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| Seawall in Fog Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Seawall in Fog Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Jessica (Hogdgon) Gretchel's yard Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Jessica (Hogdgon) Gretchel's yard Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Margaret (Mulholland) Birlem standing in the yard of Lawrence Bertrand Getchell (1906-1978) and wife Jessica G. (Hodgdon) Getchell (1906-2001) | |
| Maud Phillips with Howard and Alfrieda Leonard Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Maud Phillips with Howard and Alfrieda Leonard Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Maud E. (Gooch) Phillips, Howard and Alfrieda (Dorr) Leonard picnicking with Lynne and Wallace Birlem at Seawall. | |
| Lynne Birlem in Wonderland Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Lynne Birlem in Wonderland Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Charlotte's Legendary Lobster Pound Sawyer's Lobster Pound Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Description: Charlotte Gill (posing in the photo above) grew up in Southwest Harbor. In 2011, she took over a dilapidated ice cream stand (known by some as Frosty Bob's) located between Southwest Harbor and Acadia National Park’s Seawall Campground. She opened Sawyer’s Lobster Pound, named after a former beau. When the relationship broke up, Gill renamed the place after herself. |
| Isaac Stanley's Wonderland Lobster Pound at Seawall and Abel's Pound at Richville Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Isaac Stanley's Wonderland Lobster Pound at Seawall and Abel's Pound at Richville Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Bar Harbor Times, Wednesday, June 6, 1928 LOBSTER POUNDS ARE POPULAR PICNIC RESORTS Wonderland at Seawall and Abel's Pound at Richville Opened for 1928 Season The picnic lobster pound is a new and very popular form of beach resort. Lobster pounds, dammed-up pools or coves similar to salt water swimming pools, have been used for many years for the purpose of keeping large quantities of live lobsters for long periods. Within the last few years it has been found that a lobster pound that happens to be situated on a picturesque piece of rocky shore backed up by spruce groves, and is supplied with an open fire and iron kettle makes an ideal picnic place. The two places on Mt. Desert that are primarily pleasure resort pounds are both new, and are both so busy that their boiling kettles work at capacity during the summer. One is ''Wonderland", Isaac Stanley's pound at Seawall. Mr. Stanley's property consists of 147 acres of high wooded land with a shore front a mile and three quarters in length, including Bennett's Cove, Mullin's Cove, and Bennett's Cove Head between them. That point is the extreme southeastern tip of Mount Desert Island and is thrust out into the open ocean where Long Ledge runs off into the section of Atlantic Ocean between Great Gott's Island and Great Cranberry Island. The pound is made by a dam across one corner of Bennett's Cove. Instead of putting lobsters into it, they are kept in a car floating in the pound, and the pound is stocked with cod and haddock, so that guests can get their own dinner with hook and line if they prefer that kind to lobster. There is a large log cabin dining-room, sealed inside with fragrant cedar boards, for use on days when it is too cool or too damp to picnic on the beach or in the spruce grove. Besides the log cabin there are several other smaller cabins, and a house-boat which is hauled up on the beach inside the pound, which are let to guests as overnight camps or as cottages for the week or season. One of the cabins, just being completed, is built completely of cedar which was growing in trees a few weeks ago. "Wonderland" is unique in several ways, with its remarkably cool location, its moss-carpeted woodland of big spruce, and its peculiar beach formation of huge sea-smoothe granite rocks, and it attracts many visitors by sea and land. On one Sunday last summer Mr. Stanley counted nearly three hundred cars at his place during the day. Not all of the people who visit the Seawall pound go there to buy lobsters; many of them merely wish to enjoy an hour on a bit of Mount Desert's rugged shore. They are just as welcome in any case, and customers and guests meet with the same real "down east" hospitality. Mr. Stanley's place is already opened for the season, and on the last two Sundays entertained quite a number of visitors. Henry Abel's park is situated farther around on the western side of Mt. Desert, at Richville, a little cove between Bass Harbor and Goose Cove. Mr. Abel has one of the fine little headlands of the Island, which for purposes such as his, are rapidly decreasing in number as the shoreline is sold for summer estates. In some ways this spot is like Wonderland. It has a bluff granite promontory with a little harbor on one side, and a seawall beach on the other, and a growth of big evergreens with little grass and moss glades among the trees comes down to the landward edge of the ledges; but whereas Mr. Stanley's pound is on the open ocean, this one is on the shore of Bluehill Bay which is a deep and wide, but generally smooth, expanse of water. It has a beautiful panorama of the string of islands which some five miles out form the western and southern breakwater that shelters the bay. Back of the beach at the east of the point is Gundlow Pond a curious little precisely skow-shaped salt pool that rises and falls with the tide, although it is separated from the ocean by a hundred and fifty feet of high-heaped seawall. Abel's Pound has a houseboat hauled up among the trees, and several cabins, which are used to serve lobster dinners in inclement weather, or for overnight or weekly parties. Then it has an outfit of rustic seats and tables along the shore and through the grove. The park furnishes boats and tackle to its guests so that they can enjoy the very good deep-water fishing to be had just off the shore. Mr. Abel makes a specialty of taking care of his quests in any weather, or at any time of the day or evening, as he has found that people who are on the Island for a week-end of for a limited vacation period must utilize their time fully without waiting for ideal days and nights. [show more] | |
| Charles Wallace Birlem Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Lobsterland in a Storm Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Lobsterland in a Storm Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The original Seawall Dining Room is visible at left. | |
| Seawall Hotel Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Seawall Hotel Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Seawall Dining Room Placemat Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Seawall Dining Room Placemat Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Flexner Cottage, Seawall Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Flexner Cottage, Seawall Northeast Harbor Library Description: owned by Mrs. W. W. Flexner, Ithaca NY Photo 0829 a: rear of home Photo 0829 b: south east side of home Photo 0829 c: north west end of house showing bedroom and 1 living room window Photo 0829 d: view from living room Photo 0829 e: view at sunset from terrace Photo 0829 f: letter written to Mr. Knowles by Mrs. W. W. Flexner | |
| Seawall, Southwest Harbor Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Seawall, Southwest Harbor Northeast Harbor Library Description: Waves crashing on rocky shore. Photograph taken from Seawall in Southwest Harbor. | |
| Seawall, Southwest Harbor Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Seawall, Southwest Harbor Northeast Harbor Library Description: Waves crashing on rocky shore. Photograph taken from Seawall in Southwest Harbor. Great Cranberry Island in distance. | |
| Reid Cottage, Southwest Harbor Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Reid Cottage, Southwest Harbor Northeast Harbor Library Description: Could be the Betsey Pfeiffer Cottage right on Seawall Pt. Owned by Miss Doris Fielding Reid, 2448 Mass. Ave. NW. Washington DC. | |
| Surf at Seawall, Mt. Desert, Me. Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Surf at Seawall, Mt. Desert, Me. Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Mailed to: Mrs. Eldora Ward Manset, Me. Signed: G. Stanley | |
| George Edward Sanford House Peter Theodore Benson Jr. House Seawall Farm Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  George Edward Sanford House Peter Theodore Benson Jr. House Seawall Farm Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Edward Lothrop Rand and Party at Sea Wall House Hotel Pavilion Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Edward Lothrop Rand and Party at Sea Wall House Hotel Pavilion Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Edward Lothrop Rand is at the far left. As usual he is carrying his vasculum for collecting botanical specimens. Frank Mortimer Wakefield is in back with a walking stick. Henry Rand and his party were probably at the summer house or gazebo belonging to the Sea Wall House (hotel) as he recorded photographing the Dolliver brothers at Sea Wall just a few minutes before taking this photograph. There would have been few private pavilions as elegant as this in the Seawall district at that time. [show more] |
| Seawall Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Seawall Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| Seawall Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| William Dolliver Mayo and Emma Mayo at Seawall Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  William Dolliver Mayo and Emma Mayo at Seawall Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: William and Emma were stepbrother and sister. | |
| Helen Louise Mayo at Seawall Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Helen Louise Mayo at Seawall Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Seawall Campground Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Seawall Campground Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Lobsterland Restaurant Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Lobsterland Restaurant Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Lobsterland was a restaurant and lobster pound at Seawall that burned on August 28, 1965. The building that became “Lobsterland” was bought by David B. Benson from Vera Rich (Vera A. (Beal) Rich (1918-1996), Mrs. Maurice Stanley Rich) who had used it as a playhouse when she took care of children. The original address of the building was 411 Main Street, Southwest Harbor. The house on the lot was built by Maurice and Vera Rich. It later became the Fiddlers Green Restaurant. Lobsterland Leveled The Bar Harbor Times, August, 1965 by LaRue Spiker "... Lobsterland, a restaurant and lobster pound at Seawall, was leveled by fire August 28. David Benson, owner of the Lobsterland building, stated that the structure and its equipment were a total loss but partially insured. The cause has not been determined. A number of people reported the fire. Two boys are thought to have been the first to spot it. They said they first noticed fire inside the building; a few seconds later there was a muffled explosion and the whole roof was ablaze. Another person first noticed the fire concentrated at the far end of the dining room where the heater was located. Another person thought the fire was first heaviest in the center of the building where the trash cans were kept, raising the possibility that a live cigarette butt had been deposited in one of them. The property had been leased by Jesse Forbis [Jesse Lee Forbis (1915-1982)] this summer for operation of the restaurant and pound. Mr. Benson stated that he has no plans for re-building this fall but may do so next spring." [show more] | ||
| Annabelle's: Untying the Apron Strings at a "Backside" Institution Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Annabelle's: Untying the Apron Strings at a "Backside" Institution Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| "No Seat Without a Sweeping View of the Ocean" Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  "No Seat Without a Sweeping View of the Ocean" Southwest Harbor Public Library |
