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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Bryants and Rockefellers: Two Seal Harbor Families

"… Two Seal Harbor Families Marvin Bryant, Seal Harbor, ca. 1920Trenton Cemetery & Keeping Society Text by Eliza Worrick Mt."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - MDI and the Fire of 1947

"… known with its hotels and B&Bs as a tourist spot while Seal Harbor and Northeast Harbor are now home to the summer population and their mansions."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - You Can Get Here From There

"… and later the villages of Northeast Harbor and Seal Harbor, the steamboats were essential in transporting not only people, but construction…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Cottagers

"… Southwest Harbor, Northeast Harbor, and Seal Harbor—followed a different course of development than Bar Harbor."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Original Mount Desert Island Pilot Project (2006)

"… Simis The Bryants and the Rockefellers: Two Seal Harbor Families By: Eliza Worrick You can get there from here By: Students at Mount Desert…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Twentieth-Century Community Life

"To add to the fun, Seal Harbor held an annual Old-Timers basketball game, pitting the village team against the "old-timers" outfitted in long-johns…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment

"… a great variety of aboriginal trinkets, skins of seal and deer, baskets of birch-bark, moccasins, bead-work, snow-shows, gulls’ breasts, stuffed…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"In 1869 the Clement family in Seal Harbor rebuilt their old homestead into the Seaside Inn. At Asticou, Chase Savage, who in 1870 had begun taking…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Settlement

"… William Roberts, a carpenter, settled first in Seal Harbor, and later along the eastern shore of Northeast Harbor."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"Soon there was a log store at the Seal Harbor beach, and one on the Northeast Harbor shore. Higgins Saw Mill, Somesville, 1890Southwest Harbor…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 6 of 6

"… Desert Land & Garden Preserve, located in Seal Harbor and Northeast Harbor, maintains a small archive of historic materials related to Charles…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Savage Family of Mount Desert

"… the newly settled Roberts family from neighboring Seal Harbor, and they established a permanent homestead just southwest of Harbor Brook at Asticou."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Summary: The Future: Recycle or Start from Scratch?

"… such as modular construction or patterned, pre-sealed ply-woods along with power assembly tools including portable saws and nail guns make a…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Student Narrative of MDI History

"A bronze plaque sits on a ledge just outside of Seal Harbor as a memorial to Champlain’s visit by and naming of Mount Desert Island."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes

"… fires, muskrat stews simmered, fish sizzled in seal oil, and Indian frybread bubbled up in hot lard."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Guiding Services for Sport Hunters

"… sporting parties to places where porpoise and seal may be shot. Guns and ammunition furnished when desired."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 5 of 6

"… of the local church congregation in Northeast and Seal Harbors, perhaps as early as 1935. Charles carefully watched Mr."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Founding of Acadia National Park

"They started with a tiny piece in Seal Harbor and a hilltop overlooking Jordan Pond. Soon they held the top of Cadillac Mountain, and in 1916 they…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Big Thunder

"… out on his own or with fellow tribesmen to hunt seals or gulls from the shores of other islands on the Maine seacoast."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - I. Canoes and Clamshells: The Pre-European Settlement Years

"… expertly handling canoes and hunting seal and porpoise. Swan’s Island may have attracted this tribe as a seasonal or even permanent home."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Island Postmistresses

"… time Letters were merely folded and secured with sealing wax no envelopes were used Postage was charged according to the distance the letter was…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… Job, Lime, Lasell, Ensign to the south; Ram and Seal to the west. The Precambrian rocks of 700 Acre, Lime and Lasell Islands are some of the oldest…"

Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property

"… guardianship of her daughter, Mina, and died in Seal Harbor (where she lived with Mina for just one month) on December 5, 1925, at the age of 84."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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