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| Gordon & White Garage Howard E. Robinson Garage Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Description: ...The Gordon & White garage, on Main Street in Southwest Harbor, was an Esso station and sold Fords, Mercurys and Kiekhaefer Mercury outboard motors... File Attachment: Gordon & White Garage.pdf …Garage Car Dealer Address: 322-326-330 Main Street City: Southwest Harbor State: Maine Map and Lot: Map 6 Lot 44-1 44-6 Map: ROB 1951 GORDON …Original Owner: Robinson Howard Ernest Robinson (1896-1972) Date Built: 1928 The Gordon & White garage, on Main Street in Southwest Harbor, was an …Bar Harbor Times, January 1928. …of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. | ||
| Simeon Holden Mayo's Blacksmith and Bicycle Shop William Lloyd Carroll's Cash Market Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Simeon Holden Mayo's Blacksmith and Bicycle Shop William Lloyd Carroll's Cash Market Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Simeon Holden Mayo's Blacksmith and Bicycle Shop.pdf …City: Southwest Harbor State: Maine Map and Lot: Circa Map 6 Lots 119-120 Map: CS 1887 and CS 1887: J S MAYO Build Date: 1884 Original Owner: Mayo …- Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. …He plans to move the building owned by him on the Clark's Point Road to the site and make a permanent residence for himself and family there." - Bar Harbor …Higgins purchased it and moved it to its present site." - Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. | ||
| Bunker Boatyard check Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Bunker Boatyard check Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: ...MacAllister, Bar Harbor Banking & Trust Co... | |||
| Ralph Stanley Inc. Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Ralph Stanley Inc. Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...After earning an associate's degree from a college in northern Maine, Stanley returned to Southwest Harbor... File Attachment: Ralph W. Stanley Inc.pdf …Stanley was born February 9, 1929, in Bar Harbor, on Maine's Mt. Desert Island. …Stanley grew up in the small island community of Southwest Harbor. …After earning an associate's degree from a college in northern Maine, Stanley returned to Southwest Harbor. …Historical Society Tremont Historical Society Southwest Harbor Historical Society Fellow of the G.W. | ||
| C.E. Clement’s Boat Shop Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  C.E. Clement’s Boat Shop Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: C.E. Clement Boat Builders.pdf …Here and at Northeast Harbor are moored many pleasure craft whose owners reside at Bar Harbor and name that as their home port. A.E. …- The Bar Harbor Times, September 9, 1925. Chester Clement wasn t a very good bookkeeper. …Bar Harbor Times, April 20, 1927. 1927: "C.E. …Bar Harbor Times, April 20, 1927. "Chester Clement bought the place in [1925,] I think it was. | ||
| Southwest Boat Corporation Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Southwest Boat Corporation Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: SW Boat - Manset Marine History.pdf …Vira Jane Robinson was born on October 8, 1867 in Southwest Harbor. Simeon H. "Sim" Mayo died on October 3, 1933 in Southwest Harbor. …Bar Harbor Times, December 2, 1925, p. 2. …The Bar Harbor Times, September 9, 1925. …Clark Point Road in Southwest Harbor in 1937. | ||
| A.E. Parker Wharf and Boat Shop Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  A.E. Parker Wharf and Boat Shop Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: A.E. Parker Wharf and Boat Shop.pdf …Address 168 Clark Point Road City Southwest Harbor State Maine Map and Lot: Map 4 Lot 29 Map - ROB 1951 SW BOAT CORP Original Owner …- The Bar Harbor Times, September 9, 1925. Southwest Harbor A.E. | ||
| R.M. Norwood Company Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  R.M. Norwood Company Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The R.M. Norwood Company did the original construction of the Wendell Gilley Museum. File Attachment: R.M. Norwood Company.pdf …Norwood Company Address: 19 Clark Point Road City: Southwest Harbor State: Maine Map and Lot Number: Map 6 - Lot 99 Map: San 1921 Norwood Carpenter …Nell Thornton ( Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. …- Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. …": The Bar Harbor Times, February 17, 1917. 1932: "Robie M. | ||
| The Tweed Shop Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Tweed Shop Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Tweed Shop.pdf …Bar Harbor hosted "Olive's Tweed Shop" or the "Bar Harbor Tweed Shop" at various times from at least 1945 to 1968. …Seal Harbor 100 Bar Harbor Times, July 18, 1940. "Ritchie Imports, Ltd. Southwest Harbor Main Street 735 Madison Ave., N.Y. …Ritchie 735 Madison Avenue, New York" - Bar Harbor Times July 21, 1949. …of friends." - Bar Harbor Times March 14, 1957. | ||
| William Underwood Factory at McKinley Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  William Underwood Factory at McKinley Southwest Harbor Public Library 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. | ||
| Fred Mayo's Carpenter Shop - 2nd Location Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Fred Mayo's Carpenter Shop - 2nd Location Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Fred Mayo’s Carpenter Shop - 2nd Location.pdf …City: Southwest Harbor State: Maine Map and Lot: Map 6: Lot 26 This building was built by Fred Sidney Mayo in 1926 Mayo Fred Sidney Mayo (1877-1949 …Mayo built his house [at 9 Wesley Avenue] in 1922-23 and his shop in 1926." - Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert …Mayo will do cabinet work at which he has been employed for the past few years." - Bar Harbor Times, January 4, 1922, p. 6. …A full line of finish lumber, flooring, sash, doors, clapboards, shingles, etc.. will be carried in stock." - Bar Harbor Times, September 15, 1926. | |||
| Sylvester W. Dorr Carpenter Shop Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Sylvester W. Dorr Carpenter Shop Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: E.A._Lawler_Paint_Company.pdf …Store Robinson Brothers Automobile Accessories Coastline Construction ME - SWH Clark Point Road 040 Address: 40 Clark Point Road City: Southwest Harbor …- Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. …The other side is occupied by Robinson Brothers as a salesroom for automobile accessories and they are to remain there." - Bar Harbor Times, May 9, 1923 …Clark, is a descendant of the first Clark settler in Southwest Harbor." The Ellsworth American, Wednesday, February 28, 1947. | ||
| Wild Island Farm seed collection Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Wild Island Farm seed collection Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: ...folder of materials (F) relating to Wild Island Farm, the seed business, and a newspaper article “Polly Forbes Johnson Storey: A Spirit of Independence” (Bar...Harbor Times, October 21, 1976)...Blue Flag (Iris versicolor): No date packed etc, but an Acadia Shops sticker (no bar code) $1.50 on reverse...Newspaper article “Polly Forbes Johnson Storey: A Spirit of Independence” (Bar Harbor Times, October 21, 1976)... | ||
| Richard 'Chuddy' Alley Interview Transcript Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Richard 'Chuddy' Alley Interview Transcript Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Interview Transcript from an interview with Richard 'Chuddy' Alley. The interview was recorded in the 2000's (exact year unknown) by Jessi Duma and Jenny Matthews, who both lived on the island for a number of years. Chuddy came to GCI as a young boy, and recounts many memories of Great Cranberry in the early to mid 20th century. He talks about agriculture and fishing extensively with Jessi. He moved over to Islesford and his son Ricky Alley speaks about fishing with a fish trap, and Pursing. Jessi was a Cranberry Island Fellow and became the general manager for GCIHS for a few years. Interview with transcribed by Hannah Gower-Fox. She was the Archivist and Museum Curator for GCIHS in 2023. [show more] File Attachment: Chuddy_Alley_Transcript.pdf …CA; There s one over Bar Harbor that's loaded every year. JD: Where is that? CA: Bar Harbor. RA: That Hulls Cove? …CA: yeah on the road to Bar Harbor. JD: Is that that same one you were thinking of? CA: Hairdresser. RA: the hairdresser. …RA: And other times I ve taken it, like David Thomas and I went up to Northeast Harbor and over on the west side of the Harbor before you get into the …middle, into the Harbor before that low grey house, what's that called? | ||
| Maine Greets Opening of Yarmouth-Bar Harbor Ferry 1956 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Maine Greets Opening of Yarmouth-Bar Harbor Ferry 1956 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: ...Newpaper clipping, Bangor Daily News, 6 June 1956, pp. 17-18 & 21-22, "Maine Greets Opening of Yarmouth-Bar Harbor Ferry," about the new ferry terminal...in Bar Harbor, and the Bluenose ferry... | |||
| "A New Super Highway", Bluenose Ferry, Bar Harbor to Nova Scotia Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  "A New Super Highway", Bluenose Ferry, Bar Harbor to Nova Scotia Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: ...Newspaper clipping, "A new Superhighway" about new Bluenose ferry terminal and service from Bar Harbor to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia... | |||
| J.L. Stanley Fisheries Ice Pond Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  J.L. Stanley Fisheries Ice Pond Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ....” - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 92. “J.L....” – Bar Harbor Record, Thursday, January 19, 1888... | |||
| J.L. Stanley Fishery J.L. Stanley & Sons Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Description: ....” – Bar Harbor Record, Thursday, January 19, 1888. "The ice dealers have nearly finished filling their ice houses... File Attachment: John Lenzey Stanley - Life and Business.pdf …Bar Harbor Record, Thursday, January 19, 1888. 1903 J.L. Stanley expects soon to begin work on the extension of his wharf. …The Bar Harbor Times, April 22, 1925. 1925 - At Spruce Hill, the new development lately opened by the J. L. …The Bar Harbor 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 Bar Harbor, Maine. Circa 1955 J.L. | ||
| Beal's Fish Wharf Fred Fernald Lobster Business B.R. Simmons Lobster Business H.R. Beal & Sons Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Beal's Fish Wharf Fred Fernald Lobster Business B.R. Simmons Lobster Business H.R. Beal & Sons Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Fred Fernald Lobster Business.pdf …Beal & Sons Address: 182 Clark Point Road City: Southwest Harbor State: Maine Map and Lot: Map 4: Lot 35 Map: ROB 1951 BEALS FISH WHARF Duration: At …Bowling Alley ME: SWH Clark Point Road Beal s Bowling 1922: "Islesford Waterfront News Two lobster smacks, Speedwell and Onaway, were in the harbor …The Bar Harbor Times, November 29, 1922. …Simmons who sold to Harvard Beal in 1937." - Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. | ||
| Bar Harbor Observes 150th Birthday Jesup Memorial Library |
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| 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. | ||
| Maps of Hancock County with Bar Harbor, Mount Desert Island, Bucksport, and Stonington, Maine Jesup Memorial Library |
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| The Great Harbor Collection at the Old Firehouse Museum Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  The Great Harbor Collection at the Old Firehouse Museum Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: Wendell Gilley Museum-uncompressed.pdf …s indoor art and nature adventure featuring: Bird Carvings by Wendell Gilley (1904-1983) the nationally renowned woodcarver and native of Southwest Harbor …Southwest Harbor Maine 1986 Town of Southwest Harbor 1986 Hours: June - December June.............................................T uesday-Sunday …Box 254 Southwest Harbor, Maine 04679 (207) 244-7555 | |||
| Wooden box and six quart bottles from Mt. Desert Island Dairy Great Harbor Maritime Museum |
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|  Wooden box and six quart bottles from Mt. Desert Island Dairy Great Harbor Maritime Museum Description: ...Desert Island Dairy, Bar Harbor, Maine" is written on the front. The ends are labeled 6 QT. Six glass quart bottles are stored inside the box... | ||||
| Lawlor Ice Business Benjamin M. Robinson Ice Pond Henry E. Tracy Ice Pond Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Lawlor Ice Business Benjamin M. Robinson Ice Pond Henry E. Tracy Ice Pond Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: In the 21st Century we may think of ice as something that comes out of the doors of our refrigerator or a nice skating surface in an indoor rink, but, in the 18th and early 19th centuries the ice business produced a very necessary product and employed many people. See: “Ice Harvesting Sampler” DVD, produced by Northeast Historic Film, Black & White, NTSC, 33 minutes - 1994. This “compilation of newsreel and amateur footage of ice harvesting operations in Maine includes ice-house interiors with massive ice blocks being maneuvered at high speed, and horse teams delivering ice to brownstones in Boston.” “America’s Icemen: An Illustrative History of the United States Natural Ice Industry 1665-1925” by Joseph C. Jones Jr., published by Jobeco Books, 1984. “The American Ice Harvests: A Historical Study in Technology, 1800-1918” by Richard O. Cummings, published by the University of Calfornia Press, 1949. [show more] File Attachment: Benjamin M. Robinson Ice Pond.pdf …near the center of the town on the road to McKinley, but efficient work on the part of the fire Department protected the surrounding property." - The Bar …Harbor; Dep. …Sheriff Lyle Reed of McKinley." - The Bar Harbor Times, Thursday, December 18, 1947. "C.W. …." - The Bar Harbor Times, Thursday, December 18, 1947. The town of Southwest Harbor acquired Chris's Pond on March 4, 1957 at the Town Meeting. |
