Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Learn More

"Prins, Downeast Press, 2009. Canoe Indians of Down East Maine, by William H. Haviland, The History Press, 2012."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Civil War

"Civil War James Parker, Artificer, First Maine Heavy Artillery Regiment, ca. 1863Mount Desert Island Historical Society Soon something much…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - IV. Transitions and troubles: Private enterprise shoulders an island’s needs

"Because, you know, Bar Harbor, Northeast… those are people with money." Interactions between seasonal and year-round residents varied, but there has…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - A Short History of Mount Desert Island

"… have been a landmark to voyagers for 10,000 years.Maine Historical Society Text by Gunnar Hansen, adapted by Tim Garrity Mount Desert Island has…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - A Short History Of Performing Arts On Mount Desert Island

"… and Taylor Thomas-Marsh Nestled alongside Maine's central coast, the small island of Mount Desert has been a celebrated destination for vacationers…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Granite and Ice Industries

"… times was the ice industry, which had started in Maine 100 years earlier and peaked in the late 1900s, when Mainers shipped a million tons of ice…"

Abbe Museum

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Jesup Memorial Library

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

"Wartime on Mt. Desert Island Wartime did not pass MDI by. Many of the local men fought in the Revolutionary War and MDI continued to be represented…"

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

"Lodging and Hotels: A Savage Family Business Savage Family Hotel Page Images -III Click here to see pictures and read about the hotels and inns…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rusticators come to MDI

"Rusticators come to MDI The mid-1800s brought about change to Mt. Desert Island. Artists, including Frederick Church, came to the island to visit…"

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 - Wabanaki Today

"Wabanaki Today Wabanaki Today The Indian encampments are no longer part of the cultural or physical makeup of Mount Desert Island; however the…"

Davistown Museum

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Trenton Cemetery & Keeping Society

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Architecture & Landscape database - Lost Gardens of Eden

"Bar Harbor was called Eden for 1796 to 1918, and the last fifty years of that period was in many ways a “Golden Age” of architectural and garden…"

Acadia National Park

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Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2

"… newspaper, the fire was plainly visible at Bar Harbor almost 50 miles away. (Big Fire 2) Public Library catches fire, Bangor, 1911Bangor…"

Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 1 of 2

"Bucksport and Bangor Bar Harbor train leaving Bangor, ca. 1900Bangor Public Library This was a short line chartered March 1, 1870 to run 18.8…"

Surry by the Bay - Early Twentieth Century

"… the 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…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"… spent most of the year in New York and summers in Bar Harbor. He was also an avid supporter of the Ku Klux Klan."