Fred C. Lynam & Co, David R. Harding, Donald E. Hobbs, William H. Skiff, Madeline N. Fisher, Specially prepared by the National Survey Chester, Vermont
Description: Real Estate & Insurance Map No date possibly Pre-Fire of 47?
Description: Envelope 1: series of negatives # 0464 (also marked 76433) Envelope 2: series of negatives # 1306, 1307, 1308 Envelope 3: series of negatives # 2332, 2333 Envelope 4: series of negatives # 5308, 5309, 5310 Envelope 5: series of negatives # 6395, 6396
Description: Identities of the four most visible houses in the photograph. Left to Right: William G. “Bill Gill” Norwood (1833-1899) house at 719 Tremont Road, Map 5 – Lot 93, West Tremont. Note – the property is shown on the Salem Town map as Lot #21. William “Billy” H. Webster (1873-1943) house at 16 Horseshoe Road, Map 5 – Lot 91, West Tremont. Capt. Nathan Adam Reed (1823-) house at 23 Horseshoe Road, Map 6 – Lot 1, West Tremont. Henry Thomas Webster (1843-1914) house at 26 Webster Lane, Map 5 – Lot 94, West Tremont – burned in the 1940s. [show more]
Description: Explaining formation of towns & dates these occurred. It also gives a more detailed description of the Town of Mount Desert & services offered.
Description: "Just over the Manchester [Massachusetts] line in the western section of Gloucester is the major portion of the village of Magnolia at Magnolia Point, long one of the North Shore's most important hospitality tourism destinations… Originally a fishing and farming settlement, Magnolia had its beginnings as a summer resort center in the early 1870s with the construction of the first summer cottages there…" - “Summer By The Seaside: The Architecture of New England Coastal Resort Hotels, 1820-1950” by Bryant F. Tolles, Jr., p. 99, University Press of New England – 2008 [show more]
Description: This book was originally published in 1935 and was reprinted 2013 to bring to the newer generations the rich history of the Brooks community specifically, and that of Waldo County generally. This publication includes 50 chapters starting with the Muscongus Grant (Waldo Patent) and culminating with Tombstone Inscriptions, References, and an Appendix of Birth, Marriages and Deaths from 1930 to 1934.
Description: See “Hauling by Hand: The Life and Times of a Maine Island” by Dean Lawrence Lunt, 1999 See “Frenchboro, Long Island Plantation Maine” by Vivian Lunt, 1976 See “Frenchboro, Long Island Plantation: The First Hundred Years” by Vivian Lunt, 1980
Description: From the 1880s to the end of World War I, the fashionable resort of Bar Harbor attracted thousands of summer visitors with the money and leisure to pursue "the simple life on a grand scale," as A. Atwater Kent put it. They came to rusticate, dance, sail, picnic, flirt--and they did it all with style. Many relaxed at Bar Harbor's lavish hotels, while others built even more lavish and fanciful "cottages" for their own summer retreats. That dazzling era is just a memory now. The Depression and World War II undermined the summer colony, and the Great Fire of 1947 dealt the final blow. Those summer homes and hotels that survived the blaze generally succumbed to changing times, and only a handful stand today. Eighty-six vanished summer palaces are pictured in Lost Bar Harbor. Many never before published photographs from the Bar Harbor Historical Society are supplemented by lively text describing the estates and their colorful inhabitants. It is the most comprehensive collection of early Bar Harbor photographs ever assembled, providing an unparalleled glimpse of one of the world's great resort communities. [show more]