Description: Box 1 Record book A, 1897-1909 Record book B, Oct. 1902-Oct. 1903 Record book C, 1927-1929 Record book D, 1925-1927 Record book E, 1931-1935 Record book F, 1929-1931 Record book G, 1932 Record book H, 1951 Includes database of clients and works (see uploaded pdf file): Information from Benjamin Graves'work done in the village and on Mount Desert Island from around 1897 through 1951. Much of this time was before reinforced concrete was widely adopted, so while the ledger detail includes other materials, "stone" is a common denominator. Labor rates and other local masons names are shown, as well as early rusticators. Bishop Doane, the Episcopal Church, Pres. Eliot and others' work is laid out. [show more]
File Attachment: Graves Ledger Index.pdf …F. 2 1897 Northeast Harbor Water Co. 2 1897 Lamson, Horace 2 1897 Phillips, Dr. Dana 2 1897 Phillips, Dr. …Harbor Bakery 182 1902-1903 Whitmore, John 183 1903 Patten, George G. 184 1902-1903 Gross, F. …Theodore 281 1903 Labor billed (misc clients) 282 1903 BarHarbor Electric Light Co. 285 1903 Finster, O.B. 286 1903 Episcopal Church 286 1903 Sand invoices …Edwin 193 1928 Madeira 194 1928 BarHarbor Nursery 196 1928 LEDGER # C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C Benjamin
Description: The "Burning Tree Restaurant" owned by Elmer Beal and his wife Alison Martin in Otter Creek flaunts elegant seafood and vegetarian meals. Published in Down East Magazine, October 1996.
Description: Feature article is death of Rev. Leffingwell. Paper includes international and national articles, e.g. the Boer War; also includes many advertisements of local businesses.
Description: ...Full page article published in the BarHarbor Times, entitled " Sunday in the Parish", featuring clergy and parishioners to celebrate the 75th anniversary...
Description: ...Invitation to Mr and Mrs Manson Manchester to the marriage of Marion Fletcher MacDonald to Loren Eugene Kimball on September 10, in or after 1916 in Bar...Harbor Maine...
Description: Tercentenary of the Landing of the Popham Colony at the mouth of the Kennebec river. August 29, 1907. (Scanned copy in part from archive.org)
File Attachment: SCB 974.1 POP.pdf …And of St, George's " I would boldly affirme it to be the most rich, River he says, beautiful, large, and secure harboring River that the world affordeth …and welcoming spaces and sunny skies invite The wandering world at last into ways of gladness and right And lo the portal is freedom, which knows not bar …George's harbor, the Pento the American coast. tecost harbor of Waymouth's anchorage in 1605, was doubtless the place of rendezvous agreed upon by Challons …From the fact that the Popham colonists, on their arrival on the coast in 1607, proceeded at once, after the two vessels came together in Pentecost harbor
Description: Copy of a hand-printed report (of a BH summer resident?) of summer cottages selected for their Architectural qualities which were destroyed in the Fire of 1947. Greenway Court, Archbold, Thirlstane, Mizzentop and Stanwood.
Description: ...1: BarHarbor Burning. Reprint of a letter from U...Maine, Orono, student to his father in NJ about the l947 BarHarbor fire which he and fraternity brothers helped fight. 2: The Big Fire by Parson Williams...Williams 3: BarHarbor 40 Years Later...