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The Snow Owl - Stuffed Owl in Collection of Wendell Holmes Gilley
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Nature, Animals
  • Object, Other Object
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1938-03
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright
Description:
...." – Bar Harbor Times, February, 1931...
The Boiler, Great Cranberry Island
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Object, Other Object
  • Places, Shore
  • Cranberry Isles, Great Cranberry Island
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
The Boiler, Great Cranberry Island
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
...The huge 11 ton boulder the local fishermen called “The Boiler” had been lodged in the mud just off Fish Point at the entrance to the Pool or harbor on...The Pool, a good sheltered harbor for schooners, is shallow with a 2-foot draft at low tide, rising to an 8 to 10 foot draft when the tide is in...The Bar Harbor Record, February 23, 1900 - Cranberry Island...
Acetylene Beacon Traffic Control Tower
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Object, Other Object
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Acetylene Beacon Traffic Control Tower
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
The traffic control tower at the junction of Main Street and Clark Point Road was an acetylene beacon made by the American Gas Accumulator Co. of Elizabeth, New Jersey


File Attachment:
Traffic Beacons.pdf
…Apparently Bar Harbor used the beacons too - "American Gas Accumulator Co., supplies for Beacons - $212.38" Annual Report of the Municipal Officers …of the Town of Bar Harbor, Year Ending 1927.
Richardson Family Flintlock Musket
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Object, Other Object
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Richardson Family Flintlock Musket
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
The gun was possibly used in the Battle of Norwood Cove.


File Attachment:
Richardson Family Flintlock Musket.pdf
…Special Interest: War of 1812, Battle of Norwood Cove, Southwest Harbor, Maine 1814. …Note: The estimated pedigree is made by the curator of the Southwest Harbor Public Library Digital Archive who is not trained in weapon identification. …The gun was found in the Richardson house at 5 Country Way, Bar Harbor, built in 1900 by Melville B. Richardson (1873-1953). …Morrill, published by the Southwest Harbor Public Library, 2014.
Horse Trough Memorial in Acadia National Park - a Mystery
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Object, Other Object
  • Lenahan - Donald Patrick Lenahan
  • 2014-01-21
  • In Copyright
File Attachment:
2014-01-21 Horse Trough Memorial in Acadia NP -- a Mystery.pdf
…Beatrix Jones, a prominent landscape architect who later married historian Max Farrand, was living at the time with her parents at Reef Point, their BarHarbor waterfront estate. 4 Just the building's cellar remains.
J. J. OBrien and His Jesuit Settlement Memorial
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Object, Site Marker, Monument
  • People
  • Lenahan - Donald Patrick Lenahan
  • 2012-09-27
  • In Copyright
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
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Object, Site Marker, Monument
  • People
  • Lenahan - Donald Patrick Lenahan
  • 2017-01-28
  • In Copyright
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
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Object, Doll
  • People
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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.