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The Future of Mount Desert Island
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Book
  • Places, Island
  • Charles W. Eliot II
  • 1928
  • Mount Desert Island
The Future of Mount Desert Island
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Charles Eliot's report to the Plan Committee of the B. H. Village Improvement Society addressing the future of Lafayette National Park and of the villages on MDI via the park service or the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations. Maps included. (Scanned copy in part from University of Maine)


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SCB 917.41 ELI.pdf
Dorr in 1916 to carryon and perpetuate the work which had resulted in the first acceptance by the United States of lands for Park purpose on Mount Desert …Dorr, some years ago, bought the Great Meadow to prevent its being used as a dump ground. …Dorr relieved of the burden he has so public spiritedly carried for many years.
Asticou's Island Domain: Wabanaki Peoples at Mount Desert Island 1500-2000.
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Book
  • People
  • McBride - Bunny McBride
  • Prins - Harald E. L. Prins
  • 2007-12
  • Mount Desert Island
  • No Copyright - United States
Description:
Acadia National Park Ethnographic Overview and Assessment Volume 1 and Volume 2 This two-volume historical-ethnographic overview of Acadia National Park spans almost 500 years and covers a wide coastal stretch between Penobscot and Gouldsboro Bays – and sometimes much beyond. Such breadth of coverage is necessary in order to take in the park’s center piece on Mount Desert Island, plus Isle au Haut and Schoodic Peninsula, along with various land holding arrangements (including easements) on numerous offshore sea-islands in this area.1 The study explores the shifting but ongoing relationship between this habitat and Wabanaki peoples – a group of northeastern Algonquianspeaking ethnic groups or tribal nations today distinguished as the Abenaki, Maliseet, Mi'kmaq, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot. [show more]


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wabanaki_peoples_vol1-optimized.pdf
…Charles Dorr. …Deasy. A committee on organization was appointed consisting of Messrs. John T. Higgins, Fountain Rodick, Elihu G.T. Hamor, B.S. Higgins, Fred A. …Dorr, hoping for national park status, offered the land to the federal government. …Dorr continued to acquire property and held to the goal to obtaining full national park status for the expanding preserve.

wabanaki_peoples_vol2-optimized.pdf
…(WL) Dorr, George B. 1997. The Story of Acadia National Park. Bar Harbor: Acadia Publishing Co.
Adventures on Mount Desert
Jesup Memorial Library
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Other
  • Mount Desert Island
Adventures on Mount Desert
Jesup Memorial Library
Alessandro Fabbri
Jesup Memorial Library
  • Publication, Booklet
  • People
  • Mount Desert Island
Alessandro Fabbri
Jesup Memorial Library