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Warren Bartlett Walsh Cottage Leza and James R. Colquhoun House Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage	Southwest Harbor	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Warren Bartlett Walsh Cottage Leza and James R. Colquhoun House Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-16026 Type: Reference Subject: Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage Place: Southwest Harbor
Elmwood Cafe Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Businesses, Restaurant Business	Southwest Harbor	Copyright Not Evaluated	Elmwood Cafe Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-15530 Type: Reference Subject: Businesses, Restaurant Business Place: Southwest Harbor
Addison Packing Company Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Businesses, Cannery Business	Southwest Harbor	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Addison Packing Company Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-13087 Type: Reference Subject: Businesses, Cannery Business Place: Southwest Harbor
Samuel Champion Cooper Cottage The Larches Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage	Southwest Harbor	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Samuel Champion Cooper Cottage The Larches Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-13001 Type: Reference Subject: Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage Place: Southwest Harbor
George Ripley Fuller House Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Structures, Dwellings, House	Southwest Harbor	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	George Ripley Fuller House Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-13385 Type: Reference Subject: Structures, Dwellings, House Place: Southwest Harbor
Moore's Garage Southwest Harbor Motor Company Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Businesses, Automotive Repair Business Structures, Commercial, Commercial Structures	Southwest Harbor	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Moore's Garage Southwest Harbor Motor Company Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-13258 Type: Reference Subject: Businesses, Automotive Repair Business Structures, Commercial, Commercial Structures Place: Southwest Harbor Description: In 1940 Southwest Harbor Motor Co. was the only AAA filling station in Southwest Harbor. Their phone number was 51-2. The brick building was converted to offices to rent in 1986-1987. The U.S. Post Office opened in the building on June 2, 1987. Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) attended school in the elementary school on the present ellipse (behind the Gilley Plumbing building on the left of this photograph) before it was moved across the street to become a fire station and now [2011] the police station/town office. When the bank was housed at the Southwest Harbor Motor Co. Ralph would take his penny bank there to be unlocked and have the money deposited in his bank account. The lady in the bank would show him the big safe where is money would be kept. – Ralph Warren Stanley 01/17/11 Marion E. Newman (1890-1976), Mrs. Frederick Walter Wescott at the time, owned a yellow Stutz Bearcat that was destroyed in the fire. Marion was known for having invested in Coca Cola stock and holding on to it when others thought it worthless and sold their stock. – Ralph Warren Stanley, 03/31/14 [show more]
William Gilman Parker House Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Structures, Dwellings, House	Southwest Harbor	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	William Gilman Parker House Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-12978 Type: Reference Subject: Structures, Dwellings, House Place: Southwest Harbor Description: William Gilman Parker (1832-1890) built his house in 1869.
Freeman Cottage Freeman Annex Ashmont Hotel Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Inn Structures, Dwellings, House	Southwest Harbor	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Freeman Cottage Freeman Annex Ashmont Hotel Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-13498 Type: Reference Subject: Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Inn Structures, Dwellings, House Place: Southwest Harbor
Southwest Harbor Fire Department Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Organizations, Civic Structures, Civic, Public, Public Safety, Fire Station	Southwest Harbor	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Southwest Harbor Fire Department Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-13383 Type: Reference Subject: Organizations, Civic Structures, Civic, Public, Public Safety, Fire Station Place: Southwest Harbor
George A. Neal House James Lawton House Danforth Marcyes House Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Structures, Dwellings, House	Southwest Harbor	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	George A. Neal House James Lawton House Danforth Marcyes House Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-3672 Type: Reference Subject: Structures, Dwellings, House Place: Southwest Harbor Description: This was originally the site of the James Lawton house built by Danforth Marcyes. In 2017 this was the site of the Bar Harbor Bank and Trust Building.
A.I. Holmes Stores The A&P - The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Structures, Commercial, Store	Southwest Harbor	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	A.I. Holmes Stores The A&P - The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-13140 Type: Reference Subject: Structures, Commercial, Store Place: Southwest Harbor
Ross House and Store as Cedarcroft James Francis Ross House Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Structures, Dwellings, House	Southwest Harbor	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Ross House and Store as Cedarcroft James Francis Ross House Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-12916 Type: Reference Subject: Structures, Dwellings, House Place: Southwest Harbor
Anson Irving Holmes House Kingsleigh Inn Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Structures, Dwellings, House	Southwest Harbor	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Anson Irving Holmes House Kingsleigh Inn Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-12956 Type: Reference Subject: Structures, Dwellings, House Place: Southwest Harbor
Adelbert Alden Gilley House Congregational Church Parsonage Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Structures, Dwellings, House	Southwest Harbor	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Adelbert Alden Gilley House Congregational Church Parsonage Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-13467 Type: Reference Subject: Structures, Dwellings, House Place: Southwest Harbor
Jackson Market T.W. Jackson & Son Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Businesses, Store Business	Southwest Harbor	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Jackson Market T.W. Jackson & Son Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-12952 Type: Reference Subject: Businesses, Store Business Place: Southwest Harbor Description: The store, on Clark Point Road, was T.W. Jackson & Son, an IGA store. “R.B. Jackson [Richard Benson Jackson (1893-1959)] is having a building erected on his lot lately purchased from P.L. Sargent. A filling station and other conveniences will be established there, and the extensive grounds opened as a parking place. This will be a great convenience to the customers of the Jackson market.” – The Ellsworth American, Wednesday, April 15, 1936. "In the 1930s and 40s, Jackson's Market of Southwest Harbor sent a boat and operated a weekly market on the old steamboat wharf [on Little Cranberry Island] during the summer. In addition to meat and vegetables, a youthful stamp collector could find a small envelope of stamps inside each package of Brookfield butter." - “A History of Little Cranberry Island, Maine” by Hugh L. Dwelley, published by Isleford Historical Society, 1990, p. 114. In 2017, Christina's Gallery & Past Treasures, was located in the building once occupied by the Jackson Market. [show more]
Sim Mayo's Garage Southwest Harbor Motor Company Garage Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Businesses, Automotive Repair Business	Southwest Harbor	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Sim Mayo's Garage Southwest Harbor Motor Company Garage Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-13138 Type: Reference Subject: Businesses, Automotive Repair Business Place: Southwest Harbor
Main Street, Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Places, Town	Southwest Harbor	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Main Street, Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-14689 Type: Reference Subject: Places, Town Place: Southwest Harbor Description: “In 1897, the different societies in the village combined to raise funds for street lights. The lamps were bought and placed near those houses whose owners were willing to furnish the kerosene and keep the lamps trimmed and lighted. These lamps did duty until the installation of electricity in the summer of 1917.” - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 124. [show more]
Indian Lot Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Places, Camp	Southwest Harbor	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Indian Lot Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-13751 Type: Reference Subject: Places, Camp Place: Southwest Harbor Description: Now the site of "Indian Lot Cottage" built in 1927 by the Norwoods for George Ashbridge Rhoads and still owned, in 2007, by Rhoads descendents, the Obbard family. "I think it was the same year (1847) that fifteen or twenty Indians from Oldtown camped on the salt water shore opposite Parkers. The chief said they had been rehearsing their old customs and would like the right to give an exhibition if a hall could be found that was large enough. The woolen factory was not in use at that time so it was opened for the purpose…The Indians dressed in their war paint and feathers and gave their dances with flourishing tomahawks and blood-curdling yells. One of the tribe could play the violin with considerable skill…" - Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 255 - 1938. "For many years Indians from Oldtown came every summer and encamped on the rocky lot across from the Parker property. They pitched their tents and remained for the summer, selling their baskets. The men roamed the woods gathering sweet grass and occasionally cutting an ash tree, which right they were vouchsafed by the owners of the land as it was an unwritten law that the Indians could have an occasional tree to use in their work from the land that, not so long before, had belonged entirely to them. They were quiet, law-abiding neighbors and the encampment was one of the picturesque sights of the town. When in 1925 George A. Rhoads of Wilmington, Delaware, built his house on the camp site, he called it Indian Lot.” - Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 167. "Indians from Oldtown, Maine camped on the rocks across [Clark Point Road] from our house [the Parker house at 143 Clark Point Road] each summer. They lived in tents and sold baskets, moccasins and small birch bark canoes. Some of the baskets were made of wood and some almost entirely of sweetgrass which had a very pleasant odor. This grass was secured from the marshes at Bass Harbor and would be cured by being hung up in large bunches. They also cut some ash wood for use in making the wooden baskets. As the same Indians returned year after year we became well acquainted with them. In later years the older Indian boys played baseball with us." - “Recollections of Southwest Harbor, Maine 1885-1894” by Jesse L. Parker, p. 40, manuscript, 1955. This valuable manuscript is a narrative of the early history of the town by an eyewitness. There are largely unknown or unreported facts on almost every page. See “Indians in Eden: Wabanakis and Rusticators on Maine’s Mount Desert Island, 1840s-1920’s” by Bunny McBride and Harlod E. L. Prins. [show more]
Deacon's Cove, Southwest Harbor Clark's Cove, Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Places, Harbor	Southwest Harbor	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Deacon's Cove, Southwest Harbor Clark's Cove, Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-13477 Type: Reference Subject: Places, Harbor Place: Southwest Harbor Description: The cove was named for Deacon Henry Higgins Clark.
Island House Hotel Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage	Southwest Harbor	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Island House Hotel Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-13296 Type: Reference Subject: Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage Place: Southwest Harbor Description: "The Island House, owned by Deacon Henry H. Clark, was the first summer hotel on Mount Desert Island. Deacon Clark began the hotel business by taking into his hospitable home the first occasional tourists who came to the island for a short stay. He gradually enlarged his house until in 1885 it was entirely remodeled and did a thriving business, employing many of the townspeople during the summer season." - Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 174 - 1938. [show more]
Samuel Watson Herrick House Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Structures, Dwellings, House	Southwest Harbor	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Samuel Watson Herrick House Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-13353 Type: Reference Subject: Structures, Dwellings, House Place: Southwest Harbor
William I. Mayo and Annie E. Mayo House Eugene S. Thurston House Central House Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Structures, Dwellings, House	Southwest Harbor	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	William I. Mayo and Annie E. Mayo House Eugene S. Thurston House Central House Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-12861 Type: Reference Subject: Structures, Dwellings, House Place: Southwest Harbor Description: William was an enterprising man. He built the Central House, sometime in the 1880s – before 1894, and lived there on land across the street and a few lots toward town from his father’s land. The house known as "The Central House" was sold to William's sister, Sarah Frances Mayo and her husband Willard Wycliff Rich in 1905 and occupied by them as early as 1903.
Simeon Holden Mayo's Blacksmith and Bicycle Shop William Lloyd Carroll's Cash Market Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Businesses, Blacksmith Business Businesses, Store Business	Southwest Harbor	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Simeon Holden Mayo's Blacksmith and Bicycle Shop William Lloyd Carroll's Cash Market Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-13530 Type: Reference Subject: Businesses, Blacksmith Business Businesses, Store Business Place: Southwest Harbor
Higgins Blacksmith Shop Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Businesses, Blacksmith Business	Southwest Harbor	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Higgins Blacksmith Shop Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-13447 Type: Reference Subject: Businesses, Blacksmith Business Place: Southwest Harbor
Southwest Harbor Post Office at 30 Clark Point Road Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Organizations, Civic Structures, Civic, Public, Post Office	Southwest Harbor	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Southwest Harbor Post Office at 30 Clark Point Road Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-13566 Type: Reference Subject: Organizations, Civic Structures, Civic, Public, Post Office Place: Southwest Harbor Description: "At Southwest Harbor after J. T. R. Freeman, Mrs. Emily Robinson Farnsworth had the [post] office for some time; then J. A. Freeman and William J. Tower held it alternately according to change of political administration for several terms. Then E. S. Thurston was appointed and held office for twelve years until Earll W. Gott was appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt. The office has changed location with every new postmaster…" - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 105. "William J. Tower built the building east of the Jackson lot and he kept the post-office there for a number of years. He sold to E. S. Thurston when Mr. Thurston took over the duties of postmaster and after his services of twelve years were past, the property was sold in 1936 to Mrs. Fred A. Birlem whose son, Wallace Birlem, built the double garage behind it with living rooms above which he occupies [1938]." - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 157. [show more]

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