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Great Harbor Maritime Museum

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

"Student narrative history of Mount Desert Island. Northeast Harbor: From Rustic to Rusticators By: Willie Granston The Granite Industry By: Mark…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"… Society The human history of Mount Desert Island began thousands of years ago when the ancestors of the Wabanaki people came to the place they…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Welcome and Introduction

"Photo by W.H. Ballard, circa 1940. X The history of Mount Desert Island, as seen through the lens of the Maine Memory Network, has been a work in…"

Great Cranberry Island Historical Society

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - About Us

"Great Harbor Maritime Museum Friends of Island History X Mount Desert Island Historical Society, Mount Desert, (207) 276-9323 The Mount Desert…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Civil War

"It lasted from 1861 to 1865, and because of it, much changed. Some island men went into the infantry or Navy."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Performance

"1884Abbe Museum Mount Desert Island began to change both culturally and geographically beginning in the 1500s as European settlements began to…"

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

"By 1789, they had incorporated the entire island as Mount Desert Township. Several years later, they divided the island in two, marking the area east…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Big Thunder

""My great-great grandfather Frank Loring, known as Chief Big Thunder, loved Bar Harbor and spent many years traveling there seasonally and camping on…"

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

"… latter 1800s, visitors traveled to Mount Desert Island by yacht, train, steamboat, or stagecoach—or a combination of these."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Third Generation and Beyond

"… descent to make a homestead on Mount Desert Island. The Manchester family first settled in 1775 near present day Manchester Point at the mouth and…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment

"… X Wabanakis who traveled to Mount Desert Island were entrepreneurial when it came to marketing."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators

"… (powered by oar, paddle, sail or steam)? Brave an island tour in a buckboard? Stroll a field and pick wildflowers? Some combination of these…"

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

"These families' actions on the Cranberry Islands were vital pieces in the success of Mt. Desert Island and the mainland."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 2 of 2

"Champlain Society Camp Pemetic, Mount Desert Island, 1881Mount Desert Island Historical Society Champlain Society member, secretary, and Botany…"

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

"… There Before cars were allowed on Mount Desert Island, steamboats were the primary mode of transportation to Mount Desert."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Basketball: From Rivals to Teammates

"Island high schools competed vigorously in intra-Island competition and in games and tournaments throughout the state."

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

"… canoes, in which he will take parties to several Islands in the bay and around Mount Desert Island. Carrying sporting parties to places where…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Of The Arts Era

"… was destroyed by the great fire that swept the island. It was never rebuilt. The Building of the Arts will be remembered as the region’s core…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …next came the artists and rusticators.

"… View across Frenchman’s Bay from Mount Desert Island after a Squall, 1845. Oil on canvas. (Cincinnati Art Museum) X The 1844 visit of New York…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell

"… and taught in schools away from Mount Desert Island in Maine and California between the years 1943 and 1953."

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

"Small. POSTOFFICES First Island PostmistressSwan's Island Historical Society For some fifty years after the settlement of this town there was…"

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

"Swan's Island softball team, 1958Swan's Island Historical Society Swan's Island softball team, ca."