Description: ..."It is a special tribute to the town of BarHarbor, a diverse community surrounded by extraordinary scenery that inspired the original name, Eden...Boating to BarHarbor 4. BarHarbor's First Settlers 5. An island on fire 6. An education in ecology 7. Searching for a rustic life 8...Maps of BarHarbor and Mount Desert Island Magazine available in the Archives...
Description: ...Memories of growing up in BarHarbor in the late 1890's and early 1900's. Ms. Cole writes of the John D. Rockefeller Jr. family in Seal Harbor...
Description: Copy of article by L. Manion submitted for publication in Island History Journal contrasting the economic and social life of summer and year-round residents of Mount Desert Island.
Description: ...Nellie Carroll Thornton descended from early settlers of Southwest Harbor and was related, in one way or another, to practically all of her neighbors...Nellie was the author of the SWH social column in the BarHarbor Times from c. 1921 until c. 1958...Traditions and records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton (Nellie C...It was reproduced in 1988 by the Southwest Harbor Public Library and digitized in 2010...
File Attachment: Thornton - Traditions and Records SWH.pdf …Purington of BarHarbor and prayer by Rev. …The first message sent over the telegraph line from BarHarbor to Bangor was "From the Mayor of BarHarbor to the Mayor of Bangor Eden sends a telegraphic …., borrowed a boat of a neighbor and started for BarHarbor. …BarHarbor in the eighteen eighties.
Description: ...Short biography of Beatrix Farrand - her family background, her education, her focus on her Reef Point Gardens in BarHarbor, and her landscape projects..., including the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller garden in Seal Harbor...
The Max Farrand Memorial Fund, Bar Harbor, Maine. Copyright, 1953, by Reef Point Gardens Corporation.
Date:
1953-06
Place:
Bar Harbor
Description: ...Pamphlet titled "Reef Point Gardens Bulletin" published by the Max Farrand Memorial Fund, BarHarbor Maine in June 1953. Vol. I, No. 10...
Description: ...Municipal Storm Sewer Plan BarHarbor KS Cleaves CE...Plot showing Resurvey of Kebo Street, BarHarbor Maine Aug. 1907 - E. W...Plan of Land on West Street, BarHarbor, As laid out by Edgar I...Municipal Storm Sewer BarHarbor Cromwell Harbor Road - June 1949 K. S. Cleaves, CE. 1 sheet blueprint WGC 41...
Description: ...Seth Sprague Thornton, is leaving Southwest Harbor at Steamboat Wharf for her home in Houlton, Maine...Nell would have travelled by steamship from SWH by way of BarHarbor to meet the Maine Central Railroad at Hancock Point...
Description: ...Contents of Curtis Phelps Collection: CD1: - Main Street: 5 B/W images of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - 13 images of Northeast Harbor and Mount...Northeast Harbor 9. Rock End Hotel 10. Seal Harbor 11. Seaside Inn 12. Sloop Alice Marion 1921 13. Tarn - Old postcards: 1. Steamer J. T...BarHarbor 1890 3. Claremont 1900's 4. Handlock Pont 1910 5. IGA 6. Northeast Harbor 1920 7. Seaside and Glen Cove hotels 8. Somes Sound 9...
Description: ...Folder 34 Stereoview BarHarbor, photographed and published by B. Bradley...Folder 36 Cover of "Town of Winter Harbor Maine Annual Report 1988". Folder 37 Maine Times article on "Maine Summer Colonies"...Desert & Machias Steamboat Co., Dr. to Little Dear Isle (1899, 1900, 1901) - Bangor & BarHarbor Steamboat Co., Dr. (1990) - Islesboro, Castine & Belfast...Russel 1 Receipt: BarHarbor, 8/10/1885 for Mr. Lee for the amount of $6.00, signed by Mr. Ash...