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Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Structures, Transportation, Lighthouse
  • Maine
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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...Coast Guard has announced it will demolish the unmanned lighthouse which has stood on the breakwater at the entrance to Rockland Harbor since the beginning...The above photo was taken in 1904 when Captain Clifford Robbins of Southwest Harbor was the keeper...The 4300-foot breakwater, which protects Rockland Harbor from easterly storms, was eighteen years under construction and required 732,227 tons of stone...Lovering Robbins both died in Bar Harbor, Maine in 1967. Clifford's father, Howard P. Robbins was also a lighthouse keeper there. “Howard P...
Trenton Bridge Lobster Pound
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
  • Maine
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Trenton Bridge Lobster Pound
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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…Business History Trenton Bridge Lobster Pound Ogden s Lobster Pound Lobster Pound and Wholesale Lobster Business Address: 1237 Bar Harbor Road (Route …Nutting 10/1931 [655-23], foreclosed 9/1937; Sold to Fred B. and Alice Harmon Hayes 8/28/1940 [675-426] (Fred Hayes was an optometrist in Bar Harbor); …Readers who know better are encouraged to contact archivists at the Southwest Harbor Public Library so this account can be corrected.
Townsend - Charles A. Townsend (1871-1932)
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • People
  • Maine
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Townsend - Charles A. Townsend (1871-1932)
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Between 1905 and 1930, Townsend of Belfast, Maine, photographed the Maine coast from York to Hancock counties. The Eastern Illustrating Company in Belfast and photographer, W.H. Ballard, bought many of the Townsend photographs after his death.


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…Ballard subsequently gave many of Townsend s original glass plates, negatives and prints to the Southwest Harbor Public Library. …Townsend photographed all of his part of Maine, specializing in summer resort photographs, especially Bar Harbor. …s life in Rutland see: Rutland Historical Society Inc. 90 Center Street Rutland Vermont 05701-4023 802-775-2006 www.rutlandhistory.com The Southwest Harbor
Pickering Square
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Places, Town
  • Maine
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Pickering Square
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Pickering Square is bordered by Water Street and Merchants Plaza in downtown Bangor between Main Street and the Kenduskeag Stream. Now succumbed to urban renewal, historically it was the site of an open air market.


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…A considerable portion of the produce sold in this market is shipped to other points, principally to Bar Harbor.