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| A Memorial Walk - Bar Harbor to Sieur de Monts Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  A Memorial Walk - Bar Harbor to Sieur de Monts Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2012-06-24 A Memorial Walk - Bar Harbor to Sieur de Monts.pdf …The walk starts at the 1906 horse trough/fountain at the southeast corner of Bar Harbor's village green. …You'll pass three churches: the Congregational Church, since rebuilt, was the first church in Bar Harbor; St. …You are now heading back to Bar Harbor. Behind the Nature Center is a memorial to George Dorr. …Harbor you might wish to get Betty Massie's SelfGuided Walking Tour of Historic Bar Harbor. | |
| Sign from A.W. Bee, Stationer, Bar Harbor Store Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Sign from A.W. Bee, Stationer, Bar Harbor Store Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| Albert Wilson Bee's Bar Harbor Store Building in 2012. Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Albert Wilson Bee's Bar Harbor Store Building in 2012. Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The Original A.W. Bee Stationery Store Building Map 104 – Lot 509 |
| Acadia National Park's Other Bar Island Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Acadia National Park's Other Bar Island Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2013-01-10 Acadia National Park's Other Bar Island.pdf …entrance to Somes Harbor and off Squantum Point is Bar Island. …Courtesy: Northeast Harbor Library Courtesy: Northeast Harbor Library An 1887 map shows Bar Island and depicts the locations of the log cabin, a well …Mapmakers have consistently labeled the island as Bar Island; yet, it was often locally referred to as Pryor's Island. 2 Bar Harbor Times, 6/13/1934; p …. 8. 3 Bar Harbor Times, 8/26/1925; p. 12. 4 Memorial GPS coordinates: N44 21.390' W068 19.427' | |
| Southwest Harbor Then & Now 2015 Exhibit Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Southwest Harbor Then & Now 2015 Exhibit Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...The July 2015 Show at the Southwest Harbor Public Library presented a visual stroll down Main Street and Clark Point Road composed of photographs from... File Attachment: THEN AND NOW SHOW 2015 - BROCHURE.pdf …Neal is just visible driving his horse and buggy out of the barn drive across the wood plank sidewalk on to Main Street. 05 B The Bar Harbor Bank and …See the Bar Harbor Times, April 20, 1927, p. 7. 9 21 B The First Masonic Hall - The Clark Point Road from Main Street - Circa 1909-1910 353 Main Street …Public Library Collection of Photographs 23 A Moore's Garage Co. and Bar Harbor Banking & Trust Co. on Clark Point Road - Circa 1919-1933 19 Clark Point …Photographer unknown Number 5823 - The Southwest Harbor Public Library Collection of Photographs The Bar Harbor Bank and Trust Company is housed in the | ||
| Site of the George Arthur Neal House - Bar Harbor Bank and Trust Company Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Site of the George Arthur Neal House - Bar Harbor Bank and Trust Company Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| The Kellams Rowed Their Dory, Tracing An Island Story Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Kellams Rowed Their Dory, Tracing An Island Story Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...The Bar Harbor Times, February 2, 2011... File Attachment: Kellam_-_Kellam_Dory_-_02-02-11.pdf …From Bernard boat builder Clifton Rich, they bought the dory that would serve as their vehicle for the runs they made to Bass Harbor to pick up supplies …The dory will be an outdoor display at the society s Country Store Museum in Bass Harbor, said the society s president Muriel Davisson. …Nan would later use the analogy of two black bears converging on the same hollow tree that harbored a honeycomb. …The Bar Harbor Times, February 2, 2011. | |
| The Seal Harbor Shore Path Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Seal Harbor Shore Path Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2015-08-14 The Seal Harbor Shore Path.pdf …Anne Funderburk, a Seal Harbor resident and historian, recollects "The Seal Harbor Shore Path was built and maintained by Cooksey Realty (later Seal Harbor …Photo acknowledgements: * Seal Harbor Library ** Southwest Harbor Public Library - W. H. …Bar Harbor Record. …Desert Island Maine, published by the Village Improvement Societies of Bar Harbor, Seal Harbor, Northeast [Harbor], and Southwest Harbor. 1915. 4 Walks | |
| Bar Harbor and the Porcupine Islands from the Pulpit Rock Trail, Acadia National Park Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Bar Harbor and the Porcupine Islands from the Pulpit Rock Trail, Acadia National Park Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: This photo was taken from almost the same spot as a photo by W.H Ballard in October 1935. See Item 11895 for the Ballard photo. The cruise ship in the distance is the "MS Maasdam," a Holland America cruise ship built in 1993 by Italy’s Fincantieri Shipyards. She was named for a dam located on the Maas River in the Netherlands. “Maasdam” is an S class 10 deck cruise ship, 721.78’ long, 101.50 beam, 131.23’ high with a 24.93’ draught. She carries a crew of 580 and 1,258 passengers at a speed of 22 knots. [show more] |
| Bar Harbor and the Porcupine Islands from the Pulpit Rock Trail, Acadia National Park Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Bar Harbor and the Porcupine Islands from the Pulpit Rock Trail, Acadia National Park Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: I was inspired to take this photograph by Ballard's image (item 11895) of this same scene. -- George Soules |
| The Callendar House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Callendar House Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...The Callendar House was the first summer cottage built of brick in Bar Harbor...The history of Bar Harbor is the history of the rich and famous and the story of the Callendar House fits right into this history...Savage, himself, was a native of Northeast Harbor and the vast majority of his work consisted of cottages and hotels, showing the rise of Bar Harbor’s...At the time of its construction it was praised by the Bar Harbor Record for both its refinement and its modernity... | |
| The Satterlee Tea House Site at Great Head Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Satterlee Tea House Site at Great Head Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...The Tea House was destroyed in the 1947 Bar Harbor Fire. Eleanor Morgan Satterlee gave the property to Acadia National Park in 1949... |
| Klotz - Avon Roberts Klotz (1914-1985) Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Klotz - Avon Roberts Klotz (1914-1985) Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...He was stationed in Washington DC, where he met my mother, Josephine Mary Kane who was born and raised in Bar Harbor, Maine...Dad and Mom married in Washington DC and shortly afterwards moved back to Bar Harbor...When we drove into Bar Harbor on Rt 3 in those days there was a clear view of the bridge to the right... | |
| Ralph Warren Stanley as an 18th Century Dancing Master Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Ralph Warren Stanley as an 18th Century Dancing Master Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...The photographs were taken in an old barn near Kennebec Place in Bar Harbor... |
| 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... | ||
| Waldron Bates Memorial on Gorham Mountain Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Waldron Bates Memorial on Gorham Mountain Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...This bronze plaque, attached to a granite wall, was designed by New York sculptor and Bar Harbor summer resident William Ordway Partridge... | |
| Gott's Store Celebrates 75 Years Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Gott's Store Celebrates 75 Years Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Newspaper article about Gott's Store in Southwest Harbor, Maine on its 75 year aniversary... File Attachment: Gott’s Store celebrates 75 years - Mount Desert Islander.pdf …Hammond lumber Company Bar Harbor Blue Hill Bucksport Ellsworth It was just another day at the family-owned island institution opened by …There were residents of Bass Harbor, but they chose to open the store in Southwest Harbor. …The reason it s here , rather than in Bass Harbor was because Bass Harbor was a dry town , they couldn t sell beer, said Gott. …Mom walked over here , we lived in Bass Harbor, probably two miles away. |
| Northeast Harbor's Schoolhouse Ledge - a Place for a Peaceful Hike Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Northeast Harbor's Schoolhouse Ledge - a Place for a Peaceful Hike Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2012-09-05 Northeast Harbor's Schoolhouse Ledge - a Place for a Peaceful Hike.pdf …We d n e s d a y, S e p t e m b e r 5 , 2 0 1 2 2012 Don Lenahan Northeast Harbor's Schoolhouse Ledge - a Place for a Peaceful Hike Northeast Harbor …downtown on the south and the Northeast Harbor Golf Course on the west. …The "Northeast Harbor Trail Map" is in the form of an attractive brochure available at a number of village venues, including the Northeast Harbor Library …Published by The Village Improvement Societies of Bar Harbor, Seal Harbor, Northeast [sic], and Southwest Harbor. 1915. 3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ | |
| The Gurnee Path - Built, Endowed and Abandoned Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Gurnee Path - Built, Endowed and Abandoned Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2015-09-08 The Gurnee Path -- Built, Endowed and Abandoned.pdf …In its August notes of that year the Bar Harbor VIA stated the following: Mr. …He was among the original incorporators of the Bar Harbor VIA. …in scholarship, $10,000 to the Bar Harbor YMCA, and $5,000 to the Bar Harbor VIA to maintain the How memorial on a triangular lot he deeded to the VIA …Grandgent, 1928, p.79. 3 Bar Harbor Times, July 3, 1941, p.4. 4 North entrance/pull-off GPS coordinates: N44 24.530' W068 14.478' 5 Bar Harbor Record | |
| The Pulpits of Acadia Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Pulpits of Acadia Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2013-07-11 The Pulpits of Acadia.pdf …The earliest rock formation to be called Pulpit Rock appears to have been the one in Bar Harbor. It was noted in 1869 by Benjamin F. De Costa. …Harbor ca.1915 Pulpit Rock - Bar Harbor today Mountains.*3 That same year a newspaper article describing the Cadillac Mountain path system stated, " …Bates, Rand and Jaques. 1896. 4 Bar Harbor Record. …Revised and published by William Jay Turner. 1941. 9 Bar Harbor Times. September 15, 1960, p. 1. | |
| Waldron Bates - The Pathmaker Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Waldron Bates - The Pathmaker Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2012-04-04_Waldron_Bates_-_Pathmaker.pdf ….*1 It is a memorial to Waldron Bates, designed by New York sculptor and Bar Harbor summer resident, William Ordway Partridge. …How, an early developer of Bar Harbor. Bates graduated from Harvard in 1879 and received his law degree from Boston University in 1882. …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 will he left $5,000 to the Bar Harbor VIA for it to use the income to repair the "mountain paths of the island of Mount Desert." | |
| Acadia National Park's Forsaken Lakes Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Acadia National Park's Forsaken Lakes Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2014-05-18 Acadia National Park's Forsaken Lakes.pdf …They are walkable at low water level and are similar to the stepping stones along the west side of The Tarn, south of Bar Harbor. …The 4-acre pond was owned by Charles How, a Bostonian who came to Bar Harbor in 1870. …How of the Fawn Pond and forty acres of land to the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association 1906. …*Footnotes: 1 Bar Harbor Record, December 1, 1892, p.4. 2 Bar Harbor Record September 21, 1898, p.5. 3 Bar Harbor Times, March 28, 1934, p.7. 4 I am thankful | |
| Edith Bowdoin and Her Horse Troughs Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Edith Bowdoin and Her Horse Troughs Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2013-09-08 Edith Bowdoin and Her Horse Troughs.pdf ….*1 South of Bar Harbor's Main Street, at the corner of Route 3 and Schooner Head Road, is what was once a horse trough (GPS: N44 22.298' W068 11.809 …Now, compliments of the Town of Bar Harbor via the A. C. Parsons Landscaping and Garden Center, it is a beautiful floral planter. …During summers they resided in Bar Harbor at "La Rochelle" on West Street. Her father built the stately brick home in 1902. …Upon his death in 1913, Edith inherited all of his property in Bar Harbor. | |
| The Emery Path - Another Historic Gem in Acadia National Park Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Emery Path - Another Historic Gem in Acadia National Park Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2013-12-09 The Emery Path -- Another Historic Gem in Acadia NP.pdf …John continued his involvement in Bar Harbor, where he was a member of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association's Roads and Paths committee under …The construction of The Turrets wasn't Emery's first time in Bar Harbor. …He was there at least by 1881, when he stayed at theRodick House hotel, and continued to visit Bar Harbor thereafter. …Bar Harbor Mount Desert Herald, July 17, 1881, p.2. 3 The Turrets is now a campus administrative building of the College of the Atlantic. 4 Bar Harbor | |
| The Cross on Flying Mountain, Acadia National Park - a Mystery Unraveled Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Cross on Flying Mountain, Acadia National Park - a Mystery Unraveled Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2014-10-22 The Cross on Flying Mountain, Acadia National Park -- a Mystery Unraveled.pdf …Eyebolts Cut rod and brace What these iron relics are is revealed in a 1924 Bar Harbor Times photograph, which shows a cross on top of Flying Mountain …"*2 Bar Harbor Times The wooden cross was designed for Aimee (Rotch) Sargent, wife of Winthrop Sargent, summer residents of Northeast Harbor, by the …Saviour Episcopal Church in Bar Harbor and other structures on Mount Desert Island. …*Footnotes: 1 Bar Harbor Times, March 19, 1924, p. 3. 2 Eliot retired as president of Harvard in 1909, a position he had held for 40 years. |