Description: ...From 2012 to 2017, Don Lenahan of BarHarbor, Maine wrote blog posts about the people, geography, and history of Acadia National Park...
File Attachment: Precipice Trail - T.pdf …Funded by: BarHarbor 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 BarHarbor System " …BarHarbor Times, November 21, 1914, p. 1.
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 Bar …Harbor. …During the summer season, several times each day, four horse barges run from BarHarbor 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 BarHarbor to Eagle Lake by a hundred oxen and
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 Bar …Harbor.
Description: Great Head is located near Sand Beach in Acadia National Park. The area was owned in the early 1900s by the Satterlee family and they built an observatory and a tea house on the point. The ruins of the structure remain. J.P. Morgan had purchased 110 acres on the Maine coast at Mount Desert including Great Head, now given to Acadia National Park, as a gift for his daughter, Louisa. She and her husband Herbert Satterlee had built their country home there and enjoyed it for many years. [show more]
File Attachment: Great Head.pdf …Great Head is a prominent object when passing from BarHarbor to Southwest Harbor by water. No description can do justice to its savage grandeur.
File Attachment: Otter Creek Cliffs.pdf …Benjamin Franklin De Costa (1831-1904) "Otter Cliffs The drive from BarHarbor to the Otter Cliffs is five miles, and the road, nearly parallel with
File Attachment: Duck Brook Carriage Road Bridge.pdf …Desert, ME 04660, Printed by The BarHarbor Times Print Shop, 1985, 1986, 1987. See also: Duck Brook Motor Bridge
Description: ...Harbor and Mount Desert Island" by William Berry Lapham, p. 16 - 1887...No person should visit BarHarbor without ascending Green Mountain by way of Eagle Lake and the Green Mountain Railway...The journey up the mountain and the magnificent outlook from the summit…" - Part of an advertisement appearing in BarHarbor and Mount Desert Island By...See “The Story of BarHarbor – An Informal History Recording One Hundred and Fifty Years In the Life of a Community,” by Richard Walden Hale, Jr., p. 155...
File Attachment: Green Mountain House.pdf …" - The Story of BarHarbor An Informal History Recording One Hundred and Fifty Years in the Life of a Community, by Richard Walden Hale, …The whole distance from BarHarbor cannot be more than four miles, and good walkers call it less. …At the foot of the mountain the winding roads a:nd red roofs and great hotels of BarHarbor cover the point, with a fleet of yachts and steamboats off-shore …Beyond are the Porcupine Islands, Bar Island over the left of BarHarbor, with Sheep Porcupine next, and then Burnt Porcupine, and then Round Porcupine
Description: According to an article entitled "The Stone Tower on Great Head" by Gladys O'Neil in the Journal of Friends of Acadia and reprinted in "The Rusticator's Journal" (1993, Friends of Acadia), the observatory was actually a stone tea house tower built in 1915. The land (Great Head and Sand Beach) was bought by J.P. Morgan in 1910 as a gift for his daughter, Louisa Satterlee. The great fire of 1947 damaged the tower and destroyed the three nearby bungalows. Louisa Satterlee's daughter, Eleanor, donated the land two years after the fire to Acadia National Park. For safety reasons, what was left of the tower after the fire was torn down so that only the foundation remains. [show more]
File Attachment: Satterlee Tea House.pdf …The trail was part of the BarHarbor Village Improvement system. of the late 1800's. …Buildings burnt to the ground in the 1947 BarHarbor Fire. …Harbor nearly lost his life and is now in the BarHarbor hospital at the point of death, as a result of being struck heavily on the head. …Lenahan, BarHarbor, Maine, 2010, p. 50-51
Description: ...The photography studio of Bryant Bradley in BarHarbor. Bradley built a three-story office building on Main Street to house his business...
File Attachment: Bryant Bradley Studio, Bar Harbor.pdf …92~ Main Street The Bradley Block occupied the land, now driveways and parking lots, between The Field and Stephens Lane between what is now The Bar …Harbor Bank and Trust Company at 82 Main Street and the First National Bank at 102 Main Street. …City: BarHarbor State: Maine Map and Lot: Map 104 Lot 515-516 Map: C&S BH PLAN 1887 and "Bird's eye view of BarHarbor, Mount Desert Island, Hancock
Description: ...Bee II was a newspaper agent in Boston, who established a branch store offering newspapers, stationary, fruit, and confections in BarHarbor during the... “I shall open my stores at BarHarbor, with my usual line of summer goods, early in June; and at Southwest Harbor, July 1st.” – The bottom...lines of a front page ad that Albert ran in many issues of the BarHarbor Record; this one on March 17, 1887...
File Attachment: Bee - Albert Wilson Bee - Entrepreneur.pdf …The BarHarbor Record, March 10, 1887. …Bee, BarHarbor, Me." The BarHarbor Record, Thursday, August 15, 1889. …Bee, BarHarbor, Me." The BarHarbor Record, Thursday, August 15, 1889. …The BarHarbor Record, Thursday, June 20, 1889.
Description: ...." - The BarHarbor Record, June 16, 1909 - quoted in The BarHarbor Times, June 18, 2009, p. 34. A...Bird Cough was Daniel and Elvira's son Adoniram Bird Cough (1872-1949) who opened his store in BarHarbor in the 6th building from Main Street on the south...
Description: ...The Eagle Lake CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camp (NP-1), Company 154, at BarHarbor was operated under the supervision of the National Park Service...
File Attachment: CCC – Company 154 – BH - T.pdf …History CCC Company 154 BH Civilian Conservation Corps - Company 154 Eagle Lake Camp Address: 22 McFarland Hill Drive (Eagle Lake Road) City: Bar …Company 158 Great Pond [Long Pond] Camp ME SWH Long Pond Road - 059 The Eagle Lake CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camp (NP-1), Company 154, at Bar …Harbor was operated under the supervision of the National Park Service from May 1934 to June 1942. …In June 1933, Company 158 (NP-2) established a work camp on Great [Long] Pond near Southwest Harbor.
Description: ...According to Robert Leland, father of Patti Leland of Trenton, in 1849 this house was moved to its present location at 945 BarHarbor Road, Map 19 – Lot...6 from about a quarter of a mile closer to Mount Desert Island (probably near 1007 BarHarbor Road, Map 15 – Lot 16)...The BarHarbor Road has been widened so the house now lies closer to the road, although it is more difficult to see as trees have grown up around it...
Description: ...." - “The Story of BarHarbor – An Informal History Recording One Hundred and Fifty Years In the Life of a Community,” by Richard Walden Hale, Jr., Ives...
File Attachment: Jesup Memorial Library.pdf …Desert Street City: BarHarbor State: Maine Map and Lot: Map 104 Lot 433 NRHP: 91000323 Date Original Library Founded: 1875 Benefactor: Maria Van Antwerp …in 1875 by summer visitors who left their books for winter use, and clubbed together to get the services of a part-time librarian." - The Story of Bar …Harbor An Informal History Recording One Hundred and Fifty Years In the Life of a Community, by Richard Walden Hale, Jr., Ives Washburn, Inc., …BarHarbor Record, undated, 1911. The Jesup Memorial Library was dedicated on August 30, 1911. The Right Rev.
Description: ...Deasy was admitted to the Bar in 1884. Prior to sitting on the Court, Deasy practiced in BarHarbor...Deasy served as President of both the Hancock County Bar Association and the Maine State Bar Association...He served as Chief until his retirement on February 7, 1930, when he returned to private practice in BarHarbor...
Description: ...bay roof caps, steep-pitched roof planes, and tall, corbelled brick chimneys…represented [with the larger Malvern Hotel] an impressive conclusion to Bar...Harbor’s opulent Victorian hotel era.” - “Summer By The Seaside: The Architecture of New England Coastal Resort Hotels, 1820-1950” by Bryant F...Tolles, Jr., p. 165, 170, University Press of New England – 2008 - An excellent study including information about The Island House in Southwest Harbor...and its place in the range of hotels on the island during this period along with a very complete history of many of the BarHarbor hotels...