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| Bangor Daily News, Bangor's Sesquicentennial Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Bangor Daily News, Bangor's Sesquicentennial Northeast Harbor Library Description: This newspaper copy covers 150 years since the city's incorporation in 1834. Bangor began in 1769 when the first white settler, Jacob Buswell made his home there. It is divided in 8 sections: A: 1834-1841 Out of the woods (Item 7413) B: 1842-1872 Boom town (Item 7414) C: 1873-1895 Turning the tide (Item 7415) D: 1896-1911 A new century (Item 7416) E: 1912-1931 Out of the ashes (Item 7417) F: 1932-1945 The lean years (Item 7418) G:1946-1968 Prosperous peace (Item 7419) H: 1969-1984 Building on past (Item 7420) [show more] | |
| Ricker Classical Institute Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Ricker Classical Institute Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Originally founded as Houlton Academy in 1848, the school was renamed the Ricker Classical Institute in 1887. It was a secondary school until 1934 when it added a 6th year and became Ricker Junior College. In 1949, it became a 4-year liberal arts college until it closed in 1978 | ||
| East Maine Conference Seminary Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  East Maine Conference Seminary Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The East Maine Conference Seminary was established in 1851 by the East Maine Conference of the United Methodist Church as a preparatory school for boys and girls. The school was located on Oak Hill, north of Franklin Street, Bucksport, Maine. | ||
| Hard Wood Factory, Ellsworth, Maine Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Hard Wood Factory, Ellsworth, Maine Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Eastern Maine Insane Hospital Bangor Mental Health Institute Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Eastern Maine Insane Hospital Bangor Mental Health Institute Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Bunker & Savage Architects Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Bunker & Savage Architects Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Bunker & Savage Architects was founded by William Gleason Bunker and Arthur Reed Savage in 1918 or 1919. | ||
| Eastern Steamship Company and Wharf at Belfast Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Eastern Steamship Company and Wharf at Belfast Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Union Station, Bangor, Maine Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Union Station, Bangor, Maine Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Trenton Bridge Lobster Pound Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Trenton Bridge Lobster Pound Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Pickering Square Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Pickering Square Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Pickering Square is bordered by Water Street and Merchants Plaza in downtown Bangor between Main Street and the Kenduskeag Stream. Now succumbed to urban renewal, historically it was the site of an open air market. | ||
| The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The Hugh C. Leighton Company was a major publisher of view-cards, particularly New England views. They printed in four distinct styles most often employing tinted halftones. "Picture postcards helped spread information about [Maine's] beauty and points of interest, and it was a Portland man who first brought such postcards to the United States." | ||
| A.J. Huston, Rockland, Me. Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  A.J. Huston, Rockland, Me. Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| The Farrington Studio Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Farrington Studio Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Charles A. Townsend House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Charles A. Townsend House Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| W. P. Dickey & Co., Bangor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  W. P. Dickey & Co., Bangor Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| First Congregational Church Bangor, ME Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  First Congregational Church Bangor, ME Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| The American House Hotel - Ellsworth Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The American House Hotel - Ellsworth Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Eastern State Normal School Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Eastern State Normal School Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Bath Iron Works Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Bath Iron Works Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Charles Goddard Weld Cottage Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Charles Goddard Weld Cottage Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Austin's Castle Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Austin's Castle Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Built by Theodore P. Austin, a New York jeweler, who invested in Hancock Country mining. He died before the construction was complete. The 42 room castle was never completed, although Austin's two daughters lived in the one finished room for many years. | ||
| Maine Central Institute Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Maine Central Institute Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: "ROCKLAND BREAKWATER LIGHTOUSE TO BE RAZED - The U.S. Coast Guard has announced it will demolish the unmanned lighthouse which has stood on the breakwater at the entrance to Rockland Harbor since the beginning of the century, but will retain a light tower there as an aid to navigation. The above photo was taken in 1904 when Captain Clifford Robbins of Southwest Harbor was the keeper. The lighthouse and keeper's dwelling were erected after the breakwater was completed in 1899. The 4300-foot breakwater, which protects Rockland Harbor from easterly storms, was eighteen years under construction and required 732,227 tons of stone for a barrier 65 feet high, 175 feet wide at the base and 45 feet at the top." Newspaper article – unknown source – circa 1963. The lighthouse was not demolished. Clifford M. Robbins, appointed keeper of the lighthouse on November 1, 1902, was born to Howard P. and Eliza Susan Tarr Robbins on February 23, 1880 in Tremont, Maine. Clifford married Pansy B. Lovering on December 26, 1899 in Tremont, Maine. Pansy was born in 1881 in Concord, New Hampshire. Clifford M. Robbins and his wife, Pansy B. Lovering Robbins both died in Bar Harbor, Maine in 1967. Clifford's father, Howard P. Robbins was also a lighthouse keeper there. “Howard P. Robbins, his son Cliff, Cliff’s wife Pansy, and their daughter Evelyn lived at the light on the breakwater. There was a stationery engine with a double 8 foot flywheel used to operate the compressor for the fog horn. Cliff taught Pansy to operate the engine so he could go scalloping in the winter. A Coast Guard inspector had to come out to inspect and be sure she was strong enough to operate it. One time her dress caught in the flywheel. She went head over heels. It didn’t hurt her any – she was young then and she was rugged and tough.” – Ralph Stanley – September 26, 2007 Rockland Breakwater is registered as a National Historic Place - 81000067 [show more] | ||
| Seth Sprague Thornton House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Seth Sprague Thornton House Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Nell Rebecca (Carroll) Thornton, who grew up at The Mountain House, in Southwest Harbor, without running water and the other modern comforts of the early 1900s was immensely proud of hers and Seth’s house in Houlton. She took many photographs of her family and friends on its porches and front steps and a few inside. Her family took pictures at the house too. | ||
| Pemaquid Light Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Pemaquid Light Southwest Harbor Public Library |