet, written by "the hotel." Mentions other hotels on MDI at time, how travelers got there, first owners Jesse and Grace Clark Pease, subsequent owner Dr. J.D. Phillips, then his son Lawrence Phillips
Mount Desert Island Cultural History Project
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Other, Business enterprises
  • Other, Cottages
  • Other, Deed
  • Other, Hotels
  • Other, Monuments & memorials
  • Dec. 29 2009
Mount Desert Island Cultural History Project
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Mount Desert Island Cultural History Project: Website Listings as of 29 December, 2009, compiled by Thomas Vining (www.vfthomas.com) White loose-leaf binder references businesses and professions, cottages, deeds, hotels and borading houses, markers, monuments, and memorials. Information through mid-1900s; gives references to advertisements in local newspapers.