1 - 12 of 12 results
You searched for: 'bar harbor'Date: 1870sPlace: [blank]
Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Petition to bring water to Bar Harbor
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Request, Petition
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Water
  • 1875
Petition to bring water to Bar Harbor
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
...Roberts; says they will pay expense incurred in making survey of route, take stock in a company to be formed to bring water into the village of Bar Harbor...
Loring Short & Harmon illustrated guide book for Mount Desert Island, Me.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Tourism
  • Martin, Mrs. Clara Barnes
  • 1877
Description:
...Bar Harbor, Somesville, Southwest Harbor, topography, history...
Informal Deed to Sarah and Fountain Roddick
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Legal, Deed
  • Other, Deed
  • Apr 25, 1873
Informal Deed to Sarah and Fountain Roddick
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
...Deed Edwin Leesile conveyed to Sarah Roddick and Fountain Rodick land in Eden Bar Harbor, land that has a mortgage of $1,000 and David Roddick will take...
George Gibson McMurtry
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
  • Reference
  • People
  • 1876
George Gibson McMurtry
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
Description:
...He was a member of Bar Harbor Club, Pot & Kettle Club. Tombstone in Ledgelawn Cemetery...
Guide book for Mount Desert
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Guidebook
  • Places, Island
  • Clara Barnes Martin
  • 1879
Guide book for Mount Desert
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Loring, Short & Harmon's illustrated guide book for Mount Desert Island (before Acadia National Park). With 5 mounted photographs. Fourth edition (1879). Sixth edition (1885).


File Attachment:
SCB 917 MAR.pdf
…The road from Bar Harbor to Ottef Creek runs through it. …Beneath my window, the harbor-bar lay moaning. …I [ I EXCURSIONS FROM BAR HARBOR. I I I I I I ' ! …From the height of the Island the village of Bar Harbor shows to the best advantage.
The Coit Excursion
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • People
  • 1870
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
The Coit Excursion
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
An account of the third “Coit Family” steamer excursion from Worcester, Massachusetts, this third trip does not seem to have involved the family though known by their name as they had started the excursions in earlier years. Descriptions of stops made by the steamer were written by various authors.


File Attachment:
Coit_Excursion_1870.pdf
…His description of his visit to Bar Harbor is clear and his style delightful. American House, Belfast, Me., August 4, 1870. …South West Harbor is in Tremont. Bar Harbor, our stopping place, and the favorite resort, is in Eden. …Bar Harbor takes its name from a sand-bar at its head, across which the high tide swells, but along which at low water one may walk or drive to Bar Island …The cosy harbor is protected by forbidding names.
Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Book
  • Places
  • Drake - Samuel Adams Drake
  • 1875
  • No Known Copyright
Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast
Southwest Harbor Public Library
File Attachment:
Drake - Nooks and Corners of the NE Coast.pdf
…At Somesville there is a comfortable hostel , but the larger summer hotels are at Bar Harbor and at South- west Harbor. …Soon after passing the bridge, that to Bar Harbor diverged to the left. …The roads from Bar Harbor and from North -east Harbor unite within a short distance of Somesville, and enter the village together. …Some handsome cottages have already sprung out of the prevailing ugli ness at Bar Harbor.
Mount Desert Island, and the Cranberry Isles.
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Book
  • People
  • Places, Island
  • Dodge - Ezra Herrick Dodge III (1848-1882)
  • 1871
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Mount Desert Island, and the Cranberry Isles.
Southwest Harbor Public Library
File Attachment:
DODGE_-_SAWYERS_-_MT._DESERT_ISLAND_-_1871_B.pdf
…Salsbury; Bar Harbor, l\[i-;s Reynold;;. The Steamer Lewiston, Ca11t. …Reynold.-; , Bar Harbor, East Eden. Teachers. Gideon 1\fa, o, Edgar W. iiiggins. …Desert) for Bar Harbor and South West Harbor. Freight Taken at Reasonable Rates. …SAUVEUR, , I BAR HARBOR, - - - - - - EAST EDEN. 1t1aine.
Old Farmer’s Almanac
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Almanac
  • Other, Agriculture
  • Other, History - Bar Harbor
  • 1875
Old Farmer’s Almanac
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Old Farmer’s Almanac 1875 tied together with string, no cover, begins on page 1 with illustration Previously archived as object Id 013.FIC.31.08
Stamped folded letter sent from Eden post office, 1870
Tremont Historical Society
  • Object, Stamp, Postage Stamp
  • Other, Bar Harbor, Hancock County, Maine
  • Other, East Eden, Hancock County, Maine
  • Other, Eden, Hancock County, Maine
  • Other, Post Offices
  • Other, Stamps
  • 1870
Description:
Stamped folded letter sent from Eden post office, 1870
Pre-stamped envelope sent from Salsbury Cove, c.1875
Tremont Historical Society
  • Object, Writing, Envelope
  • Other, Bar Harbor, Hancock County, Maine
  • Other, East Eden, Hancock County, Maine
  • Other, Post Offices
  • Other, Salsbury Cove, Hancock County, Maine
  • Other, Stamps
  • c.1875
Description:
Pre-stamped envelope sent from Salsbury Cove, c.1875
Maine: Her place in history
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Book
  • Organizations
  • Places
  • 1877
Maine: Her place in history
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Address delivered at the Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, November 4, 1876 and in convention of the Legislature of Maine, February 6, 1877, by Joshua L. Chamberlain; with a communication from the governor and the Report of the Centennial Commission. Published by order of the Legislature of Maine of February 7, 1877. (Scanned copy in part from archive.org)


File Attachment:
SCB 974.1 CH.pdf
…The beautiful niap of Vinland has Krossaness at Gurnet Point, the entrance to I'lymouth harbor. 3 Maixe 18 Her Place : in History. …\jd<. rations, and the locality of his ^ Pentecost Harbor." h;ivr al-o Imm-u -ubjeots of investigation. …barred by their that own maxim, Prescription without possession title." …To harbor these insidious foes, would be Intolerance was her only defence. stultitication and suicide.