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| Moore's Garage Co. and Bar Harbor Banking & Trust Co. Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Moore's Garage Co. and Bar Harbor Banking & Trust Co. Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...The photograph shows Gilley Plumbing Co. to the left of Moore's Garage, and an early location of the Bar Harbor Banking & Trust Company in the right portion... | |
| Southwest Harbor, Me. Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Southwest Harbor, Me. Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Dora Ward Bar Harbor, Me. Bar Harbor Hospital... |
| Bar Harbor Times article, July 3, 1980. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Bar Harbor Times article, July 3, 1980. Wendell Gilley Museum Description: ...., Southwest Harbor) prior to the museum's construction... | |
| Bar Harbor Bank & Trust Company and United States Post Office in the John Lawler Commercial Building Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Bar Harbor Bank & Trust Company and United States Post Office in the John Lawler Commercial Building Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...On the left side is the Bar Harbor Banking & Trust Company - Southwest Harbor Branch...On the right side (to the right of the Post Office box is The United States Post Office at Southwest Harbor..."The Salisbury building which now houses the local branch of the Bar Harbor Banking and Trust Company, the post office and a plumbing shop, was built by...Salisbury in 1933-4." - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S... |
| 1922 Southwest Harbor Fire Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  1922 Southwest Harbor Fire Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Main Street in Southwest Harbor was devastated by fire on March 27, 1922...Newspaper accounts of the fire reported estimated losses of $150,000 and that the Southwest Harbor Volunteer Fire Company, “did remarkable work, considering...Bar Harbor and Northeast Harbor firemen also responded, but the roads were considerably different from today and it took the Bar Harbor department, “four...“Had the roads been in anything like fair condition it is the unanimous opinion that the truck from Bar Harbor would have been able to save the Odd Fellows... | ||
| Main Street, Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Main Street, Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...View of Sawyer's Market, Post Office, and Bar Harbor Bank taken from Whitneys in August 1973... | |
| Southwest Harbor man gave up family business to become "Whittling" artist Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Southwest Harbor man gave up family business to become "Whittling" artist Northeast Harbor Library Description: ...Article published in the Bar Harbor Times (date unknown) about Wendell Gilley and his bird carvings... | |
| Southwest Harbor Revisited: Times Writer Reports on 1922 Fire Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Southwest Harbor Revisited: Times Writer Reports on 1922 Fire Northeast Harbor Library Description: ...Bar Harbor Times article about the 1922 fire that burned the business district. (January 7, 1965)... | |
| Scott Allen Worcester Winning the Southwest Harbor Public Library Auction Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Scott Allen Worcester Winning the Southwest Harbor Public Library Auction Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ..."Landing The Prize… Scott Worcester of Southwest Harbor receives congratulations from Sallie Hinckley of the Southwest Harbor [Public] Library after winning...National Bank of Bar Harbor...The second prize, a free, round-trip on Bar Harbor Airlines was won by Vaughn Marshall of Machias...The raffle raised $9,400 to be divided between the Harbor House and the library." – The Bar Harbor Times, Thursday, September 8, 1983, Sec. 1, p. 13... |
| Beal's Bowling Spa Opened Last Week in Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Beal's Bowling Spa Opened Last Week in Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Full page advertisement on page 6 in the March 18, 1948 Bar Harbor Times. The two photographs in the ad were taken by Willis Ballard... | |
| Steamboat Wharf at Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Steamboat Wharf at Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...“Summer tourists who enter Mount Desert by the way of South-west Harbor are liable to receive very unfavorable impressions of this beautiful island...By crossing the harbor to the Ocean House, the view of the mountains may indeed be regained, yet the prospect from the east side is tame.” - Rambles in... File Attachment: Steamboat Wharf at Southwest Harbor.pdf …Business History Steamboat Wharf at Southwest Harbor Address: 184 Clark Point Road City: Southwest Harbor State: Maine Map and Lot: Map 4 Lot 35-1 …the night at Deacon Clark's and taking an all-day ride by team to Bar Harbor where a resident of that town gave them hospitable treatment for a few days …Desert in the early 1850s next to Steamboat Wharf in Southwest Harbor and then moved to what is now Bass Harbor in 1889. …when the summer tourists began to come to Mount Desert in great numbers and every boat in early summer brought crowds of passengers for Southwest and Bar | ||
| Select Southwest Harbor Annual Reports Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Select Southwest Harbor Annual Reports Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Annual reports for the years 1964 and 1972 as well as a Warrant report for 1965, all for the town of Southwest Harbor... File Attachment: accession-index-2058.pdf …Accession Index Southwest Harbor Public Library Digital Archive Accession #: 2058 Title: Southwest Harbor Annual Reports Archivist: Sadie Cooley Date …31, 1972 with reports of the superintendent of schools auditors and the warrant, published by the Bar Harbor Times Publishing Company. 2058-002 2058- …of schools and road commissioner, published by the Bar Harbor Times Publishing Company. …Warrant report for Southwest Harbor, Maine March 1, 1965, published by the Bar Harbor Times Publishing Company. | ||
| Southwest Harbor High School Freeman Grammar School Harbor House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  File Attachment: SWH High School - Freeman Grammar School.pdf …School History Freeman Grammar School Southwest Harbor High School Harbor House Address: 329 Main Street City: Southwest Harbor State: Maine Map and Lot …Stanley" "In 1906 the Southwest Harbor schoolhouse was sold to George Harmon of Bar Harbor who bought the adjoining lot to the south, moved the building …When the high school at Southwest Harbor, later the Harbor House building, was first constructed it was smaller than it appears today. …Harbor school building. | ||
| Site of the George Arthur Neal House - Bar Harbor Bank and Trust Company Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Site of the George Arthur Neal House - Bar Harbor Bank and Trust Company Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| George A. Neal House James Lawton House Danforth Marcyes House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Description: ...In 2017 this was the site of the Bar Harbor Bank and Trust Building... File Attachment: Danforth Marcyes House.pdf …George Arthur Neal House Address: 314 Main Street City: Southwest Harbor State: Maine Map: Map 6 Lot 45 First Owner: Marcyes - Danforth Pond Marcyes …He was in charge of the Custom House here for a long time, moving to Bar Harbor when his duties there were over. His son-in-law, James J. …Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 147 - 1938. | ||
| Steamship Cimbria in Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Steamship Cimbria in Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Harbor, Mt. Desert, Me."... |
| The Southwest Harbor Public Library Children's Reading Club Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Southwest Harbor Public Library Children's Reading Club Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...On the steps of the Library in Southwest Harbor. The photograph is by W.H...Ballard and was originally published in The Bar Harbor Times Oct. 1, 1942...The caption under it read as follows: "LAST STORY HOUR AT SOUTHWEST " - Seventy children who have been attending the weekly story hour at the Southwest Harbor... |
| Howe D. Higgins House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Howe D. Higgins House Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Higgin's father, Fenelon Higgins of Bar Harbor is foreman of the work." Vol...I - History of Southwest Harbor – Oct. 16, 1921 to Jan. 9, 1924, #354, Pg. 94, August 8, 1923... File Attachment: Howe D. Higgins House.pdf …House History Howe Dwain Higgins House ME SWH Clark Point Road - 086 Address: 86 Clark Point Road City: Southwest Harbor State: Maine Map and …- Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 175. | ||
| Newspaper Clippings featuring the Claremont Hotel Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Newspaper Clippings featuring the Claremont Hotel Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...inn overlooking the sea, tradition has a capital T" from The Globe and Mail - September 21, 1994 "Claremont spruces up for another century" from The Bar...Harbor Times - August 18, 1994 "Visitor's guide to a lush Maine isle" from The New York Sunday Times -August 9, 1989 A write up by Charles C... File Attachments: 2068-001.pdf …CLAREMONT HOTEL IN MAINE At inn overlooking the sea 9 tradition has a capital T I Southwest Harbor, Me. …- T was searingly hot when I ar rived at the Claremont Hotel, a venerable hostelry overlooking Southwest Harbor, Me. …Another afternoon, we drove around Acadia National Park, then on to Bar Harbor to stroll around its boutiques and galleries, which are housed in old, renovated …Box 137-South west Harbor, Maine, 04679; tele phone (207) 244-5036. MATURE TRAVELLER - - - - - / - i 2068-002.pdf …The Bar Harbor Times August 18, 1994 Page A15 Claremont spruces up for another century by Julia Hinckley - The road into Southwest Harbor is awash …Page A16 The Bar Harbor Times August 18, 1994 CLAREMONT from page A15 enormous dump fees. …The recent boom of bed & breakfasts in Southwest Harbor, as well as an increase in competition all over the island , made it necessary for the Claremont …CLAREMON 1 Page A17 The Bar Harbor Times August 18, 1994 Owner Gertrude McCue from page A16 of glittering blue ocean flecked with the white of sails 2068-003.pdf …At the airport in Bangor, and at Bar Harbor Airport in V Trenton , there are Avis, Hertz and S Budget car rentals and taxis. …|available at the Chambers of Com Hi , i merce in Bar Harbor North least Harbor and Southwest Harbor, o 5V and the Park Visitor s Center at Hull 's cove …In Bar Harbor, the Bar Harbor Inn (207 288-3351 or 800-248-3351 ; $80 to $150 in high season ) looks out over Frenchman s Bay. …For a half day trip try Down East Whale Watch, Bar Harbor (288-3322), also $25. It leaves at 8: 30 A.M. or 2:15 P.M. 2068-004.pdf …Calhoun PHOTOGRAPHS BY THOMAS MARK SZELOG "Southwest Harbor's most memorable landmark , however, is what 1 would argue is Maine's best hotel, the vintage 2068-005.pdf …If it s sunny, we rent bicycles in Bar Harbor and head for Acadia s magnifi cent carriage paths, or take the mail ferry from Northeast Harbor to tiny …Perhaps an Bangor, the closest real city an hour aperitif at Bar Harbor s Opera House , northwest , or along the Park Loop Restaurant and Listening Room …The Acadia park en trance was only a short drive away , as was Bar Harbor , Leaving Acadia is always traumatic. …For information on the park, write to the Visitor s Center , Box 177, Bar Harbor , Maine 04609, or call 207 2884932. 2068-006.pdf …Regal comfort winM ftp CLAREMONT HOTEL THE CLAREMONT HOTEL in Southwest Harbor gives guests a taste of what summering in Maine meant during the first …The Claremont Hotel is approximately 155 miles from Portland in Southwest Harbor. Call 1-800-244-5036, or go online at www.theclaremonthotel.com. …SOUTHWEST HARBOR he view from the gentle hilltop where the Clare mont Hotel rises in its 19 th century glory is nothing less than magnif icent. …This single spot on the water s edge in Southwest Harbor is one of the first in the nation to greet each new day s rising sun . | |
| The Southwest Harbor Public Library - Round Table Meeting Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Southwest Harbor Public Library - Round Table Meeting Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Robie Milton Norwood, Jr. (1872-1951) 15 - 16 - Edith Evans – Librarian, Jessup Library, Bar Harbor 17 - Fernald – Louise Lawton (Fernald) Goulding...." - Bar Harbor Times, Thursday, May 22, 1947, page 10 - Mrs. Seth Thornton, Corr., Southwest Harbor, Telephone 66...Evans, of Bar Harbor, Mrs. Cynthia Stanley, Manset; Edith V. Vaughan, Frances W. Weeks, Gertrude F. Durham, Belfast: Charlotte Norwood, Bernard, Mrs...Miss Shaw pronounced the occasion one of the most successful held in small communities." - Bar Harbor Times, Thursday, May 29, 1947, page 1... |
| Nell Rebecca (Carroll) Thornton and Seth Sprague Thornton Leaving Southwest Harbor for Houlton Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Nell Rebecca (Carroll) Thornton and Seth Sprague Thornton Leaving Southwest Harbor for Houlton Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Nell and Seth Thornton are shown leaving Southwest Harbor for their home in Houlton, Maine in a beautiful 1910 Model T Ford automobile...The Model T may belong to Seth or the other man who may possibly be driving them to Bar Harbor or Ellsworth to board the train for Houlton...If the Ford belonged to the Thorntons the trip from Southwest Harbor to Houlton would have taken them at least 11 hours by automobile in 1912...The Carroll family celebrated the Fourth of July every year with a picnic at their old family home, The Mountain House, on Carroll hill in Southwest Harbor... |
| 1951 Map and Cottage Directory of Southwest Harbor, Maine Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  1951 Map and Cottage Directory of Southwest Harbor, Maine Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Directory of Southwest Harbor, Maine compliments of L.S. Robinson Co. Real Estate - Insurance... File Attachment: L.S. Robinson 1951 - Index.pdf …SOUTHWEST HARBOR, MAINE King, Stanwood King, Mrs. Susie Knox, Thomas Knowles, William Krantz, Oscar 476. Insurance and Real Estate Tel. S. W. …Ballard, Anchor Light Studio Bar Harbor Banking & Trust Co. …Southwest Boat CorPSouthwest Harbor Motor Co. Spahr, Boyd Lee 593. 107. 407. | |
| J.C. Ralph Studio on Main Street Looking South, Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  J.C. Ralph Studio on Main Street Looking South, Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...The First Masonic Hall, now 353 Main Street, Southwest Harbor - at the corner of Clark Point Road, - The Hall, built c. 1877 as Tremont Hall, was sold...the building, raised it, and rebuilt the first and second floors to achieve the building shown in all the pictures as the First Masonic Hall – See the Bar...Harbor Times, April 20, 1927, p. 7...These lamps did duty until the installation of electricity in the summer of 1917.” - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount... | |
| Mount Desert Congregational Church of Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Union Church Southwest Harbor Congregational Church Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Mount Desert Congregational Church of Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Union Church Southwest Harbor Congregational Church Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Historic Building/Structure Survey #405-0836 File Attachment: MHPC 405-0836.pdf …In the meantime please note that the Southwest Harbor Architectural Survey Index and the Southwest Harbor Public Library Collection of Photographs Database …Narrative Description The Mount Desert Congregational Church of Southwest Harbor, commonly known as the Southwest Harbor Congregational Church, is a rectangular …Clark died on September 19, 1902 at Southwest Harbor, Maine. …Bar Harbor, Maine: Acadia Publishing, 1988. Reprint edition by Southwest Harbor Public Library of original, 1938, edition. Pages :5-57, 159,162. 10. |
| Carroll - Nellie Rebecca (Carroll) Thornton (1871-1958) Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Carroll - Nellie Rebecca (Carroll) Thornton (1871-1958) Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Nellie is remembered with love and gratitude by generations of Southwest Harbor and Mount Desert Island residents, genealogists and historians from here...and "from away" for her 1938 book, popularly known as, "Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor," a complete and detailed record of the history of...Besides writing the definitive history of Southwest Harbor and its inhabitants she was wrote the social notes for the town that appeared in the Bar Harbor...She made photograph albums for many family members, many of whom have shared her photographs with the Southwest Harbor Public Library... File Attachment: Carroll_-_Nellie_Rebecca_[Carroll]_Thornton_[1871-1958].pdf …Besides writing the definitive history of Southwest Harbor and its inhabitants she was wrote the social notes for the town that appeared in the Bar Harbor …Nellie Rebecca (Carroll) Thornton died on February 3, 1958 in Bar Harbor, Maine. …Obituary Bar Harbor Times Thursday, February 6, 1958 Prominent SWH Woman Succumbs At Age 86 Mrs. Nellie C. Thornton, 86, author of a Mt. …She was Southwest Harbor news correspondent for the Bar Harbor Times for many years. |