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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 1 of 6

"Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou Text by Betsy Hewlett Asticou Valley View, Northeast Harbor, ca."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 2 of 6

"Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou Asticou Inn, Northeast Harbor, ca. 1925Mount Desert Island Historical Society Asticou Inn…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 4 of 6

"Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou Asticou Inn employees, Northeast Harbor, ca. 1910Mount Desert Island Historical Society Maintaining…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Second Generation & Permanent Structures at Asticou

"Second Generation & Permanent Structures at Asticou John II and Climena would outlive nine of their 11 children, most of whom died relatively young…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 3 of 6

"Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou Summer at Asticou Order of Supplies from Morse Co. for A.C."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 5 of 6

"Curtis was also a regular at the Asticou Inn dining table, taking evening meals at the Asticou Inn many of the nights he was at his cottage until his…"

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

"… Kenneth Savage and his relationships with the Asticou Azalea Garden, Asticou Terraces Trust, and Thuya Garden."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Postscript: More Moving Buildings

"Rose Lane Located today at 2 Asticou Way and constructed in 1895 by A.C. Savage for his son John, the building was outfitted as a general store and…"

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

"Houses at Asticou from the Scrapbook of Mary L. "Mame" SavageNortheast Harbor Library Hilltop House FloorplanNortheast Harbor Library The Big…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old House (circa 1820-2013)

"Phillips Family on Porch of Phillips Cottage, Northeast Harbor, Maine 1933Northeast Harbor Library Houses at Asticou from the Scrapbook of Mary…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Learn More

"Asticou's Island Domain: Wabanki Peoples at Mount Desert Island, 1500-2000, by Harald E.L. Prins and Bunny McBride, 2007 (Acadia National Park…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - They Should Have Constructed Their Buildings On Wheels

"… Generations Roberts Wharf and view up to Asticou from Northeast Harbor Maine ca. 1890Northeast Harbor Library Text by Samuel Savage McGee…"

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

"… main road of Route 3 meets the upper end of the Asticou Way as well as Asticou Hill Trail. Harbor Cottage served first as family homestead for A.C."

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

"… House, and about 30 acres of vacant land in Asticou spanning from Route 3 across from the Inn to northward as far as Forest Hill Cemetery, came…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Lodging and Hotels: A Savage Family Business

"UNDER CONSTRUCTION Asticou Inn Owned by family members Augustus Chase Savage, George A. Savage, and Charles K. Savage from 1883-1964."

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

"1975Northeast Harbor Library Aerial View of Asticou Way and Peabody Drive Looking East ca. 1975Northeast Harbor Library Today, in the early…"

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

"… Bingham Heirs’s Lot #67 in a hamlet they called “Asticou” at the head of Northeast Harbor in the town of Mount Desert."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Source Materials

"… and allowing the 19th Century oil painting of Asticou by Dr. John L. Hughes to be photographed and used for this project. Richard M."

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

"… inhabited Mount Desert Island, headed by Chief Asticou at Manchester Point (Northeast Harbor) by the entrance to Somes Sound."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"At Asticou, Chase Savage, who in 1870 had begun taking summer boarders, built the Asticou Inn. Soon other hotels followed in Northeast Harbor."

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

"Houses, barns, workshops, garages and sheds in Asticou were routinely moved, split up, and expanded as needed to suit the occupants, giving true…"

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

"John and Sarah Savage came to Asticou, at the head of Northeast Harbor, in 1798. He had left Scotland at 14 and had lost a thumb in the Battle of…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Settlement

"… family cemetery near the site of the present day Asticou Inn, and later moved with their gravestones along with other family members up the hill to…"

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

"Asticou Inn, Northeast Harbor, ca. 1945Great Harbor Maritime Museum During the 1930s, Northeast Harbor’s economy was not immune from the Great…"