Keywords: The Porcupine Islands
Item 25013
Bar Harbor and the Porcupines, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: circa 1900 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Postcard
Item 19106
Strawberry Hill view, Bar Harbor, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: circa 1910 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Postcard
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
The history of the region now known as Maine did not begin at statehood in 1820. What was Maine before it was a state? How did Maine separate from Massachusetts? How has the Maine we experience today been shaped by thousands of years of history?
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …then came the settlers…
"Fancy porcupine-weave basket, Penobscot, 1862Abbe Museum Living in scattered homesteads and small hamlets, these hardscrabble settlers busied…"
