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| 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... | |
| Precipice Trail Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  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. | ||
| Eagle Lake Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  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 Bar …Harbor. …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 |
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|  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 Bar …Harbor. | ||
| Great Head Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Great Head Southwest Harbor Public Library 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 Bar Harbor to Southwest Harbor by water. No description can do justice to its savage grandeur. | ||
| Otter Creek Cliffs Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  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 | ||
| Duck Brook Carriage Road Bridge Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Duck Brook Carriage Road Bridge Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Duck Brook Carriage Road Bridge.pdf …Desert, ME 04660, Printed by The Bar Harbor Times Print Shop, 1985, 1986, 1987. See also: Duck Brook Motor Bridge | ||
| Green Mountain Railway Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Green Mountain Railway Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Harbor and Mount Desert Island" by William Berry Lapham, p. 16 - 1887...No person should visit Bar Harbor 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 Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island By...See “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., p. 155... | ||
| Green Mountain House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Green Mountain House Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Green Mountain House.pdf …" - The Story of Bar Harbor An Informal History Recording One Hundred and Fifty Years in the Life of a Community, by Richard Walden Hale, …The whole distance from Bar Harbor 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 Bar Harbor cover the point, with a fleet of yachts and steamboats off-shore …Beyond are the Porcupine Islands, Bar Island over the left of Bar Harbor, with Sheep Porcupine next, and then Burnt Porcupine, and then Round Porcupine | ||
| Satterlee Tea House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Satterlee Tea House Southwest Harbor Public Library 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 Bar Harbor Village Improvement system. of the late 1800's. …Buildings burnt to the ground in the 1947 Bar Harbor Fire. …Harbor nearly lost his life and is now in the Bar Harbor hospital at the point of death, as a result of being struck heavily on the head. …Lenahan, Bar Harbor, Maine, 2010, p. 50-51 | ||
| Bryant Bradley Studio, Bar Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Bryant Bradley Studio, Bar Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...The photography studio of Bryant Bradley in Bar Harbor. 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: Bar Harbor State: Maine Map and Lot: Map 104 Lot 515-516 Map: C&S BH PLAN 1887 and "Bird's eye view of Bar Harbor, Mount Desert Island, Hancock | ||
| Bar Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Bar Harbor Casino Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Bar Harbor Record Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Bar Harbor Shore Path Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| The Shore Path - Bar Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Shore Path - Bar Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Native American Camp at Bar Harbor - "Indian Village" Second Location Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Native American Camp at Bar Harbor - "Indian Village" Second Location Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Albert Wilson Bee's Stationery Store and Shop A.W. Bee, Stationers Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Description: ...Bee II was a newspaper agent in Boston, who established a branch store offering newspapers, stationary, fruit, and confections in Bar Harbor during the... “I shall open my stores at Bar Harbor, 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 Bar Harbor Record; this one on March 17, 1887... File Attachment: Bee - Albert Wilson Bee - Entrepreneur.pdf …The Bar Harbor Record, March 10, 1887. …Bee, Bar Harbor, Me." The Bar Harbor Record, Thursday, August 15, 1889. …Bee, Bar Harbor, Me." The Bar Harbor Record, Thursday, August 15, 1889. …The Bar Harbor Record, Thursday, June 20, 1889. | ||
| A. Bird Cough Store Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  A. Bird Cough Store Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...." - The Bar Harbor Record, June 16, 1909 - quoted in The Bar Harbor 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 Bar Harbor in the 6th building from Main Street on the south... | ||
| Civilian Conservation Corps - Company 154 Eagle Lake Camp Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Description: ...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... 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. | ||
| Daniel Leland Jr. House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Daniel Leland Jr. House Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...According to Robert Leland, father of Patti Leland of Trenton, in 1849 this house was moved to its present location at 945 Bar Harbor Road, Map 19 – Lot...6 from about a quarter of a mile closer to Mount Desert Island (probably near 1007 Bar Harbor Road, Map 15 – Lot 16)...The Bar Harbor 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... | ||
| Jesup Memorial Library Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Jesup Memorial Library Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...." - “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... File Attachment: Jesup Memorial Library.pdf …Desert Street City: Bar Harbor 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., …Bar Harbor Record, undated, 1911. The Jesup Memorial Library was dedicated on August 30, 1911. The Right Rev. | ||
| Luere Babson Deasy Great Harbor Maritime Museum |
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|  Luere Babson Deasy Great Harbor Maritime Museum Description: ...Deasy was admitted to the Bar in 1884. Prior to sitting on the Court, Deasy practiced in Bar Harbor...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 Bar Harbor... | ||
| Porcupine Hotel Hotel Florence Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  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 Bar Harbor hotels... | ||
| Porcupine Islands Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Porcupine Islands Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...The Porcupine Islands, named for their resemblance to a group of porcupines, in Frenchman Bay off the coast of Bar Harbor... |