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George B Dorr at Hunter's Beach postcard
Bar Harbor Historical Society
  • Object, Writing, Postcard
  • none
  • 1880 - 1900
  • Acadia National Park
  • Copyright Undetermined
George B Dorr at Hunter's Beach postcard
Bar Harbor Historical Society
Description:
...Caption on card reads "Cleft at Hunter's Beach, Bar Harbor, ME"...
George B. Dorr to R.A. Thorndike Letter, July 24, 1939
Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Other
  • Recreation
  • Dorr, George B.
  • 1939-07-24
  • Acadia National Park
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
George B. Dorr to R.A. Thorndike Letter, July 24, 1939
Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association
Description:
...Acadia National Park superintendent George Dorr writes in response to a request from the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association for brush removal in...
Letter from Marconi to Charles Pineo
Bar Harbor Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • People
  • Marconi, Guglielmo
  • 1902-01-09
  • Acadia National Park
  • Copyright Undetermined
Letter from Marconi to Charles Pineo
Bar Harbor Historical Society
Description:
...Addressed to Charles Pineo, Bar Harbor Board of Trade From Guglielmo Marconi, Ottawa Content of letter is Marconi declining invitation to establish a...
Valley Cove on Somes Sound
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places
  • Acadia National Park
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Valley Cove on Somes Sound
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
...The postcard was printed by the Albertype Company for Bar Harbor stationer E.F. Teague to sell in his shop...
The Satterlee Tea House Site at Great Head
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places
  • Soules - George John Soules
  • 2015-10-08
  • Acadia National Park
  • In Copyright
The Satterlee Tea House Site at Great Head
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
...The Tea House was destroyed in the 1947 Bar Harbor Fire. Eleanor Morgan Satterlee gave the property to Acadia National Park in 1949...
Precipice Trail
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Hiking Trail
  • Acadia National Park
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Precipice Trail
Southwest Harbor Public Library
File Attachment:
Precipice Trail - T.pdf
…Funded by: Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association and Rudolph Brunnow Rudolph Ernest Brunnow (1858-1917) Chairman of the Path Committee 1912-1917 He …"He died in the spring of 1917, leaving behind some of the most challenging, controversial, and highly crafted trails in the Bar Harbor System " …Bar Harbor Times, November 21, 1914, p. 1.
Pathmakers: Cultural Landscape Report for the Historic Hiking Trail System of Mount Desert Island
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Book
  • Places, Hiking Trail
  • Brown - Margaret Coffin Brown
  • 2006
  • Acadia National Park
  • No Copyright - United States
Description:
This book describes the history, existing conditions, and analysis of the historic hiking trail system of Mount Desert Island. The book was prepared by Margaret Brown. The project manager was Jim Vekasi.


File Attachment:
ANP Pathmakers.pdf
…While Bates served as Bar Harbor Bar Harbor district."" …Path, described VIA (#304) Harbor VIA (#303) Park, described by Bar by Bar Harbor VIA (previously described) (#327) re-cut, described by Bar Harbor …by Bar Harbor Blue and White Path, described by Bar Harbor Yellow Path, described by Bar Harbor VIA VIA map Jordan Mountain Trail, shown on 1893 …Harbor Hemlock Trail, described by Bar Harbor VIA VIA Section of Stratheden Trail, described by Bar Harbor Bicycle Path, described by Bar Harbor VIA
Bar Harbor and the Porcupine Islands from the Pulpit Rock Trail, Acadia National Park
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Island
  • Places, Mountain
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1935-10
  • Acadia National Park
  • In Copyright
Description:
Pulpit Rock is on the summit, just to the left out of this photograph.
Mount Desert Island Visitor
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • Nature
  • Places, Island
  • The Bar Harbor Times
  • 1970
  • Acadia National Park
Mount Desert Island Visitor
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
...Newspaper supplement published by the Bar Harbor Times covering sightseeing and activities on and around Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park...
Eagle Lake
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Lake
  • Acadia National Park
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Eagle Lake
Southwest Harbor Public Library
File Attachment:
Eagle Lake.pdf
…water is in some places over ten fathoms deep, and so sweet and pure that it furnishes a very satisfactory water supply to the cottages and hotels of BarHarbor. …During the summer season, several times each day, four horse barges run from Bar Harbor to Eagle Lake, a distance of 2 miles, through the forest, and …It is a quaint little stern wheel craft, formerly used on the Merrimac at Newburyport, and hauled up from Bar Harbor to Eagle Lake by a hundred oxen and
Echo Lake
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Lake
  • Acadia National Park
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Echo Lake
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Echo Lake is located on the western side of Mount Desert Island. The lake is a popular swimming area and is surrounded by hiking trails on the nearby mountains.


File Attachment:
Echo Lake.pdf
…activities on Mount Desert Island that was considered an essential experience by early rusticators taking a buckboard ride between Somesville and Southwest Harbor …"The road to Somesville runs northward from [Southwest] harbor, and in about a mile form the Island House reaches the divergence of the Seal-Cove road. …the silvery waters of Somes Sound come into view, beyond the rugged rocks of Robinson Mountain; and the hotel on Green Mountain shows the direction of BarHarbor.
Eagle Lake and Cadillac Mountain
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Lake
  • Places, Mountain
  • Acadia National Park
  • Copyright Undetermined
Eagle Lake and Cadillac Mountain
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Acadia National Park - Bar Harbor and Porcupines from Cadillac Mountain
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Mountain
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1951-08-05
  • Acadia National Park
  • In Copyright
Bar Harbor and the Porcupine Islands from the Pulpit Rock Trail, Acadia National Park
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Digital Photograph
  • Places, Mountain
  • Lenahan - Donald Patrick Lenahan
  • 2012-09-14
  • Acadia National Park
  • In Copyright
Description:
This photo was taken from almost the same spot as a photo by W.H Ballard in October 1935. See Item 11895 for the Ballard photo. The cruise ship in the distance is the "MS Maasdam," a Holland America cruise ship built in 1993 by Italy’s Fincantieri Shipyards. She was named for a dam located on the Maas River in the Netherlands. “Maasdam” is an S class 10 deck cruise ship, 721.78’ long, 101.50 beam, 131.23’ high with a 24.93’ draught. She carries a crew of 580 and 1,258 passengers at a speed of 22 knots. [show more]
Bar Harbor and the Porcupine Islands from the Pulpit Rock Trail, Acadia National Park
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Digital Photograph
  • Places, Mountain
  • Soules - George John Soules
  • 2016-05-18
  • Acadia National Park
  • In Copyright
Description:
I was inspired to take this photograph by Ballard's image (item 11895) of this same scene. -- George Soules
Bar Harbor and the Porcupine Islands from the Pulpit Rock Trail, Acadia National Park
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Negative
  • Places, Mountain
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1935-10
  • Acadia National Park
  • In Copyright
Description:
At the summit of Cadillac mountain.
Balance Rock on South Bubble
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Mountain
  • Townsend - Charles A. Townsend (1871-1932)
  • Acadia National Park
  • No Copyright - United States
Balance Rock on South Bubble
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
...The name was probably changed because of the confusion between it and the famous Balance Rock on the shore at Bar Harbor...
Summit of Cadillac Mountain, Acadia National Park
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Mountain
  • 1955 c.
  • Acadia National Park
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
The Summit, Cadillac Mountain
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Landscape
  • Places, Mountain
  • Acadia National Park
  • Copyright Undetermined
The Summit, Cadillac Mountain
Southwest Harbor Public Library
The Memorials of Acadia
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Park
  • Lenahan - Donald Patrick Lenahan
  • Acadia National Park
  • In Copyright
The Memorials of Acadia
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
...From 2012 to 2017, Don Lenahan of Bar Harbor, Maine wrote blog posts about the people, geography, and history of Acadia National Park...
GXS Collection - Acadia National Park
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Advertising, Advertisement
  • Places, Park
  • Acadia National Park
Description:
...Folder 9 Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park Maine: A scenic wonderland of ocean, lakes and mountains, 1930?, 14, [1] pages: illustrations, maps...Folder 52 Brochure "Visit Bar Harbor - Acadia National Park", 1952...
Otter Creek Cliffs
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Park
  • Acadia National Park
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Otter Creek Cliffs
Southwest Harbor Public Library
File Attachment:
Otter Creek Cliffs.pdf
…Benjamin Franklin De Costa (1831-1904) "Otter Cliffs The drive from Bar Harbor to the Otter Cliffs is five miles, and the road, nearly parallel with
Written in the Rocks
Jesup Memorial Library
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Places, Park
  • Acadia National Park
Written in the Rocks
Jesup Memorial Library
File Attachment:
Written in the Rocks-uncompressed.pdf
…Known as the Bar Harbor formation, these deposits roofed over the Ellsworth formation. …Geologists sometimes refer to the Ellsworth, Bar Harbor, and Cranberry Island formations as "weak" rock. …In still other places, the dispossessed stones and cobbles become gravel bars and shoals. …Bar Harbor was named for just such a bar, which connects it to Bar Island. Because the coast is young, sandy shores are rare.
Acadia's Memorial Paths
Jesup Memorial Library
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Places, Park
  • Acadia National Park
Acadia's Memorial Paths
Jesup Memorial Library
File Attachment:
Acadias Memorial Paths-uncompressed.pdf
…Gladys O'Neil, a native of Bar Harbor, is curator at Kurt Dietrich s Climb which ascends the eastern the Bar Harbor Historical Society Museum. slope …He built The Turrets on Eden Street in Bar Harbor, now owned by College of the Atlantic. …T1 HE BATES MEMORIAL, the most impressive of all of these, was erected in 1911 by the summer residents of Bar Harbor, Northeast and Southwest Harbors …to honor the former Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association president and chairman of their Paths Committee.
Scuba Diving Information
Jesup Memorial Library
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Places, Park
  • Acadia National Park
Scuba Diving Information
Jesup Memorial Library
File Attachment:
Scuba Diving Information-uncompressed.pdf
…The Mount Desert Island Hospital is located in Bar Harbor, and the 'phone number is 288-5081. …You can obtain air at Hayne's Garage in Northeast Harbor. Their phone number is 276-3773. Also try Harbor Divers in Bass Harbor. …Desert Island include the following: Bar Island 2 Hours either side of low tide, this Island is accessible via a gravel bar that connects the Island to …Bar Harbor.