Description: Advertising booklet of the Rock End Hotel and its cottages. Several exterior photographs of the hotel, the surrounding areas and the island are included, as well as floor plans of the buildings.
Description: The Old Homestead, a poem by E.T. Preble., reminisces about the Preble house on GCI and all the lives now past. The author of the poem is most likely Elmenia Thompson Spurling, b. 19 Aug 1840, who married first Ezra Carroll, then William Henry Preble. Elmenia had four children by Preble, one being Abby Lizzie Preble, b. 25 Sep 1865, d. 24 Dec 1901 in Chicago. (Statement at bottom of poem connects author to GCI Preble house.)
Description: Atricle about the Masonic Lodge in 1860s. Article contains notes from Captain Pray about traveling over the ice to get from one location to the other
Description: An article about Brooke Astor's summer home. Interior Design by Mark Hampton, & Nancy Pierrepont. Landscape Architecture by Morgan Wheelock. Photography by B. Brink.
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,
Description: Church was Methodist Episcopal. Also housed Baptist services. Mentions old road names, Coal Kiln Road, Old Beech Hill Rd. Battle of Norwood Cove mention Bit of history about Isaac Herrick as a Wheelwright Previously archived as 011.FIC.66.2
Description: Somesville Summer Party in 1855 based upon Charles Tracey's diary, a New York Lawyer. Invited town's people to a party. Frederick Church and family's arrival Somes Cove mackerel fishing picture, Pond's End Restaurant discussion and picture, picture of the Kate L. Pray schooner, Previously archived as 011.FIC.71.1