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Bar Harbor Express
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Bar Harbor Express
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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...The Bar Harbor Express was a seasonal passenger train serving Bar Harbor, Maine...From Mount Desert Ferry, steamers took passengers to Bar Harbor...." - "Bar Harbor" by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr., Postcard Series, Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, South Carolina, 2011, p. 20...The Bar Harbor Express was involved in a crash with the White Mountain Express on September 2, 1913 in New Haven, CT...
Bryant Bradley Studio, Bar Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Bar Harbor
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Bryant Bradley Studio, Bar Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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...The photography studio of Bryant Bradley in Bar Harbor. Bradley built a three-story office building on Main Street to house his business...


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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 BarHarbor 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
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Bar Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Bar Harbor
Northeast Harbor Library
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Bar Harbor
Northeast Harbor Library
Bar Harbor Casino
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Structures, Other Structures
  • Bar Harbor
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Bar Harbor Casino
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Bar Harbor Record
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Bar Harbor
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Bar Harbor Record
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Indian Villages - Bar Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Bar Harbor, Eden
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Indian Villages - Bar Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Indian Villages – Bar Harbor.pdf
…Places Sites Monuments History Indian Villages Bar Harbor Name: Indian Village What: Indigenous peoples summer encampments Bar HarborBar Harbor Location 2nd Address: Indian Village was in the "U" shaped piece of land between Ledgelawn Avenue, Park Street, and Main Street, Bar Harbor, …" " - Lost Bar Harbor by G.W. Helfrich and Gladys O Neil, p. 3 - 1982. …seem like bad marketing to residents of Bar Harbor who hoped to profit from the new, elegant Bar Harbor.
Bar Harbor Airport
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Bar Harbor Airport
Southwest Harbor Public Library
1947 Bar Harbor Fire
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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1947 Bar Harbor Fire
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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1947 Bar Harbor Fire.pdf
…the Bar Harbor, Maine Fire Department received a call from a Mrs. …Written by an historian who was on the scene for the 1947 Bar Harbor Fire. …Bar Harbor: A Town Almost Lost A Pictorial Essay of Bar Harbor s Mansions Before and After the Fire of 1947 by Deborah M. …Dyer, maps courtesy of Arthur Corliss, Bar Harbor Historical Society, Bar Harbor, Maine, 2008. Author: Charlotte R. Morrill Date: 2016
Bar Harbor Shore Path
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Places, Shore
  • Bar Harbor
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Bar Harbor Shore Path
Southwest Harbor Public Library
The Shore Path - Bar Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Bar Harbor
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The Shore Path - Bar Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Bar Harbor - Yarmouth Ferry Terminal
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Structures, Transportation, Terminal, Marine Terminal
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Bar Harbor - Yarmouth Ferry Terminal
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Harbor View Motel
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Harbor View Motel
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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..."Harbor View Motel, Southwest Harbor, Maine 04679, On ocean front - twelve modern, soundproof motel units - continental breakfasts in season - four housekeeping...“Soon Announcing… The Opening of New Harbor View Motel, Southwest Harbor” - Advertisement, Bar Harbor Times, April 22, 1954...
1922 Southwest Harbor Fire
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Southwest Harbor
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1922 Southwest Harbor Fire
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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...Main Street in Southwest Harbor was devastated by fire on March 27, 1922...Newspaper accounts of the fire reported estimated losses of $150,000 and that the Southwest Harbor Volunteer Fire Company, “did remarkable work, considering...Bar Harbor and Northeast Harbor firemen also responded, but the roads were considerably different from today and it took the Bar Harbor department, “four...“Had the roads been in anything like fair condition it is the unanimous opinion that the truck from Bar Harbor would have been able to save the Odd Fellows...
Native American Camp at Bar Harbor - "Indian Village" Second Location
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Bar Harbor
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Emery - Ernest E. Emery (1849-1933)
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Emery - Ernest E. Emery (1849-1933)
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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...Emery had photography studios in Bar Harbor and in Portland...


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Emery - Ernest E. Emery (1849-1933).pdf
…Emery (1849-1933) Father: Samuel Newell Emery (1815-1897) Mother: Eliza Ann Ladd (1858-1915) Birth Date: May 1, 1849 Born at: Salisbury Cove, Bar Harbor …- The Bar Harbor Record, April 17, 1890 Charles W. Hearn originally of Philadelphia? The "HEARN STUDIO," F. E. …The Bar Harbor Record, March 30, 1898. …Keene, December 19, 1918 Bar Harbor Times, December 28, 1918
The Dollar Social at Southwest Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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The Dollar Social at Southwest Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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...In 1892 the ladies of Southwest Harbor gathered together to raise money for land upon which to build a library building and then reported how they raised...their dollar..The Dollar Social was the first fundraising event held for the Southwest Harbor Public Library and the poem describing it was famous in...


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The Dollar Social at Southwest Harbor.pdf
…The Dollar Social At Southwest Harbor The Southwest Harbor Public library was founded in 1884. …Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 115. …"The Dollar Social At Southwest Harbor" describes how each woman earned her dollar. …Tracy, our Republican friend, took a bribe, I'm sorry to state, For her husband promised her a dollar if she would help him illuminate, So she sacrificed bar
Gott - Evelyn Rachel (Gott) Reed (1902-1970)
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Gott - Evelyn Rachel (Gott) Reed (1902-1970)
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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...Bertha died on January 8, 1970 in Bar Harbor, Maine. She is buried at Ledgelawn Cemetery in Bar Harbor...
Steamboat Wharf at Southwest Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf
  • Southwest Harbor
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Steamboat Wharf at Southwest Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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...“Summer tourists who enter Mount Desert by the way of South-west Harbor are liable to receive very unfavorable impressions of this beautiful island...By crossing the harbor to the Ocean House, the view of the mountains may indeed be regained, yet the prospect from the east side is tame.” - Rambles in...


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Steamboat Wharf at Southwest Harbor.pdf
…Business History Steamboat Wharf at Southwest Harbor Address: 184 Clark Point Road City: Southwest Harbor State: Maine Map and Lot: Map 4 Lot 35-1 …the night at Deacon Clark's and taking an all-day ride by team to Bar Harbor where a resident of that town gave them hospitable treatment for a few days …Desert in the early 1850s next to Steamboat Wharf in Southwest Harbor and then moved to what is now Bass Harbor in 1889. …when the summer tourists began to come to Mount Desert in great numbers and every boat in early summer brought crowds of passengers for Southwest and Bar
Moore - Isaac Thomas Moore (1872-1963)
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Moore - Isaac Thomas Moore (1872-1963)
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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...Isaac Thomas Moore worked as a photographer in Bar Harbor from at least 1893, and in Northeast Harbor from 1900 to 1940...


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Moore_-_Isaac_Thomas_Moore_1872-1963.pdf
…Moore - cottage on Harbourside Road, Northeast Harbor, Maine No. 48? …Joseph Norwood - Bar Harbor Record, October 18, 1899. 1910: MDI Register many advertisements 1912: Cottage Directory p. 15 advertisement 1919 …- Bar Harbor Times, May 14, 1919. 1920: Cottage Directory p. 76 advertisement 1923: Newspaper accounts speak of his studio as being open for the summers …Bar Harbor Times, November 6, 1936. Lakeland is half way between Tampa and Orlando. 1940: Isaac T.
Albert Wilson Bee's Stationery Store and Shop
A.W. Bee, Stationers
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Bar Harbor
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Albert Wilson Bee's Stationery Store and Shop
A.W. Bee, Stationers
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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...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...


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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.
Southwest Harbor High School
Freeman Grammar School
Harbor House
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Southwest Harbor
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Southwest Harbor High School
Freeman Grammar School
Harbor House
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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SWH High School - Freeman Grammar School.pdf
…School History Freeman Grammar School Southwest Harbor High School Harbor House Address: 329 Main Street City: Southwest Harbor State: Maine Map and Lot …Stanley" "In 1906 the Southwest Harbor schoolhouse was sold to George Harmon of Bar Harbor who bought the adjoining lot to the south, moved the building …When the high school at Southwest Harbor, later the Harbor House building, was first constructed it was smaller than it appears today. …Harbor school building.
Newman - Jarvis Ward Newman (1935-2019)
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Newman - Jarvis Ward Newman (1935-2019)
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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...Died September 1, 2019 in Bar Harbor at age 84...
Cromwell Harbor Road
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Bar Harbor, Eden
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Cromwell Harbor Road
Southwest Harbor Public Library
George A. Neal House
James Lawton House
Danforth Marcyes House
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Southwest Harbor
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George A. Neal House
James Lawton House
Danforth Marcyes House
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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...In 2017 this was the site of the Bar Harbor Bank and Trust Building...


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Danforth Marcyes House.pdf
…George Arthur Neal House Address: 314 Main Street City: Southwest Harbor State: Maine Map: Map 6 Lot 45 First Owner: Marcyes - Danforth Pond Marcyes …He was in charge of the Custom House here for a long time, moving to Bar Harbor when his duties there were over. His son-in-law, James J. …Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 147 - 1938.