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| Building of Arts, Eden Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Building of Arts, Eden Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Building of Arts was built for the summer population of Bar Harbor...See also: "Lost Bar Harbor," p. 110. "Bygone Bar Harbor - A Postcard Tour of Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park," p. 16... | |
| Duck Brook Motor Bridge Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Duck Brook Motor Bridge Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The largest bridge that you've probably never seen on Mount Desert Island is the Duck Brook Motor Road Bridge. Ironically, anyone who drives the Park Loop Road, starting from the Hulls Cove Visitor Center, travels over the bridge (located here), but few people see the bridge itself. That's too bad since it is by far the longest and tallest bridge in the park. In fact, it's the largest continuous concrete arch deck bridge in the eastern United States. At 402' long (not counting the 65' approaches on each side) and having a center arch span of 95', it dwarfs every carriage road bridge in the park, the longest being Amphitheater at 245' and the tallest being Duck Brook at 43' (yes, there are two Duck Brook bridges, one for people and bikes, and this one for cars). An architectural drawing of the bridge indicates a height of 100' from the top of the 30" high parapet guardwall to the water below. So how does the largest road-related structure in Acadia National Park go unnoticed? There are three reasons. First, from above you might not realize you are driving over a bridge because the roadway and shoulders look much like other portions of the loop road. If you happen to park at the turnout located southeast of the bridge, then walk atop the bridge and look over the side, you only get a glimpse of the three stone arches. To really see them, you have to hike down to the brook, but there is no trail and the terrain is dangerously steep. Second, the only view from below is along the narrow and busy stretch of Route 3 between Sonogee and the Holiday Inn. At 40 mph, you wouldn't see the bridge even if you knew the exact instant when and where to look. Finally, from below, the bridge is almost entirely obscured in summer by deciduous trees growing in the deep ravine that the bridge spans. To see this magnificent structure which was constructed from 1950 to 1953 using granite from Hall Quarry in Somesville, you have to seek it out at the right time of year. The Duck Brook Motor Road Bridge is truly a hidden architectural and historical gem. John D. Rockefeller purchased the land for the Paradise Hill Road where the bridge is located, donated the land to to the park, and was involved in planning the road as early as 1934, but World War II and subsequent funding shortages delayed the start of construction. As many as 75 men were on the job at one time with total labor estimated at 92,000 hours. Total cost of the structure was $366,000 making it the most expensive road-related structure in the park at the time of its completion. George Soules - November 2015 [show more] File Attachments: Duck Brook Motor Bridge.pdf …Brook Motor Bridge Name: Duck Brook Bridge What: Bridge Location: Spans Duck Brook on Paradise Hill Road, 1 mile SE of Hulls Cove Visitor Center Town: Bar …Harbor State: Maine Map and Lot Numbers: Map: US GEO 1956 ANP - Duck Brook Bridges GPS (Global Positioning System) Latitude, Longitude: 44.399176, me0254data.pdf …DUCK BROOK BRIDGE Acadia National Park Roads & Bridges Spanning Duck Brook on Paradise Hill Road Bar Harbor Vicinity Hancock County Maine WRITTEN HISTORICAL …LOCATION Spanning Duck Brook on Paradise Hill Road, 1 mile SE of Hulls Cove Visitor Center, Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor vicinity. …Bar Harbor, ME: Friends of Acadia, 1993. Newspaper Articles "Acadia's Stone Bridges Link Past and Future," Bar Harbor [ME] Times, 23 April 1987. …Bar Harbor, ME. Brown's Studio, | |
| A Memorial Walk - Bar Harbor to Sieur de Monts Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  A Memorial Walk - Bar Harbor to Sieur de Monts Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2012-06-24 A Memorial Walk - Bar Harbor to Sieur de Monts.pdf …The walk starts at the 1906 horse trough/fountain at the southeast corner of Bar Harbor's village green. …You'll pass three churches: the Congregational Church, since rebuilt, was the first church in Bar Harbor; St. …You are now heading back to Bar Harbor. Behind the Nature Center is a memorial to George Dorr. …Harbor you might wish to get Betty Massie's SelfGuided Walking Tour of Historic Bar Harbor. | |
| Acadia National Park's Other Bar Island Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Acadia National Park's Other Bar Island Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2013-01-10 Acadia National Park's Other Bar Island.pdf …entrance to Somes Harbor and off Squantum Point is Bar Island. …Courtesy: Northeast Harbor Library Courtesy: Northeast Harbor Library An 1887 map shows Bar Island and depicts the locations of the log cabin, a well …Mapmakers have consistently labeled the island as Bar Island; yet, it was often locally referred to as Pryor's Island. 2 Bar Harbor Times, 6/13/1934; p …. 8. 3 Bar Harbor Times, 8/26/1925; p. 12. 4 Memorial GPS coordinates: N44 21.390' W068 19.427' | |
| The Seal Harbor Shore Path Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Seal Harbor Shore Path Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2015-08-14 The Seal Harbor Shore Path.pdf …Anne Funderburk, a Seal Harbor resident and historian, recollects "The Seal Harbor Shore Path was built and maintained by Cooksey Realty (later Seal Harbor …Photo acknowledgements: * Seal Harbor Library ** Southwest Harbor Public Library - W. H. …Bar Harbor Record. …Desert Island Maine, published by the Village Improvement Societies of Bar Harbor, Seal Harbor, Northeast [Harbor], and Southwest Harbor. 1915. 4 Walks | |
| The Memorials of Acadia Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  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... | |
| Northeast Harbor's Schoolhouse Ledge - a Place for a Peaceful Hike Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Northeast Harbor's Schoolhouse Ledge - a Place for a Peaceful Hike Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2012-09-05 Northeast Harbor's Schoolhouse Ledge - a Place for a Peaceful Hike.pdf …We d n e s d a y, S e p t e m b e r 5 , 2 0 1 2 2012 Don Lenahan Northeast Harbor's Schoolhouse Ledge - a Place for a Peaceful Hike Northeast Harbor …downtown on the south and the Northeast Harbor Golf Course on the west. …The "Northeast Harbor Trail Map" is in the form of an attractive brochure available at a number of village venues, including the Northeast Harbor Library …Published by The Village Improvement Societies of Bar Harbor, Seal Harbor, Northeast [sic], and Southwest Harbor. 1915. 3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ | |
| The Gurnee Path - Built, Endowed and Abandoned Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Gurnee Path - Built, Endowed and Abandoned Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2015-09-08 The Gurnee Path -- Built, Endowed and Abandoned.pdf …In its August notes of that year the Bar Harbor VIA stated the following: Mr. …He was among the original incorporators of the Bar Harbor VIA. …in scholarship, $10,000 to the Bar Harbor YMCA, and $5,000 to the Bar Harbor VIA to maintain the How memorial on a triangular lot he deeded to the VIA …Grandgent, 1928, p.79. 3 Bar Harbor Times, July 3, 1941, p.4. 4 North entrance/pull-off GPS coordinates: N44 24.530' W068 14.478' 5 Bar Harbor Record | |
| The Pulpits of Acadia Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Pulpits of Acadia Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2013-07-11 The Pulpits of Acadia.pdf …The earliest rock formation to be called Pulpit Rock appears to have been the one in Bar Harbor. It was noted in 1869 by Benjamin F. De Costa. …Harbor ca.1915 Pulpit Rock - Bar Harbor today Mountains.*3 That same year a newspaper article describing the Cadillac Mountain path system stated, " …Bates, Rand and Jaques. 1896. 4 Bar Harbor Record. …Revised and published by William Jay Turner. 1941. 9 Bar Harbor Times. September 15, 1960, p. 1. | |
| Waldron Bates - The Pathmaker Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Waldron Bates - The Pathmaker Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2012-04-04_Waldron_Bates_-_Pathmaker.pdf ….*1 It is a memorial to Waldron Bates, designed by New York sculptor and Bar Harbor summer resident, William Ordway Partridge. …How, an early developer of Bar Harbor. Bates graduated from Harvard in 1879 and received his law degree from Boston University in 1882. …News of the tragic death of Waldron Bates prompted the Bar Harbor community to establish additional memorials: - The Bar Harbor VIA changed the name of …In his will he left $5,000 to the Bar Harbor VIA for it to use the income to repair the "mountain paths of the island of Mount Desert." | |
| Acadia National Park's Forsaken Lakes Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Acadia National Park's Forsaken Lakes Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2014-05-18 Acadia National Park's Forsaken Lakes.pdf …They are walkable at low water level and are similar to the stepping stones along the west side of The Tarn, south of Bar Harbor. …The 4-acre pond was owned by Charles How, a Bostonian who came to Bar Harbor in 1870. …How of the Fawn Pond and forty acres of land to the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association 1906. …*Footnotes: 1 Bar Harbor Record, December 1, 1892, p.4. 2 Bar Harbor Record September 21, 1898, p.5. 3 Bar Harbor Times, March 28, 1934, p.7. 4 I am thankful | |
| Edith Bowdoin and Her Horse Troughs Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Edith Bowdoin and Her Horse Troughs Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2013-09-08 Edith Bowdoin and Her Horse Troughs.pdf ….*1 South of Bar Harbor's Main Street, at the corner of Route 3 and Schooner Head Road, is what was once a horse trough (GPS: N44 22.298' W068 11.809 …Now, compliments of the Town of Bar Harbor via the A. C. Parsons Landscaping and Garden Center, it is a beautiful floral planter. …During summers they resided in Bar Harbor at "La Rochelle" on West Street. Her father built the stately brick home in 1902. …Upon his death in 1913, Edith inherited all of his property in Bar Harbor. | |
| The Emery Path - Another Historic Gem in Acadia National Park Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Emery Path - Another Historic Gem in Acadia National Park Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2013-12-09 The Emery Path -- Another Historic Gem in Acadia NP.pdf …John continued his involvement in Bar Harbor, where he was a member of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association's Roads and Paths committee under …The construction of The Turrets wasn't Emery's first time in Bar Harbor. …He was there at least by 1881, when he stayed at theRodick House hotel, and continued to visit Bar Harbor thereafter. …Bar Harbor Mount Desert Herald, July 17, 1881, p.2. 3 The Turrets is now a campus administrative building of the College of the Atlantic. 4 Bar Harbor | |
| The Cross on Flying Mountain, Acadia National Park - a Mystery Unraveled Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Cross on Flying Mountain, Acadia National Park - a Mystery Unraveled Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2014-10-22 The Cross on Flying Mountain, Acadia National Park -- a Mystery Unraveled.pdf …Eyebolts Cut rod and brace What these iron relics are is revealed in a 1924 Bar Harbor Times photograph, which shows a cross on top of Flying Mountain …"*2 Bar Harbor Times The wooden cross was designed for Aimee (Rotch) Sargent, wife of Winthrop Sargent, summer residents of Northeast Harbor, by the …Saviour Episcopal Church in Bar Harbor and other structures on Mount Desert Island. …*Footnotes: 1 Bar Harbor Times, March 19, 1924, p. 3. 2 Eliot retired as president of Harvard in 1909, a position he had held for 40 years. | |
| Drexel - Katharine Drexel (1858 - 1955) Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Drexel - Katharine Drexel (1858 - 1955) Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2017-03-17 A Saint in Bar Harbor.pdf …2017 Don Lenahan F r i d a y, M a r c h 1 7 , 2 0 1 7 A Saint in Bar Harbor Among the visitors to Bar Harbor, ME during summers surrounding 1900 was …Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament motherhouse Her association with Bar Harbor was tied to her sister Louise and brother-in-law Edward Morrell, who in 1897 …There is a memorial plaque to Edward Morrell on a large granite boulder in front of the Jackson Laboratory off Route 3 on the south side of Bar Harbor. …The former convent is now the site of the Bar Harbor Historical Society and the school is an apartment building. 2. | |
| The Curran Path - a Once Long and Lovely Walk Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Curran Path - a Once Long and Lovely Walk Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2012-06-10 The Curran Path - a Once Long and Lovely Walk.pdf …By 1896 Nicholas was the proprietor of a second Curran House, a small hotel on Main Street near the wharf in downtown Bar Harbor. …In 1902 Mary Curran, now a widow, sold the property to Frank Brewer, who sold it to the Bar Harbor Water Company in 1915. …Harbor's water supply. …It is interesting to note that Nicholas complained to the Bar Harbor Water Company in 1897 about the loss of his property shoreline due to the higher water | |
| Acadia National Park, Founded on Inspiration, Perseverance and Generosity Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Acadia National Park, Founded on Inspiration, Perseverance and Generosity Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2014-07-21 Acadia National Park, Founded on Inspiration, Perseverance and Generosity.pdf …In 1881 he established his summer home in Northeast Harbor. …in Bar Harbor a few years later. …An entrepreneurial graduate of Harvard, he launched a successful horticultural nursery and a granite quarrying business in Bar Harbor. …There are two peaks on its popular ridgeline, which overshadows downtown Bar Harbor's southwest flank. | |
| Acadia National Park's Discarded Sweet Waters of Acadia Slab Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Acadia National Park's Discarded Sweet Waters of Acadia Slab Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2012-12-03 Acadia National Park's Discarded Sweet Waters of Acadia Slab.pdf …In 1915 the Bar Harbor Times published that the Sieur de Monts Spring Company, a Maine corporation headed by George B. …One of these, Meadow Road, led from Bar Harbor's Ledgelawn Avenue, cutting straight through the swampy east side of Great Meadow. …Sieur de Monts Pool today *Footnotes: 1 GPS coordinates of the slab: N44 21.844' W068 12.251' 2 Bar Harbor Times, 9/18/1915; p. 1. 3 Bar Harbor Times | |
| Skiing on Mount Desert Island - a Look Back Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Skiing on Mount Desert Island - a Look Back Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2014-02-24 Skiing on Mount Desert Island -- a Look Back.pdf …This type of chancy skiing changed somewhat in 1936 with the establishment of a formal downhill enterprise on McFarland Hill in Bar Harbor. …McFarland Field today looking north to McFarland Hill *Footnotes: 1 These downhill venues are mentioned in numerous Bar Harbor Times articles of the MDI …from the summit to the Featherbed; and the old carriage road refers to the historic buckboard road that once ran from Eagle Lake Road to the summit. 2 Bar …Harbor Times, December 19, 1940, p.1. 3 Bar Harbor Times, September 12, 1940, p.1. 4 A special thanks to Messrs. | |
| Cushing - Sarah Eliza Sigourney Cushing (1832 - 1915) Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Cushing - Sarah Eliza Sigourney Cushing (1832 - 1915) Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2016-09-29 A Pleasant Perambulation.pdf …HIKERS: RUTH AND TRIS COLKET DECEMBER 1998 Philanthropists, they donated $5 million to Acadia Trails Forever, a joint project of Acadia National Park and Bar …Harbor-based Friends of Acadia to restore and maintain the park s historic trail system. …Ruth is a board member of the Maine Sea Coast Mission, a non-denominational Christian charity on West Street in Bar Harbor. …Saviour s Church in Bar Harbor. | |
| Start of FOA-Acadia NP's 2013 Volunteer Season Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Start of FOA-Acadia NP's 2013 Volunteer Season Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2013-04-25 Start of FOA-Acadia NP's 2013 Volunteer Season.pdf …The volunteers are under the aegis of Friends of Acadia, an independent nonprofit located in Bar Harbor, ME, with work projects selected by Acadia National …Kebo Brook Trail (purple) Strath Eden Path stone at trail junction A nice feature of the Kebo Brook Trail is its easy accessibility from downtown Bar …Harbor via the Great Meadow Loop Trail. …GPS location: N44 21.997' W068 12.765' 3 See blog post "A Memorial Walk: Bar Harbor to Sieur de Monts," dated June 24, 2012. | |
| 2013-11-01 Acadia National Park's Oceanfront Cottage Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  2013-11-01 Acadia National Park's Oceanfront Cottage Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2013-11-01 Acadia NP's Oceanfront Cottage.pdf …enlarged view This oceanfront building was a cottage belonging to Reverend Christopher Starr Leffingwell, a native Ohioan who became the first rector of Bar …Harbor's St. …Harbor. …Harbor Times, September 12, 1928, p. 3. 3 Because of Dorr's U.S. | |
| Unexpected Finds in a National Park Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Unexpected Finds in a National Park Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2014-04-21 Unexpected Finds in a National Park.pdf …(Higgins) Fitzgerrell (1811-1898) of Bar Harbor on July 28, 1839. …They had six children, three sons and three daughters, all born in Bar Harbor between 1840 and 1852. …Bar Harbor Times, December 3, 1919, p.4. 3 Newman grave GPS coordinates: N44 22.674' W068 15.473'. | |
| The Fire Lookouts of Acadia National Park Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Fire Lookouts of Acadia National Park Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2014-08-27 The Fire Lookouts of Acadia National Park.pdf …Explorers making a discovery *Footnotes: 1 Bar Harbor Times, April 14, 1949, p. 10. 2 Pathmakers, Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation, National …Support pins and an eyebolt still remain. 4 Bar Harbor Times, June 15, 1932, p. 2. 5 Armstrong Cork Corp. bought The Whitall Tatum Co. in 1938. …Hilton, Moosehead Communications, Greenville, ME. 1997. 7 Bar Harbor Times, October 16, 1936, p.1. | |
| Hiking the Trails of Acadia NP's Schoodic Peninsula Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Hiking the Trails of Acadia NP's Schoodic Peninsula Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2013-05-15 Hiking the Trails of Acadia NP's Schoodic Peninsula.pdf …National Park across Frenchman Bay that is off the beaten track for Park visitors to Mount Desert Island, as it is about a 48-mile, 75-minute drive from Bar …Harbor, ME. …Moore earlier had established the Grindstone Neck community in Winter Harbor as an optional wealthy enclave to those on Schoodic Head summit station benchmark …The site was the innovation of New Yorker and Bar Harbor summer resident Alessandro Fabbri, who established it in 1917 during WW I. |