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]
Description: ...Newspaper supplement published by the BarHarbor Times covering sightseeing and activities on and around Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park...
Description: ...From 2012 to 2017, Don Lenahan of BarHarbor, Maine wrote blog posts about the people, geography, and history of Acadia National Park...
Description: ...Folder 9 BarHarbor and Acadia National Park Maine: A scenic wonderland of ocean, lakes and mountains, 1930?, 14, [1] pages: illustrations, maps...Folder 52 Brochure "Visit BarHarbor - Acadia National Park", 1952...
File Attachment: Precipice Trail - T.pdf …Funded by: BarHarbor Village Improvement Association and Rudolph Brunnow Rudolph Ernest Brunnow (1858-1917) Chairman of the Path Committee 1912-1917 He …"He died in the spring of 1917, leaving behind some of the most challenging, controversial, and highly crafted trails in the BarHarbor System " …BarHarbor Times, November 21, 1914, p. 1.
File Attachment: Eagle Lake.pdf …water is in some places over ten fathoms deep, and so sweet and pure that it furnishes a very satisfactory water supply to the cottages and hotels of Bar …Harbor. …During the summer season, several times each day, four horse barges run from BarHarbor to Eagle Lake, a distance of 2 miles, through the forest, and …It is a quaint little stern wheel craft, formerly used on the Merrimac at Newburyport, and hauled up from BarHarbor to Eagle Lake by a hundred oxen and
Description: Echo Lake is located on the western side of Mount Desert Island. The lake is a popular swimming area and is surrounded by hiking trails on the nearby mountains.
File Attachment: Echo Lake.pdf …activities on Mount Desert Island that was considered an essential experience by early rusticators taking a buckboard ride between Somesville and Southwest Harbor …"The road to Somesville runs northward from [Southwest] harbor, and in about a mile form the Island House reaches the divergence of the Seal-Cove road. …the silvery waters of Somes Sound come into view, beyond the rugged rocks of Robinson Mountain; and the hotel on Green Mountain shows the direction of Bar …Harbor.
Description: Great Head is located near Sand Beach in Acadia National Park. The area was owned in the early 1900s by the Satterlee family and they built an observatory and a tea house on the point. The ruins of the structure remain. J.P. Morgan had purchased 110 acres on the Maine coast at Mount Desert including Great Head, now given to Acadia National Park, as a gift for his daughter, Louisa. She and her husband Herbert Satterlee had built their country home there and enjoyed it for many years. [show more]
File Attachment: Great Head.pdf …Great Head is a prominent object when passing from BarHarbor to Southwest Harbor by water. No description can do justice to its savage grandeur.
File Attachment: Otter Creek Cliffs.pdf …Benjamin Franklin De Costa (1831-1904) "Otter Cliffs The drive from BarHarbor to the Otter Cliffs is five miles, and the road, nearly parallel with
File Attachment: Written in the Rocks-uncompressed.pdf …Known as the BarHarbor formation, these deposits roofed over the Ellsworth formation. …Geologists sometimes refer to the Ellsworth, BarHarbor, and Cranberry Island formations as "weak" rock. …In still other places, the dispossessed stones and cobbles become gravel bars and shoals. …BarHarbor was named for just such a bar, which connects it to Bar Island. Because the coast is young, sandy shores are rare.
File Attachment: Acadias Memorial Paths-uncompressed.pdf …Gladys O'Neil, a native of BarHarbor, is curator at Kurt Dietrich s Climb which ascends the eastern the BarHarbor Historical Society Museum. slope …He built The Turrets on Eden Street in BarHarbor, now owned by College of the Atlantic. …T1 HE BATES MEMORIAL, the most impressive of all of these, was erected in 1911 by the summer residents of BarHarbor, Northeast and Southwest Harbors …to honor the former BarHarbor Village Improvement Association president and chairman of their Paths Committee.
File Attachment: Schoodic-best quality.pdf …BarHarbor lies a dramatic corner of Acadia National Park that is also one of the last H of the great Down East fishing …For travelers who have explored BarHarbor, Schoodic is a spectacular new place to discover. id the lobsterboats wake you at 4:30? …During the summer, a The laid-back pace is reflected in the ferry travels between peninsula s two towns, Winter HarborBarHarbor and Winter Harbor …BarHarbor has always had the really affluent people, and it was very rare that you d find a million-dollar home on this side of Frenchman s Bay other