Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More Permanent Settlers Arrive

"More Permanent Settlers Arrive Two major waves of settlers arrived after 1768 – the first from Gloucester, Massachusetts in addition to James…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …then came the settlers…

"…then came the settlers… Granite mountains, Mount Desert, 1837Maine Historical Society While exploring Mount Desert as a place “to carry on…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"Mr. Belcher’s early “fowling piece” is presently in the collection of Farmington Historical Society. We can only guess at its age."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Performance

"Early Performance The Indian Village, Bar Harbor, ca. 1909Jesup Memorial Library Frank “Big Thunder” Loring, ca."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Settlement

"Early Settlement Gravestones of John Savage and Sarah Dolliver SavageNortheast Harbor Library The first generation of Savages on Mount Desert…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Years on Mt. Desert Island

"Early Years on Mt. Desert Island Higgins Saw Mill, Somesville, 1890 Higgins Saw Mill which is believed to have been located in…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Early Settlement

"… close proximity to rivers and streams gave early settlers drinking water, a good source of food, power for mills, and ease of transportation and…"

Lincoln, Maine - Founding Fathers & Early History

"… something interesting about Lincoln's history.   Grant Clay Interview on Early Lincoln   John Edwards Interview on Early Settlers"

Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement

"Early Settlers Many of the early settlers came from Cheshire, New Hampshire, Newbury, Massachusetts, and Berwick, Maine, and they scoped out the area…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Early Schools

"… school buildings was erected in the forest by the settlers in the Thomas Wright District. in the upper portion of East Strong."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"Early settlers arrived by various seacraft (or by sleigh over frozen water) bringing with them all that was necessary to survive."

Blue Hill, Maine - Shipbuilding: An Important Early Industry

"… Sailing vessels were built in Blue Hill as early as 1792, but it was in the early 1800‘s that shipbuilding really took off."

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 1 of 3

"… As the new village began to grow and more settlers arrived, simple subsistence living including home-grown produce and home-raised livestock…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early History - 1719 to 1740

"During one of the early conflicts, a major Indian raid resulted in complete destruction of the sawmill, a large sloop, several log cabins and the…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

"Swan's Island Historical Society Early settlers supplemented their harvests with fishing to make a decent living."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Wartime on Mt. Desert Island

"… the island still show the stones of these early settlers, often with an epitaph that recognizes their status as a veteran of war."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Northeast Harbor: Rustic to Rusticators

"Desert Island was a wilderness when these early settlers arrived, and remained such for a number of years."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Division of MDI Begins

"… a picture of what life was like for those early settlers. Over the years numerous churches were built on MDI. In 1837 the town of Mt."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - In the beginning, there were the Wabanaki…

"… settle the lands that God gave us without making us some consideration. -Passamaquoddy Chief Abowadwonit (1763). ...then came the settlers..."

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

"… while Bar Harbor counts among its first white settlers the Higgins, Thomas, and Eden families. Somesville and mid-island, with the extended Pray…"

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

"… had started, of course, with the first settlers, who needed to get to the fishing grounds and to trade."

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

"… the Stanleys, the Gilleys, and even the first settlers of the Cranberry Islands, the Bunkers, can all be found on Mr. Bryant’s line."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Permanent Settlement

"Permanent Settlement The first permanent white settlers were the Abraham Somes family and the James Richardson family from Gloucester, Massachusetts."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"and Emily Savage, like other year-round settlers on Mount Desert Island, began taking in summer boarders at Harbor Cottage."