Description: Elmer "Mac" McGarr, age 72, owner and operator of Mt. View Cabins at Otter Creek, stands outside the office. People Mentioned: Elmer McGarr Color
Description: Vol. 5. No. 2, Summer 1949. Published quarterly by the State of Maine Publicity Bureau, 3 St. John St., Portland, Maine. (Printed in Maine on Maine-made paper) In this issue: - Maine Summer Events, 1949 - Rockland inherits a million; Farnsworth fortune builds museum, by James Brown III - I worked in a summer hotel; memories of a resort employee, by Calvin E. Eells - So you think you know Maine? Quiz questions with answers, by Stanley B. Attwood - Hamon Hall; remedial teaching at York Harbor, by Victor A. Schlich - The Maine Coast; sketches of familiar scenes, by Edwin O. Nielsen - Industrial Clinic; applied research at University of Maine, by Don Gross - Made in Maine; new industrial area in Aroostook, by William A. Hatch - Minstrelsy of Maine, edited by Sheldon Christian - Famous Maine Recipes, by June L. Maxfield - Harbor Town, by George S. Graffam (photograph) [show more]
Southwest Harbor School House with Bell tower on the left.
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Identifier:
swhpl-5533
Type:
Image, Photograph
Subject:
Businesses, Store Business
Places, Town
Date:
1896 c.
Place:
Southwest Harbor
Description: Clark Point Road goes off to the right in the foreground. The Left side of Main Street: J.C. Ralph's Studio is the first whole building visible on the left. One of the old street lights and the wall of the Southwest Harbor Public Library are visible on the far side of the Ralph building. The Right Side of Main Street: The "fountain" sitting in the road in just about at the corner of Clark Point Road, is a horse watering fountain. The white two-story building with the belfry was Southwest Harbor’s first high school before the building was turned ninety degrees and moved to become the Harmon Block at 337 Main Street. Gilley Plumbing, later the Gilley Plumbing Company, is visible beyond the school building. [show more]
Description: Buckboards and down-home cooking were the chief creature comforts for island visitors in the decade before the great hotels and cottages began to crowd the scene. Published in Down East Magazine, July 1995
Description: Photo taken from the porch of the Cranberry Cove Restaurant showing a planter tub in the front. First boat on the left is the Island Queen, the Island Queen was run 1963-1973 as the year round mail boat. This photo was taken during that time frame.
Description: "Beginning with the history of the houses of Somesville at the southern end of the settlement on the road to Southwest Harbor: there are several camps and cottages built in recent years around the shores of Echo Lake. Ernest Richardson has built two on the western side, Rolf Motz built a cottage close to the road on the eastern shore which he sold in 1935 to Mrs. O. C. Nutting. There are several others which have been owned by different people, and Ernest Richardson has a store and some overnight camps built in 1935-6 close to the road." – “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 257. For some time Ernest was in business with his friend Otto Clyde Nutting (1875-1972) [O.C. Nutting] with whom he went hunting and fishing. "There are several small houses on the right side of the road [on the eastern shore of Echo Lake], owned by people who have been employed by Nutting and Richardson in their lumbering operations. This firm operated a portable saw mill in this vicinity for a few years." - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 258. [show more]
Description: The gambrel roofed cottage just visible at the far right was the summer home of Paul Shields and his family. The cottage is at 41 Gunlow Road, Richtown, Maine - Map 3 - Lot 73 A.