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Bar Harbor Historical Society

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Bar Harbor: Building of Arts

"1930 Building of Arts, Bar HarborJesup Memorial Library The September 13, 1905 edition of the Bar Harbor Record made the announcement: “A New…"

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."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators

"Desert Reading Room, Bar Harbor, grew out of the town’s first club, the Oasis (founded in 1874) where men gathered to drink and talk."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment

"… Preservation Commission The Indian encampment at Bar Harbor will be found a pleasant place to wile away an hour or two."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rusticators on the Rise

"Kebo Valley Golf Club, Bar Harbor, 1907Jesup Memorial Library Yet for all the joys and solace of nature, some wanted more."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"Bar Harbor had its own horse track and a golf course where, in 1910, President William Howard Taft would play."

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

"… Harbor, 1881Abbe Museum Many Wabanaki men at the Bar Harbor encampments made themselves available as guides to take summer people in canoes for…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

"… eastern shore, and visit the villages of Bar Harbor, Southwest Harbor, and Somesville. The Logbooks Champlain Society Camp log, Mount Desert…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - 1925 National Governors' Association Convention

"… the Navy Airship Shenandoah, which took them from Bar Harbor to Passamaquoddy Bay, to Mt. Katahdin, Moosehead Lake, Rangley Lake, as well as…"

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

"This population of individuals built their own clubs, such as Kebo Golf Course and buildings, such as the Building of Arts, in Eden."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Eastern Maine Medical Center

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