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Sutton Island Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Sutton Island Northeast Harbor Library Description: One of the five Cranberry Islands, Sutton Island is today occupied only during the summer months. | |||
Gilley - John Gilley (1822-1896) Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Gilley - John Gilley (1822-1896) Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: John Gilley would have been remembered for many things, but his death by drowning on October 12, 1896 between Northeast Harbor and Suttons Island and the memorial to him written by President Charles Eliot of Harvard insured his reputation. | ||
Sutton Island Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Sutton Island Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The earliest settlers on Sutton's Island were Joseph Lancaster of Sullivan and Isaac Richardson, son of James Richardson of Mount Desert. William and Joseph Moore were early settlers, also. William later moved to Bear Island and was the first keeper of the Bear Island light. Sutton, from whom the island now takes its name, was, perhaps, a squatter. It is thought that he removed to the Maritime Provinces. - “Mount Desert, A History” by George E. Street, Edited by Samuel A. Eliot, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1905. [show more] | ||
John Gilley House on Sutton Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| John Gilley House on Sutton Southwest Harbor Public Library |