Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: One of the five Cranberry Islands located in the Town of Cranberry Isles on the southeastern side of Mount Desert Island. It is a year-round community.
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: "The first Coast Guard presence in the Mt. Desert Island area was a Life Saving Station located on Little Cranberry Island, established by an act of congress on June 18th, 1878. 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. [show more]
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: William Otis Sawtelle (1874-1939), physicist, historian, genealogist, author founded the museum in 1919. Architect Edmund B. Gilchrist designed the Colonial Revival building, built in 1927. The building, Sawtelle’s Edwin Hadlock’s ship chandlery (The Blue Duck Ships’ Store) the Sawtelle gravesite, and 1.3 acres were acquired by the National Park Service in 1948. The Islesford Historical Museum built in 1927 contains deeds, maps, engravings, papers, and artifacts related to the early history of the Acadia region. The collection also includes artifacts of the region's cultural history including fur- nishings, tools, photographs and scrapbooks. The records of the active schooner which carried cargoes from the Cranberry Isles to ports all over the world cover about one hundred years beginning in 1796. [show more]
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: Short biography of Islesford's resident artist and storyteller, Ashley Bryan with focus on his life and home on Cranberry Island. Published in Down East Magazine, December 1991.
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: Personal and business correspondence, receipts, ledgers of Islesford Wharf Co., annual reports to Maine Public Utilities Commission, and other documents relating to the creation of the Islesford Wharf Co. and the Islesford Historical Committee which would insure public access to Little Cranberry Island and provide a historical museum and repository for local public records, other documents, and historical items.
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: Little Cranberry Island. Houses, from left: S. Hadlock, 1830, burned 1915; H. Wells, 1903; and C. Pancoast, 1903. Ocean with small boats moored in middle ground.
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: Little Cranberry Island. House to right of center is the Maypole, built 1903. Many small rowboats and sailboats moored in water in foreground.
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: Little Cranberry Island. Left, Walter Stanley house. Center building was coal wharf, now the Islesford dock. Black and white Photograph, with chemical stains.
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: Little Cranberry Island. The trees were planted by Nathanial Gott. Houses from left: William Young's; Nate Stanley's, Hotel Islesford; Arthur Spurling's.