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The Dollar Social at Southwest Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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The Dollar Social at Southwest Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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...In 1892 the ladies of Southwest Harbor gathered together to raise money for land upon which to build a library building and then reported how they raised...their dollar..The Dollar Social was the first fundraising event held for the Southwest Harbor Public Library and the poem describing it was famous in...


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The Dollar Social at Southwest Harbor.pdf
…The Dollar Social At Southwest Harbor The Southwest Harbor Public library was founded in 1884. …Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 115. …"The Dollar Social At Southwest Harbor" describes how each woman earned her dollar. …Tracy, our Republican friend, took a bribe, I'm sorry to state, For her husband promised her a dollar if she would help him illuminate, So she sacrificed bar
Civilian Conservation Corps - Company 154
Eagle Lake Camp
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Organizations, Civic
  • Places, Camp
  • Bar Harbor
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Civilian Conservation Corps - Company 154
Eagle Lake Camp
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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...The Eagle Lake CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camp (NP-1), Company 154, at Bar Harbor was operated under the supervision of the National Park Service...


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CCC – Company 154 – BH - T.pdf
…History CCC Company 154 BH Civilian Conservation Corps - Company 154 Eagle Lake Camp Address: 22 McFarland Hill Drive (Eagle Lake Road) City: Bar …Company 158 Great Pond [Long Pond] Camp ME SWH Long Pond Road - 059 The Eagle Lake CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camp (NP-1), Company 154, at BarHarbor was operated under the supervision of the National Park Service from May 1934 to June 1942. …In June 1933, Company 158 (NP-2) established a work camp on Great [Long] Pond near Southwest Harbor.
Fraternal Orders Collection
Northeast Harbor Library
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  • Mount Desert Island
Fraternal Orders Collection
Northeast Harbor Library
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...Mount Desert Lodge No. 140 (Item 7403) Ocean Lodge No. 140 (Item 7404) Oder of the Eastern Star No. 118 (Item 7405) Bar Harbor Lodge No. 185 (Item 7406...) Northeast Harbor Lodge No. 208 (Item 7407)...
Vesta E. (Spear) McRae House and Original Bass Harbor Library
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Organizations, Civic, Public Library
  • Structures, Civic, Library
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Tremont, Bernard
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Vesta E. (Spear) McRae House and Original Bass Harbor Library.pdf
…Spear McRae (1842-1916) The first Bass Harbor Library was begun by Vesta E. (Spear) McRae, Mrs. …The new library and free reading room at Bass Harbor supplies a long-felt want in the community. Last autumn Mrs. G.M. …- The Bar Harbor Record, January 9, 1901. …In 1909 the Bass Harbor Library in Bernard, Mrs. V. E.
Cranberry Isles Life Saving Station
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Structures, Other Structures
  • Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
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Cranberry Isles Life Saving Station
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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...In 1937, the Southwest Harbor complex was created and used as a lighthouse depot by the U.S. Light House Service...By 1945, the Coast Guard Station on Little Cranberry Island was moved to the facility in Southwest Harbor.” - “Sector Field Office (SFO) Southwest Harbor..., Southwest Harbor, Maine – History,” United States Coast Guard site, 06/28/13, Accessed online 07/20/10; http://www.uscg.mil/d1/sfoSouthwestHarbor/history.asp...


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US LIFE-SAVING - CRANBERRY ISLES.pdf
…In 1937, the Southwest Harbor complex was created and used as a lighthouse depot by the U.S. Light House Service. …By 1945, the Coast Guard Station on Little Cranberry Island was moved to the facility in Southwest Harbor. …Sector Field Office (SFO) Southwest Harbor, Southwest Harbor, Maine History, United States Coast Guard site, 06/28/13, Accessed online 07/20/10; …Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 284-285.
Great Pond Camp, Company 158 - Civilian Conservation Corp
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Organizations, Civic
  • Places, Camp
  • Southwest Harbor
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...The Great Pond Camp in Southwest Harbor operated from 1933-1941...“The Southwest Harbor camp was opened about May, 1933 with enrollees erecting and living in tents while construction of the roll roofing covered barracks...The camp was located at the height of ground on the west side of the road leading from Southwest Harbor village to the south end of Great Pond [Long Pond...


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CCC – Company 158 - SWH - T.pdf
…Camp Date Founded: 1932 Date Built: 1933 Other locations: CCC Company 154 BH Civilian Conservation Corps - Company 154 Eagle Lake Camp ME BarHarbor McFarland Hill Drive - 022 In 1932 Franklin D. …In June 1933, Company 158 (NP-2) established a work camp on Great [Long] Pond near Southwest Harbor. …Coffin Brown, Olmstead Center for Landscape Preservation, p. 122137, 2006 The Eagle Lake CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camp (NP-1), Company 154, at Bar
Maine Seacoast Mission
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Bar Harbor
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Maine Seacoast Mission
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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...The Society maintained a mission for three decades on Head Harbor Island (1910-1940) and another intermittently for some years on Crowley (Moose) Island...
The Champlain Society
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Lincoln - Nan Lincoln
  • 1996
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The Champlain Society
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Champlain Society - BHT - 08-01-1996.pdf
…THE CHAMPLAIN SOCIETY by Nan Lincoln The Bar Harbor Times, August 1, 1996 Most histories of Acadia National Park credit three men with the park …building a permanent seasonal residence on the island, his brother Charles convinced his father to eschew the Frenchman Bay area with its ostentation BarHarbor summer traffic in favor of the still undiscovered Northeast Harbor area.
The Civilian Conservation Corps
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Organizations, Civic
  • Lenahan - Donald Patrick Lenahan
  • 2015-03-13
  • In Copyright
The Civilian Conservation Corps
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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2015-03-13 The Civilian Conservation Corps.pdf
…One was the Eagle Lake Camp, 154th Company, located in Bar Harbor at the current site of Park headquarters. …The second was the Great Pond Camp, 158th Company, located in Southwest Harbor near Long Pond (formerly Great Pond). …Just outside the Park boundary, it likely was on the site of the former CCC camp in Southwest Harbor.
The CCC in Acadia
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Organizations
  • Russell - Jack Russell
  • 2008
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The CCC in Acadia
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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CCC - Russell - 2008.pdf
…By 1933, more than 700 unemployed men from Bar Harbor alone had registered their need for work.