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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Source Materials

"… Island Historical Society and the Northeast Harbor Library, the author gives thanks in particular the following people and resources crucial to the…"

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

"1950Mount Desert Island Historical Society Charles Kenneth Savage (1903-1979) had an eye for the intrinsically beautiful natural landscape of Mount…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Founding of Acadia National Park

"They started with a tiny piece in Seal Harbor and a hilltop overlooking Jordan Pond. Soon they held the top of Cadillac Mountain, and in 1916 they…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"Nearby, the deep and protected harbor of Somes Sound provided a means of shipping goods to market. Mount Desert Island Historical Society But all…"

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

"… met the island’s “Indian Governor” near Southwest Harbor, “bought” land from him for a gallon of rum, and documented the deal on a piece of birch…"

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

"Odd Fellows Building, Blue Hill, ca. 1900Blue Hill Historical Society The Odd Fellows and Rebekahs, the Masons and Eastern Star, the Granges in…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"Other coastal communities like Bar Harbor and Camden show similar signs of great education systems. Blue Hill village was centered mostly around the…"

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

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

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

"… the Atlantic Coast.Mount Desert Island Historical Society Eventually things improved -- aided by such things as the development of the granite…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Civil War

"1863Mount Desert Island Historical Society Soon something much worse happened which affected the island greatly -- the Civil War."

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…"

Lincoln, Maine - Ferries

"It travels from Bar Harbor to Nova Scotia, Canada. Bridges now allow us to go over bodies of water that we would never be able to cross before."

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…"

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

"… sites of Long Island’s Hamptons, Newport, even Bar Harbor. And far cooler, for even the Rhode Island and Maine shores offered limited respite…"

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…"

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."

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