File Attachment: 2029-001.pdf …Gotts Island lies one mile south of Bass Harbor Light at the end of Bass HarborBar, but it is three miles from the landing at Bass Harbor to the only …The third son married soon after and settled on Bar Island, now known as Little Gotts Island. …Here she lived all year around from 1910 to 1925, with occasional trips to BarHarbor to visit relatives. …Many famous ministers took services while summering at BarHarbor and Northeast Harbor.
Description: An account of the summer visitors and native population on Gotts Island starting in the 1890's, the book describes the island experience, the families, and changes that took place over the next 100 years.
File Attachment: Gotts Island Maine - Kenway.pdf …Reportedly, one of his guests was President Taft who had come to BarHarbor to play golf. The mansion burned during the BarHarbor fire in 1947. …BarHarbor showed little change. July 4. …On Aug. 19, they look an auto to Southwest Harbor and the train boat to BarHarbor. …Only a duffel bag was found off Egg Rock , BarHarbor.
File Attachment: Vesta E. (Spear) McRae House and Original Bass Harbor Library.pdf …Spear McRae (1842-1916) The first Bass Harbor Library was begun by Vesta E. (Spear) McRae, Mrs. …The new library and free reading room at Bass Harbor supplies a long-felt want in the community. Last autumn Mrs. G.M. …- The BarHarbor Record, January 9, 1901. …In 1909 the Bass Harbor Library in Bernard, Mrs. V. E.
Description: ...He built a try house on a point of land at the mouth of the harbor and used his ship and crew for hunting whales in the surrounding waters, particularly...The try house at Bass Harbor was run by Benson from the time it was built until the process was discontinued...He was called “Little Ben.” - “MDI's Short Lived Whaling Industry Began In Bass Harbor” by LaRue Spiker appeared in the BarHarbor Times on November 3,...Earll, a shore-fishery was begun and successfully prosecuted for a number of years, from Prospect Harbor, in Frenchman's Bay, Maine...
Description: ...A sardine cannery in McKinely, now Bass Harbor...
File Attachment: William Underwood Factory at McKinley.pdf …Desert in the early 1850s at Steamboat Wharf in Southwest Harbor and then moved to what is now Bass Harbor in 1889. …As early as 1853, a lobster cannery was built by Boston parties at Southwest Harbor. …the summer tourists began to come to Mount Desert in great numbers and every boat in the early summer brought crowds of passengers for Southwest and Bar …Harbors, objections began to be made to the factory and its odor.
File Attachment: MOORE MAYO HOUSE - 2005.pdf …Ruth was born and raised on Gott s Island just off Bass Harbor Head, where her parents Lovina and Philip Moore ran the island store and post office, …and Eleanor grew up in Southwest Harbor, the daughter of Fred and Lillian Mayo. …They purchased 18 acres on the Bass Harbor Head lighthouse road and began building in early June of 1947. …Acknowledgements: material for this article was drawn from 1947 articles in the Bangor Daily News and BarHarbor Times and an article written by Ruth for
Description: ...The original address of the building was 411 Main Street, Southwest Harbor. The house on the lot was built by Maurice and Vera Rich...Lobsterland Leveled The BarHarbor Times, August, 1965 by LaRue Spiker ".....
File Attachment: Sea Wall House Hotel.pdf …- Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 206. …The Sea Wall House, South West Harbor, Mount Desert, Me. Boston Daily Globe, p. 10 - June 8, 1884. …One can not write up Southwest Harbor without making some mention of Seawall. The following description by Spray gives one a good idea. …Village - The BarHarbor Record, p. 1, 5, 6 Saturday, June 15, 1895 The Harvard Land Company own here about two hundred acres of land, situated
File Attachment: George Edward Sanford House - T.pdf …along and made nearly a lifetime career of not speaking to each other....My uncle, Jordan, went on to found and operate a sight-seeing boat business in Bar …Harbor. …"Their sister, Annie, married Harry Seavey, and lived in Northeast Harbor. …Gatcomb and Katherine Gertrude (Higgins) Gatcomb, a summer visitor to Southwest Harbor.
File Attachment: Annabells Sept 1990 - 2.pdf …Harbor, she was also pretty dam sure where it would be. …Harbor Times, September 20, 1990 T' The BarHarbor Times Page C2 September 20 , 1990 Annabelle fgS? …Ann 667-6961 OeafoocC O tcE ^ WSTAURANT I ON BASS HARBOR ENJOY OUR FOOD IN A FRIENDLY, INFORMAL SETTING Nestled on the Harbor in a quiet Maine fishing …State: - Saturday we win be closed U am 6 pm for a private party The BarHarbor Times, BOX 68, BarHarbor, Maine 04609 Name: School SATURDAY NIGHT
Description: ...BarHarbor Times, Wednesday, June 6, 1928 LOBSTER POUNDS ARE POPULAR PICNIC RESORTS Wonderland at Seawall and Abel's Pound at Richville Opened for...Desert, at Richville, a little cove between Bass Harbor and Goose Cove. Mr...It has a bluff granite promontory with a little harbor on one side, and a seawall beach on the other, and a growth of big evergreens with little grass...
Description: ...." - "Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine" by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 200 - 1938..."Jonathan Stewart has sold his house in Seawall and will soon build in Southwest Harbor, where he has purchased land." - The BarHarbor Times, June 12,...
Description: ....” – BarHarbor Record, Thursday, January 19, 1888. "The ice dealers have nearly finished filling their ice houses...
File Attachment: John Lenzey Stanley - Life and Business.pdf …BarHarbor Record, Thursday, January 19, 1888. 1903 J.L. Stanley expects soon to begin work on the extension of his wharf. …The BarHarbor Times, April 22, 1925. 1925 - At Spruce Hill, the new development lately opened by the J. L. …The BarHarbor Times, November 11, 1925. 1928 After J.L. Stanley s death his heirs sold the Fisheries to C.W. …Thurlow Davis died on May 18, 1987 in BarHarbor, Maine. Circa 1955 J.L.
File Attachment: William R. Keene Boat Builder - T.pdf …The BarHarbor Record, Thursday, December 19, 1889. 1889: "W. R. …Southwest Harbor, ME." The BarHarbor Record, Thursday, December 19, 1889. …BarHarbor Record, June 15, 1895. 1897: "Steam Yacht For Sale Length 38 feet, has been run part of four seasons. …Keene, Manset, Maine. - BarHarbor Record, Wednesday, July 28, 1897.