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You searched for: Year start: 1900Year end: 1910Contributor: Southwest Harbor Public LibrarySubject: BusinessesType: Reference
Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Simeon Holden Mayo's Boatshop and Wharf
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Simeon Holden Mayo's Boatshop and Wharf
Southwest Harbor Public Library
R.M. Norwood Company
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Building Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
R.M. Norwood Company
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
The R.M. Norwood Company did the original construction of the Wendell Gilley Museum.
R.J. Lemont's Drug Store
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
R.J. Lemont's Drug Store
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Dr. Lemont’s first Drug Store was on the second floor of the large barn of Deacon Henry Higgins Clark’s original house. The house was by that time the Island House Hotel before it was greatly enlarged in 1885.
Mrs. Lawton's Tea Room and Candy Shop
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Mrs. Lawton's Tea Room and Candy Shop
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Mrs. Lawton's Tea Room and Gift Shop offered souvenirs, post cards, home made ice cream and "all kinds of cut flowers in season."
Mount Desert Yacht Yard Inc.
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Mount Desert, Sound
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Mount Desert Yacht Yard Inc.
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Mount Desert Yacht Yard began as a yacht storage and repair business, but became a design and building yard, particularly during the late 1940s and 1950s because of Butler and associates, Ted Earl and Cy Hamlin.
McEachern & Hutchins Hardware Store
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
McEachern & Hutchins Hardware Store
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Started as a contracting business in 1949, Archie McEachern bought out his uncle Jasper Hutchins in 1957 and transitioned the business to a lumber and hardware supply. The store expanded to multiple locations and was taken over by Archie's son, Les.
Manset Marine Supply Company
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Manset Marine Supply Company
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Jimmy’s Lunch Room, Lobster Pound and Gas Station
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Description:
The business started when Jimmy moved an old building he had been using to house chickens from his property on Clark Point Road, to the end of Clark Point and began to sell lobsters from it. He then expanded it in to a lunch room and installed gas pumps out front.
Jarvis Newman Boat Yard
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Jarvis Newman Boat Yard
Southwest Harbor Public Library
James Parker's Wharf
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
James Parker's Wharf
Southwest Harbor Public Library
J.N. Mills & Co. Cash Store
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
J.N. Mills & Co. Cash Store
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
In 1914 Jesse Newell Mills and his sister, Cora Enola Mills opened a hardware and grocery store, the J.N. Mills Cash Store, on Clark Point in the second old Clark & Parker store at 172 Clark Point Road, Southwest Harbor, Maine across the road from what would later be the site of the J.N. Mills Co., Inc. fuel oil business.
Hot Flash Anny
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Business Shop
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Hot Flash Anny
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Freeman's Wharf
Farnsworth Fish Factory
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Freeman's Wharf
Farnsworth Fish Factory
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Built by John T.R. Freeman around 1885. The wharf was occupied by several canning businesses at various times
Beal's Fish Wharf
Fred Fernald Lobster Business
B.R. Simmons Lobster Business
H.R. Beal & Sons
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Beal's Fish Wharf
Fred Fernald Lobster Business
B.R. Simmons Lobster Business
H.R. Beal & Sons
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Clark and Parker Original Store
Pier One - Dock End
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Clark and Parker Original Store
Pier One - Dock End
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Clark and Parker 2nd Store
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Clark and Parker 2nd Store
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Bunker and Ellis Boat Company
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Bunker and Ellis Boat Company
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Founded by Ralph Ellis and Raymound Adelbert Bunker in 1947 The company passed to Ralph Ellis' son Don and continues today as Ellis Boats
Bryant Bradley Studio, Bar Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Photography Business
  • Bar Harbor
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Bryant Bradley Studio, Bar Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
The photography studio of Bryant Bradley in Bar Harbor. Bradley built a three-story office building on Main Street to house his business. He developed and printed his photos on site.
Augustus Clark’s Store, Barn & Bowling Alley
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Augustus Clark’s Store, Barn & Bowling Alley
Southwest Harbor Public Library
A.E. Parker Wharf and Boat Shop
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
A.E. Parker Wharf and Boat Shop
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Smallidge Farm
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Farming
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Smallidge Farm
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Bass Harbor Boat Shop
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Tremont, Bernard
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Bass Harbor Boat Shop
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Rich & Grindle Boatbuilders
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Rich & Grindle Boatbuilders
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Rich & Grindle Boatbuilders was founded in December 1946 when Roger Clifton Rich (1913-1996) and Ralph Merrill Grindle (1915-2005) formed a partnership to build boats in Roger's barn at Tracy Cove on Clark Point Road. The barn was next to Roger's house at 50 Clark Point Road.
William Cramp & Sons Shipbuilding Company
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • United States
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
William Cramp & Sons Shipbuilding Company
Southwest Harbor Public Library
McKinley Fish & Freezer Co.
The Cold Storage
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
McKinley Fish & Freezer Co.
The Cold Storage
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
“Maine – McKinley - The McKinley Fish & Freezer Co., recently organized, with S.S. Nickerson, president, is building a modern fish freezing and cold storage plant, the latter to have storage space for about 10,000 barrels of fish. Two 30-ton Palson absorption refrigerating machines will be installed. The sharp freezer, with capacity for about 200 barrels of fish per day, will be located on the third floor, all of which it will occupy, and will be piped with 25,000 feet of 1¼-inch d.e. piping. The two lower floors will be cooled by air circulation from the sharp freezer. A small ice making system will also be added. Plant is to be ready for operation in May. 1911.” – “Ice and Refrigeration” Vol. 39, by Southern Ice Exchange, published by H.S. Rich & Co., p. 317, 1910. The building, always known simply as the "Cold Storage," became Sim Davis' boat shop, later was owned by the Hinckley Co., part of the Morris Yachts property in 2008. Perry Warrington Richardson (1839-1918) was an early President (1915) of the McKinley Fish & Freezer Co. His son, Herbert Perry Richardson (1863-1938) was the Treasurer. [show more]