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| Jordan Mountain Penobscot Mountain Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Ernest T. Richardson's Maplewood Lunch and Tourist Camps Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Ernest T. Richardson's Maplewood Lunch and Tourist Camps Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: "Beginning with the history of the houses of Somesville at the southern end of the settlement on the road to Southwest Harbor: there are several camps and cottages built in recent years around the shores of Echo Lake. Ernest Richardson has built two on the western side, Rolf Motz built a cottage close to the road on the eastern shore which he sold in 1935 to Mrs. O. C. Nutting. There are several others which have been owned by different people, and Ernest Richardson has a store and some overnight camps built in 1935-6 close to the road." – “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 257. For some time Ernest was in business with his friend Otto Clyde Nutting (1875-1972) [O.C. Nutting] with whom he went hunting and fishing. "There are several small houses on the right side of the road [on the eastern shore of Echo Lake], owned by people who have been employed by Nutting and Richardson in their lumbering operations. This firm operated a portable saw mill in this vicinity for a few years." - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 258. [show more] | ||
| Dunn - Gano Sillick Dunn (1870-1953) Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Dunn - Gano Sillick Dunn (1870-1953) Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Gano was brilliant, accomplished many things and received multiple awards. The library has cataloged many of them and described events in his summer life on Mount Desert Island. Interested readers are encouraged to investigate him online. | ||
| Whistler - A-Boat Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Whistler - A-Boat Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: “Whistler” won the George Davenport Hayward Cup at the Northeast Harbor Fleet in 1940. | ||
| Neilson - Harry Rosengarten Neilson Jr. (1928-1994) Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Neilson - Harry Rosengarten Neilson Jr. (1928-1994) Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Sargeant Drive Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Sargeant Drive Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Champlain Society's Camp Pemetic Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Champlain Society's Camp Pemetic Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The camp was located on the bluff above Wasgatt Cove "on the east side of Some's Sound, a little to the north of the house of Mr. Asa Smallidge, and opposite Flying Mountain and the cliff of Dog Mountain on the western side of the Sound." "Charles [Eliot] did not know just where he would pitch the camp, but expected to find a suitable and central place somewhere between Otter Creek and Seawall Point. So, after picking up the camp equipment at a house on Waukeag Neck, he cruised along that shore and went up into Somes Sound and anchored in what we now call Wasgatt's Cove on the eastern shore. There, above the gravel bank, was a bit of open meadow with a good spring at the back and just to the north of the brook which is the outlet of Hadlock Pond fell with a little waterfall into the cove." - "The Champlain Society" fragment of manuscript by Samuel Atkins Eliot, 1931 - in the collection of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society. See also: "Charles Eliot, Landscape Architect, A Lover Of Nature And Of His Kind, Who Trained Himself For A New Profession, Practised It Happily And Through It Wrought Much Good," p. 26. [show more] | ||
| Upper Hadlock Pond and Lower Hadlock Pond Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Upper Hadlock Pond and Lower Hadlock Pond Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Donnell - Orrin A. Donnell (1859-1947) Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Donnell - Orrin A. Donnell (1859-1947) Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Ship's Log, Schooner Marion Great Harbor Maritime Museum |
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|  Ship's Log, Schooner Marion Great Harbor Maritime Museum Description: Ship's log for the Schooner Marion, 1836-1837 This log records voyages of the Schooner Marion, commanded by Eaton Clark from February 1836 to June 1836 (potentially a bit longer). From June 1836 (and definitely by November ben 1836) until July 1836 the schooner was commanded by Jacob Sawyer. Destinations mentioned include: Puerto Rico, Mount Desert, Lubec, Williamstown, New York, Port au Plat, St. Domingo, and others | |
| Mount Desert Shipping Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Mount Desert Shipping Northeast Harbor Library Description: Lists of ships, tonnages and owners in Mount Desert 10 pages stapled or taped with 2 loose sheets | |||
| Mount Desert tax records - 1831 - 1838 - 1839 Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Mount Desert tax records - 1831 - 1838 - 1839 Northeast Harbor Library Description: Town of Mt. Desert valuation ledgers of above years in Comb bound booklet. Eden tax records 1890 1841, stapled computer print-out. | ||
| McLean Residence, House and Guest House Northeast Harbor Library |
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| McLean Residence, House and Guest House Northeast Harbor Library Description: Property plan, site plan, floor plans, elevations, schedules, framing plans, details, sections, mechanical plans Roc's Comments: I have liked most of the clients I have worked for over the years. The McLeans are in the top 5. Two older Philadelphia people who found each other later in life and joined their big families. They were happy and kind and wonderful to work with. Don had found some property that was thought to be inaccessible but once we had hiked to the site the view was magnificent looking down into all of Northeast Harbor and across to Greenings and Southwest. Harris Hyman, my partner and friend was an excellent civil engineer and he worked out a precipitous drive up the side of the mountain to their ideal site. We decided that, while the view was excellent from there we did not want to harm the view looking back toward their home so I suggested we build the home then only sparingly prune tree limbs for the view. As the land was so steep I also suggested we wrap the grade level and porches and support columns in study western red cedar lattice made to silver out and blend into the surrounding forest texture. This was the first time I tried this and have used it often since. The mottled texture of the surface diminishes the visual impact of a structure on its surround. Something, I think, the early shingle style architects tried often. I was a full time employee working for Venturi, Scott Brown in Philadelphia at the time and did this project at night and on weekends. It was good to see the McLeans in their home state and know the vacation home site as well. This project, in my mind was a total success. [show more] | |
| Mount Desert Bicentennial Art Posters Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Mount Desert Bicentennial Art Posters Northeast Harbor Library Description: Mt. Desert Elementary School winners of student art contest to celebrate the Bicentennial of Mount Desert. Winners were (a) Lelah Cole (6th grade), (b) Monica Hanson (grade 4/5), (c) Erin Morse Fernald (grade 3). Event date was August 5th 1989 in Northeast Harbor. | ||
| Editor's Notes: Automobiles The Mount Desert Town Meeting Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Editor's Notes: Automobiles The Mount Desert Town Meeting Northeast Harbor Library Description: August 6, 1959 A poem written by professor H. W. Smyth, summer resident of Seal Harbor, Maine in response to a town meeting regarding automobiles on Mount Desert Island. | ||
| Road from Somesville to Northeast Harbor Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Road from Somesville to Northeast Harbor Northeast Harbor Library Description: Handwritten description/survey of the road, currently Route 198, between Somesville and Northeast Harbor for the Board of County Commissioners. | ||
| Mount Desert Quarterly Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Mount Desert Quarterly Northeast Harbor Library Description: Newsletter of the Mt. Desert Summer Residents Association about school funding formula, jet skis, Steve Smith's ownership of take-out restaurant in Seal Harbor. | ||
| Abraham Somes Letters about Mount Desert and Sutton Island Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Abraham Somes Letters about Mount Desert and Sutton Island Northeast Harbor Library Description: Letter of Abraham Somes to Eben Parsons Esq. in regard to the Settlement of Mount Desert. | |||
| Program of the Garden Club of Mt. Desert Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Program of the Garden Club of Mt. Desert Northeast Harbor Library Description: Description of the annual summer garden tour in Bar Harbor, Northeast Harbor and Bar Harbor with many of the gardens the work of Beatrix Farrand. | ||
| Brown family Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Brown family Northeast Harbor Library Description: Letter seeking information on the Brown family - John Sr. and Jr. from Northeast Harbor included with ties to Cranberry Island beginning with the War of 1812 | ||
| Our Town of Mount Desert in the Civil War Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Our Town of Mount Desert in the Civil War Northeast Harbor Library Description: Material, compiled by Robert Pyle, used in an exhibition at the Northeast Harbor Library from April-June 2011 on the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. | |
| Collection of Mt. Desert residents' obituaries Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Collection of Mt. Desert residents' obituaries Northeast Harbor Library Description: Green bound date book labeled Year Book 1939 in which Belle Smallidge Knowles attached clippings of obituaries of Northeast Harbor residents et al. | ||
| Automobiles - The Mount Desert Town Meeting Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Automobiles - The Mount Desert Town Meeting Northeast Harbor Library Description: Copy of a poem by Herbert Weir Smyth, Harvard professor, about the vote of residents of Mount Desert banning automobiles in the town. This was published August 23, 1913 in Bar Harbor Life. See also item 1564 | |
| Proposed Mount Desert Property Valuations Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Proposed Mount Desert Property Valuations Northeast Harbor Library Description: Special inset section of Bar Harbor Times listing updated property valuations for residents of the Town of Mount Desert. | |
| Bar Harbor Times articles: Police Department Events: Mount Desert Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Bar Harbor Times articles: Police Department Events: Mount Desert Northeast Harbor Library Description: Newspaper articles: - Memorial Day Parade, 1977 - Northeast Harbor, Maitland Murphy speech to Echo Lake Association, 1977 - Police Policy Manual, 1975 - Mount Desert Ambulance Service, 1975 |