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Seal Cove Auto Museum

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

"The Bryants and Rockefellers: Two Seal Harbor Families Marvin Bryant, Seal Harbor, ca. 1920Trenton Cemetery & Keeping Society Text by Eliza…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding Today

"Town Seal, Thomaston, MaineThomaston Historical Society Of the over 100 workers at the yard, most have made a lifetime career of fine boat building…"

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 - 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."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Life membership certificate, Farmington Public Library Association, 1917

"There is also a seal in the lower left-hand corner. It is a little uncertain, but we believe in the 1920's the library no longer issued these…"

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…"

Historic Hallowell - Initiative and Self-Improvement

"Debating Society topics and seal.Hubbard Free Library The questions posed by the members of the the Society provide a unique insight into the…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 5 of 5

"Bicentenial Memorabilia Seal, Dixfield, 2003.Dixfield Historical Society Sources: Dixfield Historical Society Archives and Artifacts Peter Stowell…"

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

"… Rock Pamphlet, Acadia National Park-Day Mountain, Seal Harbor, ca. 1960Mount Desert Island Historical Society Thuya Garden Entry Gate, ca 2012…"

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."

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 - 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 - 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 - 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…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding During and after the Civil War - 1861 to 1900

"… many, one,” the motto that appeared in the Great Seal of the United States of America in 1782) proudly on her stern."

St. Croix Historical Society

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Early Maine Photography - Occupational Photography

"… of a farmer and a sailor on the Maine State Seal symbolizes the importance of agricultural and maritime activities to the state’s economy in the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 5 of 6

"… belief that ownership was made not through royal seals, Indian deeds, or any deeds at all, but instead through possession—applying one’s labor to…"

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

"… House Hill in The Center, between Somesville and Seal Cove. For some time, these were the only churches on the island."

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…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 2 of 2

"… Historical Society & Museum Harold Seal, the author’s grandfather, was in his powerboat, the Cappy, hauling lobster traps near Higgins Beach when…"

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"Then came the step of sealing the cans in another section of the cannery, “bathing” the sealed cans in boiling water, and finally testing the cans…"