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| W.H. Davis, Bar Harbor Buckboard Builder Advertisement Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  W.H. Davis, Bar Harbor Buckboard Builder Advertisement Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: .... - All sizes of Bar Harbor Buckboards…Carriage Repairing and Painting of every Description - W.H...Davis, Bar Harbor Buckboard Builder" - An advertisement appearing in A Guide to Bar Harbor published by W.H. Sherman, p. 104 - 1897... |
| Maine Central Railroad Advertisement Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Maine Central Railroad Advertisement Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Advertisement appearing in "A Guide to Bar Harbor" published by W.H. Sherman... | ||
| Steamer Cimbia in an Advertisement for The Bangor and Bar Harbor Line Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Steamer Cimbia in an Advertisement for The Bangor and Bar Harbor Line Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ..."THE BANGOR AND BAR HARBOR LINE - BANGOR AND BAR HARBOR SB'T CO., STEAMERS: CIMBIA, SEDGWICK, TREMONT - Only line of steamers running between Bar Harbor...Landings made at Seal Harbor, N. E. Harbor, S.W. Harbor, Sedgwick, Deer Isle, Isleboro, Castine, Fort Point and all landings on Penobscot River.... - SCENERY UNSURPASSED - Steamers leave Bar Harbor Daily, except Sunday, at 7 a.m., arriving at Bangor at 5 p.m. Excellent meals served on board...Pullen, Gen'l Ticket Agt. - Office: Bangor, Me." - The advertisement appeared in A Guide to Bar Harbor published by W.H. Sherman, p. 85 - 1897... | |
| Digital Archive posters created by COA students Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Digital Archive posters created by COA students Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...In 2019 graphic arts students at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor created these posters to promote the Digital Archive... | ||
| Obituary for Jarvis W. Newman Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Obituary for Jarvis W. Newman Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Jarvis W.pdf …Newman September 4, 2019 SOUTHWEST HARBOR Jarvis Ward Newman, 84, died peacefully Sept. 1, 2019, at Birch Bay Village in Bar …Harbor. …Jarvis served on the board of directors of Bar Harbor Banking & Trust for 30 years. He was a Vestry member of St. …In 2016, when Jarvis suffered physical problems along with his dementia, he moved to Birch Bay Village in Bar Harbor. | ||
| Jesse Newell Mills Obituary Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Jesse Newell Mills Obituary Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Mills - J.N. Mills Co - Obituaries.pdf …Mills Obituary The Bar Harbor Times September 1972 Jess N. Mills, 79, died Sept. 4 at his home after a brief illness. …Mills of Southwest Harbor; five grandchildren. …A volunteer fireman, he told exciting stories of fighting the Great Bar Harbor Fire of 1947. …Interment will be at Head of the Harbor Cemetery, Bass Harbor. | ||
| Grindle - Ralph Merrill Grindle - Obituary Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Grindle - Ralph Merrill Grindle - Obituary Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Grindle - Ralph Merrill Grindle - Obit.pdf …He was a boat builder and co-owner of Rich and Grindle Boat Company in Southwest Harbor. He served in the U.S. …He was proprietor of Grindle s Store in Southwest Harbor for more than 45 years. …; and two daughters, RuthAnn Fenton and her husband, Nathaniel, of Bar Harbor; and Linda Ann Dow and her husband, George, of Southwest Harbor; 10 grandchildren …, Jeffrey Rich of Bass Harbor, and Paul Grindle of Southwest Harbor; 18 great-grandchildren; and a very special friend, Mary Grindle. | ||
| First Day Cover of Acadia National Park with Great Head Stamp - October 2, 1934 Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  First Day Cover of Acadia National Park with Great Head Stamp - October 2, 1934 Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...First Day Cover for launching of Great Head Stamp – features the Lone Pine on Robinson Mountain and the Great Head Stamp Mailed from Bar Harbor on launch... | ||
| Correspondence with Howe D. Higgins as Customs Officer Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Correspondence with Howe D. Higgins as Customs Officer Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: This collection contains letters sent to and from Howe D. Higgins between 1921 and 1933 pertaining to information about prohibition and rum runners on Mount Desert Island. These letters have been indexed with their dates and the vessels or people they reference. File Attachments: Correspondence with Howe D. Higgins.pdf …Higgins (1894-1974) HDH 001 7/18/1921 Sheldrake A-5709 Information about owner of vessel and cargo at Bar Harbor HDH 002 7/27/1921 Winfield Strout | |||
| W.H. Davis Bill of Sale to Augustus Clark for a Buckboard Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  W.H. Davis Bill of Sale to Augustus Clark for a Buckboard Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| A Talk About the Southwest Harbor Public Library (1905-2005) Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  A Talk About the Southwest Harbor Public Library (1905-2005) Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...This is a transcription of a talk given by Meredith Hutchins as a Southwest Harbor Public Library evening program in 2005... File Attachment: The Southwest Harbor Public Library – 1905-2005 - MH.pdf …The Southwest Harbor Public Library 1905-2005 by Meredith Hutchins A talk given as a Southwest Harbor Public Library evening program in 2005. …According to the Bar Harbor Record of Wednesday, Nov. 6, 1895 A large number of people from all parts of the town of Tremont gathered at Southwest Harbor …To return to the library dedication, after the presentation of the keys, the Bar Harbor Record says that the greater part of the assembly went to Tremont …She would leave in mid-May to operate her Mount Desert Bookstore in Bar Harbor, while a summer librarian filled in. | |||
| Pathmaker -- The Tragic Death of Waldron Bates Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Pathmaker -- The Tragic Death of Waldron Bates Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2014-09-29 Pathmaker -- The Tragic Death of Waldron Bates.pdf …After being exhibited in Bar Harbor, it was placed there in September 1910. …How, an early developer of Bar Harbor and land donor. …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 September 1909 report to the Bar Harbor VIA, Path Committee chairman Dr. | |
| Cadillac, Kinney and Fish Sticks Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Cadillac, Kinney and Fish Sticks Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2015-07-12 Cadillac, Kinney and Fish Sticks.pdf …He went on to attend Harvard University, but left for Bar Harbor, ME to pursue an intriguing interest. E. …Kinney became a resident of downtown Bar Harbor in the 1940s about the time he started the North Atlantic Packing Co. there. …Later he resided in Hulls Cove, a Bar Harbor village. A keen businessman, Kinney was also a philanthropist and corporate advisor. …research institution in Bar Harbor; a trustee of the Maine Sea Coast Mission in Bar Harbor, an organization that provides spiritual, health and youth | |
| Rudolph Brunnow and the Myths about Him Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Rudolph Brunnow and the Myths about Him Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2015-06-09 Rudolph Brunnow and the Myths about Him.pdf …Meadow Brook A Bar Harbor newspaper's obituary of Brunnow is the apparent origin of the fianc myth and the German-by-birth claim. …Brunnow died of pneumonia in Bar Harbor on April 14, 1917. His children went to live with his mother-in-law, Margaretta F. …It serves no good purpose to perpetuate these myths. * Footnotes: 1 Bar Harbor Record, April 9, 1913, p.5. 2 Bar Harbor Times, April 21, 1917, p.1. 3 Bar …Harbor Times, April 28, 1917, p.3. 4 Bar Harbor Record, November 4, 1916, p.1. | |
| Great Head, Sand Beach and J. P. Morgan Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Great Head, Sand Beach and J. P. Morgan Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2013-02-05 Great Head, Sand Beach and J. P. Morgan.pdf …Morgan did vacation in Maine in 1875, when he and Fanny visited Bar Harbor and stayed at the newly extended Rodick hotel, then Bar Harbor's largest. …He enjoyed steaming from New York to Bar Harbor aboard his yacht, Corsair, and would take her around to Northeast Harbor to attend church services and …In 1897, as the 16th commodore of the New York Yacht Club, Morgan organized the first-ever cup event from NYC to Bar Harbor. …Bar Harbor, ME: Acadia Publishing Co., 1997. 3 The History of the New York Yacht Club, (pub. by the NYYC). 1975. 4 Bar Harbor Record, August 11, 1897. | |
| Howe D. Higgins' Reports of Seizures and Related Documents Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Howe D. Higgins' Reports of Seizures and Related Documents Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: This collection of documents contains Howe D. Higgins' reports of seizures as collector of customs, as well as the related documents for those seizures, including search warrants and documents containing information about liquor smuggling. File Attachments: Reports of Seizure and Related Documents.pdf …Jellison Apartment over Franklin s Dry Goods Store in Bar Harbor HDH 080 10/15/1923 Duplicates of HDH 079 HDH 081 10/31/1923 11/1/1923 Mr. and Mrs …John Burns HDH 082 11/27/1923 Bar Harbor Banking and Trust HDH 083 11/27/1923 Bar Harbor Banking and Trust HDH 084 11/27/1923 Mrs. …Joseph Pulitzer Bar Harbor Banking and Trust HDH 085 11/27/1923 Bar Harbor Banking and Trust HDH 086 11/27/1923 Bar Harbor Banking and Trust HDH 087 …Malvern Hotel HDH 100 7/12/1924 7/19/1924 Mary Coles Bar Harbor Banking and Trust HDH 101 9/3/1924 American Express Company L. | |||
| J. J. OBrien and His Jesuit Settlement Memorial Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  J. J. OBrien and His Jesuit Settlement Memorial Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2012-09-27 J. J. OBrien and His Jesuit Settlement Memorial.pdf …In 1925, while a Palm Beach resident, O'Brien purchased "Guy's Cliff," a 6-acre waterfront estate in Bar Harbor that today is the site of the College of …He and Louise, who died in Bar Harbor 11 years earlier, are buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Detroit, MI. J. J. …*Footnotes: 1 Bar Harbor Times, 7/24/1952; p. 1. 2 Memorial GPS coordinates: N44 17.643' W068 17.619' 3 George's father, Dr. …Phineas Horwitz, a surgeon general of the United States Navy, summered in Bar Harbor from 1879 until his death there in 1904. 4 The O'Briens named the | |
| John D. Rockefeller, Jr’s Memorial Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  John D. Rockefeller, Jr’s Memorial Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2017-01-28 John D. Rockefeller, Jr’s Memorial.pdf …Locally, he gave Seal Harbor the land for its village green, after buying the old Glencove Hotel and having it torn down in 1919. …In 1948 he gave 30 acres to the Jackson Memorial Laboratory in Bar Harbor after the widely devastating 1947 fire had destroyed the facility. …They came to Mount Desert Island in 1908 and rented a Bar Harbor cottage called The Briars on the Shore Path off Wayman Lane. …In 1909 he and his family became summer residents of Seal Harbor and the next year purchased The Eyrie, a 150-acre estate. | |
| Rebecca's Dolls Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Rebecca's Dolls Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Carroll family mythology says that Rebecca Carroll made sixteen dolls for her grandchildren – one for each grandchild born while she was alive. Researchers have found evidence of three of the dolls and are looking for the others. File Attachment: Carroll - Rebeccas Dolls.pdf …There is also a footnote on p. 73 concerning the exact pages used for the cutout. - The Carroll Family Mountain House, Southwest Harbor, Maine, 1825 …Stanley Virginia Eaton Young (1905-1986) was born to Fred Eaton and Alice (Carroll) Young on July 22, 1905 in Southwest Harbor, Maine. …Wilbur (1901-1985) on September 10, 1937 in Southwest Harbor. Virginia Eaton (Young) Wilbur died on June 23, 1986 in Southwest Harbor, Maine. …Evelyn (Kittredge) Jordan died on August 7, 1983 in Bar Harbor, Maine. | |||
| Interview of Henry and Elizabeth Guthrie Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Interview of Henry and Elizabeth Guthrie Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...She also talks about taking the "Bar Harbor Express," a train from Washington D.C. up to a ferry which would complete the journey to Bar Harbor...The Guthries were always just summer people, but felt that they belonged in Southwest Harbor and were very complimentary of the people they met in town... | |
| Interview of Ruth Grindle Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Interview of Ruth Grindle Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Esther Rodick interviews Ruth Grindle who talks about her life in Southwest Harbor...Neither of her parents were originally from the area, but her father moved to Bar Harbor to work in a jewelry story before moving to Southwest Harbor to...Finally, she tells of how she finagled her way into meeting FDR when he visited Southwest Harbor... | |
| Interview of Athol Higgins Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Interview of Athol Higgins Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Before World War One, he worked in the Post Office in Bar Harbor and saw the switch from horses to automobiles...After World War One, he worked in the customs office in Southwest Harbor for twelve years...Athol talks about walking out to "the small island in the middle of the harbor" for picnics, and having to be careful of the tide... | |
| Interview of Andrew Herrick Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Interview of Andrew Herrick Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...The first Herrick to stay was Isaac who ran a tide mill in Southwest Harbor. Andrew grew up in the house that Isaac built...Andrew drove a truck for a gas company, living in Bar Harbor and Ellsworth but was forced to stop that work in 1952 following a shoulder injury...He has many stories from his time in Southwest Harbor; the first car in the town, Beech Mountain priginally being called Herrick Mountain, finding bootleg...stories about Billy Tot, a man who worked as a cabin boy for Captain Norwood and eventually lived a primitive life on the edges of society near Southwest Harbor... | |
| Mount Desert Congregational Church of Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Union Church Southwest Harbor Congregational Church Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Mount Desert Congregational Church of Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Union Church Southwest Harbor Congregational Church Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Historic Building/Structure Survey #405-0836 File Attachment: MHPC 405-0836.pdf …In the meantime please note that the Southwest Harbor Architectural Survey Index and the Southwest Harbor Public Library Collection of Photographs Database …Narrative Description The Mount Desert Congregational Church of Southwest Harbor, commonly known as the Southwest Harbor Congregational Church, is a rectangular …Clark died on September 19, 1902 at Southwest Harbor, Maine. …Bar Harbor, Maine: Acadia Publishing, 1988. Reprint edition by Southwest Harbor Public Library of original, 1938, edition. Pages :5-57, 159,162. 10. |
| Southwest Harbor Elementary School Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Southwest Harbor Elementary School Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Historic Building/Structure Survey #405-0080 File Attachment: MHPC 405-0080.pdf …Southwest Harbor separated from Tremont in 1905. …Conveyance of property from Southwest Harbor School District to Town of Southwest Harbor. Marshall, Jean. …"Southwest Harbor School-Pemetic and Harbor House." MS summarizing deed searches. Southwest Harbor Town Office. Thornton, Mrs. Seth S. …[Nell Carroll Thornton) Traditions and Records of [Southwest] Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine. Bar Harbor: Acadia Publishing, 1988. |