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Green Grows Bar Harbor
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Other, History - Bar Harbor
Green Grows Bar Harbor
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
...Pre-publication copy of Green Grows Bar Harbor (part 2) History of Bar Harbor Return to S. Collier Bar Harbor, Maine on cover...
Equestrian Extravaganza at Bar Harbor
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Spiker, LaRue
Equestrian Extravaganza at Bar Harbor
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
...Equestrian Extravaganza at Bar Harbor essay covers early days of Bar Harbor including mention of summer residents, Horse Show and Fair...
Bar Harbor Town Plan 1948
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Manuscript
Bar Harbor Town Plan 1948
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
...Print copy including maps of a contractor's report for the Bar Harbor Town Plan in July 1948 in wake of the 1947 fires...
John Peters' survey of lots at Bar Harbor 1789-1791
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Manuscript
  • S.A. Eliot
  • unknown
John Peters' survey of lots at Bar Harbor 1789-1791
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
...These pages document twelve lots of 100 acres each of various people in the town of Bar Harbor...
Bar Harbor Seventy Years Ago
Jesup Memorial Library
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Other
  • Bar Harbor
Bar Harbor Seventy Years Ago
Jesup Memorial Library
File Attachment:
Bar harbor 70 Years Ago-uncompressed.pdf
…V (jRAvF BAR HARBOR SEVENTY YEARS AGO Yonosuela does not suggest Mount De set, yet it was on that perilous mountain drive down from Caracas that a chance …started these random memories I had been comparing the grade to the one up^reen Mountain and from that touched upon my own childish romomberanco of BarHarbor housewives* Milk was not a problem as all the natives had nu cows, but it was subject to uncertainty. …It Is not as beautiful as Bar Harbor. Few Places are, but it possesses the charm and serenity that Bar Harbor has lost* (#) Flying Squadron
Reflections on childhood in Seal Harbor, Sullivan and Sorrento
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Manuscript
Description:
...Reflections on author's childhood in Seal Harbor (where grandparents Frederick and Delia Billings owned the market), Sullivan, Sorrento and Bar Harbor...Describes ways in which children played and kept themselves busy; wartime life and effect of war on family life; visits to the Billingses in Seal Harbor...
Early History of Seal Harbor, 1959, History Claremont Hotel
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Events, Fire
  • Other, Auto
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Claremont Hotel
  • Other, Pemetic High School
  • Other, Seal Harbor
  • Carter, Lyda B.
Description:
...12 page typewritten manuscript. early history of Seal Harbor, Jan 1959 with corrections Letter from Mrs. Roscoe C...Smith, 1947, re Miss Gordon's letter about Bar Harbor fire...
Queen of Summer Resorts
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Tourists
  • nd
Queen of Summer Resorts
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
...Compares Bar Harbor, the Queen of Summer Resorts, to Holman Day poem. Spiker suggests you might see J.P...
Publicity for Boston Globe-Portland Press Herald
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Newspapers
  • Other, Publicity
  • Other, Tourism
  • LaRue Spiker
Publicity for Boston Globe-Portland Press Herald
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
...Publicity about great treatment tourists will receive in Bar Harbor, island; some history Previously archived as object id 012.FIC.065.10, **1395...
Bluenose Ferry Terminal
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Spiker, LaRue
Bluenose Ferry Terminal
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
...Bluenose Ferry Terminal: second terminal in Bar Harbor? Previously archived as 013.FIC.30.25...
Formation of Acadia National Park
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Spiker, LaRue
Formation of Acadia National Park
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
...[Early Bar Harbor]: Title given by cataloger (AB); author did not have a title...Essay covers early days of Bar Harborand the foramation of Hancock Land Trust and Acadia Naitonal Park...
Machias..., Lucky Beaver, Littlest Planet, Red Paint PeopleI
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Spiker, LaRue
Description:
...Machias: Cradle of the American Navy (historical fiction set in Revolutionary time) Lucky Beaver: Beaver damming Duck Brook, threatening water supply to Bar...Harbor Littlest Planet (written in Kentucky): fiction The Red Paint People: Indians on Union River, near Ellsworth, possibly pre-archaic; plummets'...
Somesville Bicentennial-Historical Notes
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Other, Somesville
Somesville Bicentennial-Historical Notes
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
...Robert Abbe, ferry and steam schedules, G.A.R. monument in Bar Harbor, Somesville Monument to early settlers dedicated 8/31/61, Ladies Sewing Circle...station at Otter Cliffs in WWI, Statue honoring Maine lobstermen, Prayer at Washington Cathedral honoring Maine, Baymeath, reminiscences of life in Bar...Harbor, [by Louise deKaven Bowen]; also reprint from Independent Woman, Feb. 1940 "First Citizen of Chicago" about Mrs...
Pretty Marsh Homesteaders and Town History
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Other, Pretty Marsh
  • J.M. Harlow
  • 1970
Pretty Marsh Homesteaders and Town History
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
...Typewritten copy of May 9, 1963 article in Bar Harbor Times, "Pretty Marsh was once Populous Farming and Fishing Community."...
Reef Point Gardens: Garden Guide Book Notes-circa 1948
Jesup Memorial Library
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Other
  • Bar Harbor
File Attachment:
Reef Point Gardens-Garden Guide Book Notes-uncompressed.pdf
…THE HANCOCK STREET ENTRANCE & DRIVE: Hancock Street rune South off Main Street in Bar Harbor and terminates at the entrance to Reef Point. …On either side the steps and tew are some plants of the famous Bar Harbor Juniper .At the terrace wall is a splendid planting of Bearberry which has established
The National Park on Mount Desert Island
Jesup Memorial Library
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Other
  • Bar Harbor
File Attachment:
The National Park on MDI-uncompressed.pdf
…He headed his boat up the broad sheet of water now called Frenchman's Bay-and landed in a little cove near where the town of Bar Harbor now stands, and
MDI III p. 5
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Cottages
  • Other, Hamor wharf
  • Other, Hotels
  • Other, Hudson School Artists
  • Other, Kettle Club
  • Other, Swimming Club
  • Other, Typhoid
  • Other, Unitarians
  • nd
MDI III p. 5
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
This is 5 pages of a draft with LaRue Spiker's handwriting on it. It is about the Hudson River School artists visiting the island and other visitors to the island Previously Archived as object Id 012.FIC.052.4, **1382