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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - II. Ripples of change: European exploration & settlement at Winter Harbor - Page 2 of 2

"… European exploration & settlement at Winter Harbor Piles of logs along the Saco River, ca."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Arriving in Bar Harbor

"Arriving in Bar Harbor Bar Harbor steamboat landing, ca. 1885Maine Historic Preservation Commission Arriving at the Bar Harbor wharf…"

Winter Harbor Historical Society

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

"1930Great Harbor Maritime Museum In 1761, Abraham Somes moved his family to Mt. Desert Island and settled at the head of what is now Somes Sound…"

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…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - II. Ripples of change: European exploration & settlement at Winter Harbor - Page 1 of 2

"… European exploration & settlement at Winter Harbor Saco River narrows, Biddeford, ca. 1915McArthur Public Library Biddeford's coastal…"

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

"… Northeast Harbor Maine January 1928Northeast Harbor Library Harbor Cottage, a two-story New Englander styled house with an ell on the South side…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 2 of 3

"1980Northeast Harbor Library Northeast Harbor was spared the devastation of the October 1947 Bar Harbor fire."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"1980Northeast Harbor Library Northeast Harbor was one of the last villages on Mount Desert Island to develop a business center."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford

"… Public Library The village of Winter Harbor - west Saco was an increasingly dangerous place to live in the 17th and 18th centuries."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - IV. Engulfed by nationalism: Revolutionary Biddeford

"The heart of the town was shifting from Winter Harbor up the river to Falls Village. Prior to the building of the first bridge in 1758, the only way…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VI. The deluge of industrial expansion & immigration (1865-1900) - Page 1 of 2

"… of the Saco River and Union forts at Portland Harbor. There is Biddeford granite in the Lincoln monument in Springfield, Illinois and the…"

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

"Way Back Ball, Northeast Harbor, ca. 1945Great Harbor Maritime Museum Neighborhood houses and community halls had popped up in almost every village."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators

"… (Champlain) Mountain, 1886Abbe Museum Bar Harbor comes as near affording universal satisfaction to humanity’s craving for happiness as any place…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Inns

"Island House and slip, Southwest Harbor, 1893Southwest Harbor Public Library Making Accommodations By the mid-1880s, Bar Harbor boasted dozens of…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment

"Some of the tools used to make baskets and other items were collected by museums in later years."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Settlement

"… Harbor Library Northeast Harbor Section of 1807 Map by James and John PetersNortheast Harbor Library Climena Roberts Savage…"

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 - They Should Have Constructed Their Buildings On Wheels

"1890Northeast Harbor Library Text by Samuel Savage McGee, April 2013 Images from the collections of Mount Desert Island Historical Society &…"

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

"… 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 - Depression, War, and Fire

"A large section of Bar Harbor was gone. Some things would never come back. Bar Harbor's estates were gone and its standing as the country’s social…"

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

"Men in fishing dory, Southwest Harbor, 1890Southwest Harbor Public Library Oddly, with the growth of fishing in the early 19th century, commercial…"

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

"… as well as Somesville, Otter Creek, Northeast Harbor and Southwest Harbor and Tremont. Most of these early families received their land titles from…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born

"1930Northeast Harbor Library Emily N & John C. Savage and Family in front of the Big Barn, Asticou, Northeast Harbor, Maine 1912Northeast…"