Keywords: Barren Mountain
Item 11282
View from Sentinel East Ledges, looking North, 1944
Contributed by: Baxter State Park Date: 1944-09-24 Location: Mt. Katahdin Twp. Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
These stories -- that stretch from 1999 back to 1759 -- take you from an amusement park to the halls of Congress. There are inventors, artists, showmen, a railway agent, a man whose civic endeavors helped shape Portland, a man devoted to the pursuit of peace and one known for his military exploits, Maine's first novelist, a woman who recorded everyday life in detail, and an Indian who survived a British attack.
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings
"… had renamed it Isle des Monts Desert, "Island of Barren Mountains" -- a name that stuck. And various European powers had squabbled for a century…"
