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Keywords: Pond Island

Historical Items

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Item 24010

Long Pond, ca. 1930

Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: circa 1930 Location: Seal Harbor Media: Postcard

Item 79489

Mt. Desert from Sutton's Island, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Northeast Harbor Library Date: circa 1900 Location: Mount Desert Media: Postcard

Item 22262

Jordan Pond and the Bubbles, Mt. Desert Island, ca. 1940

Contributed by: Great Harbor Maritime Museum Date: circa 1945 Location: Mount Desert; Mount Desert Media: Postcard

Tax Records

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Item 89174

Downes property, East End Avenue Near Ice Pond, Long Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Cynthia A. Downes Use: Summer Dwelling

Item 90753

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 116283

Fitzgerald Block, Brighton, VT, 1888

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1888 Location: Brighton Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens and Albert Winslow Cobb Architects

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

Item 116307

Fitzgerald house, Brighton, VT, 1888

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1888 Location: Brighton Client: George H. Fitzgerald Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Designing Acadia

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

Umbazooksus & Beyond

Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.

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From Sewers to Skylines: William S. Edwards's 1887 Photo Album

William S. Edwards (1830-1918) was a civil engineer who worked for the City of Portland from 1876-1906. Serving as First Assistant to Chief Engineer William A. Goodwin, then to Commissioner George N. Fernald, Edwards was a fixture in City Hall for 30 consecutive years, proving indispensable throughout the terms of 15 Mayors of Portland, including all six of those held by James Phineas Baxter. Edwards made significant contributions to Portland, was an outstanding mapmaker and planner, and his works continue to benefit historians.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Playing at the pond

"… Swan's Island, 1949Swan's Island Historical Society Swimmers at the Quarry Pond, Swan's Island, ca. 1960Swan's Island Historical Society"

Site Page

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"Lumber Mill at the Mill Pond, Somesville, ca. 1905Mount Desert Island Historical Society Somesville was by now the economic and cultural center of…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"Lumber Mill at the Mill Pond, Somesville, ca. 1905 At Somesville, the presence of flowing water meant that mills, such as this lumber mill, could be…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne

Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.