Keywords: Mt. Desert Island
Item 17375
Mt. Desert Island Hospital, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Mt. Desert Island Hospital Date: circa 1920 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Photograph Postcard
Item 22223
Mt. Desert High School, Northeast Harbor, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Great Harbor Maritime Museum Date: circa 1950 Location: Mount Desert Media: Photographic print
Item 110485
Asticou Azalea Garden shore plan, Mount Desert, 1982-1992
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1982–1992 Location: Mount Desert Client: The Island Foundation Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates
Item 149117
Richard Rockefeller residence site plan, Bartlett Island, 2004
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2004 Location: Mount Desert Client: Richard G. Rockefeller Architect: J. W.; Roc Caivano Architects
Exhibit
For one hundred years, Acadia National Park has captured the American imagination and stood as the most recognizable symbol of Maine’s important natural history and identity. This exhibit highlights Maine Memory content relating to Acadia and Mount Desert Island.
Exhibit
Great Cranberry Island's Preble House
The Preble House, built in 1827 on a hilltop over Preble Cove on Great Cranberry Island, was the home to several generations of Hadlock, Preble, and Spurling family members -- and featured in several books.
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Wartime on Mt. Desert Island
"Wartime on Mt. Desert Island Wartime did not pass MDI by. Many of the local men fought in the Revolutionary War and MDI continued to be represented…"
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economy on Mt. Desert Island
"Economy on Mt. Desert Island Mt. Desert Island was also being recognized as a prime location for businesses."
Story
A Note from a Maine-American
by William Dow Turner
With 7 generations before statehood, and 5 generations since, Maine DNA carries on.