Description: Stereograph sometimes listed as "Waterfall at Schooner Head" and other times as "Mill Race at Schooner Head", Probably at the William Lynam Homestead, Eden, Maine.
Description: An account of the third “Coit Family” steamer excursion from Worcester, Massachusetts, this third trip does not seem to have involved the family though known by their name as they had started the excursions in earlier years. Descriptions of stops made by the steamer were written by various authors.
File Attachment: Coit_Excursion_1870.pdf …His description of his visit to BarHarbor is clear and his style delightful. American House, Belfast, Me., August 4, 1870. …South West Harbor is in Tremont. BarHarbor, our stopping place, and the favorite resort, is in Eden. …BarHarbor takes its name from a sand-bar at its head, across which the high tide swells, but along which at low water one may walk or drive to Bar Island …The cosy harbor is protected by forbidding names.
File Attachment: DODGE_-_SAWYERS_-_MT._DESERT_ISLAND_-_1871_B.pdf …Salsbury; BarHarbor, l\[i-;s Reynold;;. The Steamer Lewiston, Ca11t. …Reynold.-; , BarHarbor, East Eden. Teachers. Gideon 1\fa, o, Edgar W. iiiggins. …Desert) for BarHarbor and South West Harbor. Freight Taken at Reasonable Rates. …SAUVEUR, , I BARHARBOR, - - - - - - EAST EDEN. 1t1aine.
File Attachment: Drake - Nooks and Corners of the NE Coast.pdf …At Somesville there is a comfortable hostel , but the larger summer hotels are at BarHarbor and at South- west Harbor. …Soon after passing the bridge, that to BarHarbor diverged to the left. …The roads from BarHarbor and from North -east Harbor unite within a short distance of Somesville, and enter the village together. …Some handsome cottages have already sprung out of the prevailing ugli ness at BarHarbor.
Description: ...Round trip tickets can be had of the company's agent, on Main Street, BarHarbor. F.H...." - Part of an advertisement appearing in BarHarbor and Mount Desert Island by William Berry Lapham - 1887...
Description: ...BarHarbor from Summit of Green Mountain 2. Great Head and Newport Sands 3. Schooner Head 4. Green Mountain Railway, 500 Feet Grade 5...The Boulder, BarHarbor 8. Steamer Mount Desert 9. Green Mountain Railway Station at Base of Green Mountain 10...BarHarbor...