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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 - Early Years on Mt. Desert Island

"… to have been located in Somesville.Southwest Harbor Public Library In the 1790 census of the town of Mount Desert which included the outer…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"… first road stretched from Somesville to Southwest Harbor, by way of Beech Hill. Everyone cleared land and planted fruit trees and grew vegetables."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment

"Wabanaki encampment, Bar Harbor, ca. 1887Maine Historic Preservation Commission The Indian encampment at Bar Harbor will be found a pleasant place…"

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

"In 1604 Samuel de Champlain wrote in his journal on September 5, “The same day we passed also near to an island about four or five leagues long, in…"

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

"Many families in Northeast Harbor and Mount Desert Island routinely moved and recycled their homes and buildings, particularly in the 19th and early…"

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

"… Hunters Wabanaki guides with canoes, Bar Harbor, 1881Abbe Museum Many Wabanaki men at the Bar Harbor encampments made themselves available…"

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 Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes

"… going to church “looked like a bird-of-paradise in a barn-yard.” From Bar Harbor Days, by Mrs. Burton Harrison, 1887. Continue to Big Thunder"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Minturn Schoolhouse

"1965Swan's Island Historical Society The Minturn Schoolhouse closed when the three island schools consolidated into one in 1951."

Winter Harbor Historical Society

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"Dark Harbor Post Office, Islesboro, ca. 1900Islesboro Historical Society Many other shops and businesses operated in Dark Harbor Village."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"… then “Longue Island Plantation” and then “Long Island.” In 1789, this island and the adjacent islands including Seven Hundred Acre, Job’s and Lime…"

Surry by the Bay - Early Twentieth Century

"… present Grange Hall and then, of course, the Bar Harbor fires in 1947 resulted in deep concern on the part of the Surry citizens whose community…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"… along the northern edge of Blue Hill Harbor to Wood Point, then turning south along the length of Long Island glaciers left exposed a rich vein of…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"And far cooler, for even the Rhode Island and Maine shores offered limited respite during August heat. The Roosevelt family felt no need for a bridge."

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… Old Surry was blessed by nature/With her harbor, hills and steams/The streams that furnished water power/Before days we knew of steam."

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"… signal to Coast Guard headquarters in Southwest Harbor, Maine. Fog A lighthouse is more than light."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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