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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Summary: The Future: Recycle or Start from Scratch?
"Summary: The Future: Recycle or Start from Scratch? Aerial View of Northeast Harbor Looking North Towards Asticou ca."
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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."
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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…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Settlement
"Early Settlement Gravestones of John Savage and Sarah Dolliver SavageNortheast Harbor Library The first generation of Savages on Mount Desert…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Cottagers
"Cottagers Chatwold, Bar Harbor, ca. 1900Jesup Memorial Library As Mount Desert Island’s visitor count rose, many wealthy rusticators opted for…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …then came the settlers…
"…then came the settlers… Granite mountains, Mount Desert, 1837Maine Historical Society While exploring Mount Desert as a place “to carry on…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes
"The Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes Indian encampment, Bar Harbor, 1881Abbe Museum All the cooking at the Indian encampment is done…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Northeast Harbor: Rustic to Rusticators
"Northeast Harbor: Rustic to Rusticators Northeast Harbor Fleet Race, ca. 1930Great Harbor Maritime Museum In 1761, Abraham Somes moved his…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …next came the artists and rusticators.
"…next came the artists and rusticators. Thomas Cole’s View across Frenchman’s Bay from Mount Desert Island after a Squall, 1845. Oil on canvas."
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators
"Activities for Rusticators Climbing Newport (Champlain) Mountain, 1886Abbe Museum Bar Harbor comes as near affording universal satisfaction to…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Of The Arts Era
"Building Of The Arts Era Building Of The Arts, Bar Harbor, Maine The Building of the Arts was officially dedicated in 1907 and remained the…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Green Mountain Railway
"Green Mountain Railway Lithograph of Green Mountain Rail Road TrainGreat Harbor Maritime Museum In the 1880s railways were one of the most…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Twentieth-Century Community Life
"Twentieth-Century Community Life Bar Harbor and Bar Island, ca. 1930 Bar Harbor, as it appeared in 1930.Maine Historical Society Islanders…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Movies Come To The Island
"Movies Come To The Island Criterion & Star Tickets, Bar Harbor, ca. 1935Northeast Harbor Library As Bar Harbor evolved into a premiere…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Third Generation and Beyond
"Third Generation and Beyond Augustus Chase Savage, 1854Northeast Harbor Library Emily Manchester Savage, 1854Northeast Harbor Library…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born
"The Old Ell is Born Old Ell, Rye Field Lane, Northeast Harbor 1939Northeast Harbor Library By the year 1898, despite having previously built…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Guiding Services for Sport Hunters
"Guiding Services for Sport Hunters Wabanaki guides with canoes, Bar Harbor, 1881Abbe Museum Many Wabanaki men at the Bar Harbor encampments…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Inns
"Inns Louisburg Hotel, Bar Harbor, ca. 1900Jesup Memorial Library The list of Mount Desert Island inns is long and legendary."
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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…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Arriving in Bar Harbor
"Arriving in Bar Harbor Bar Harbor steamboat landing, ca. 1885Maine Historic Preservation Commission Arriving at the Bar Harbor wharf…"
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"Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor Main Street in the 20th century Red Cross Car and Trailer, Main Street, Northeast Harbor…"
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"Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor 21st Century Decline In 2008, a fire erupted in the Colonial’s restaurant on Main Street and…"
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"Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor A TALE OF BOOM AND DECLINE Text by Brook Ewing Minner and Hannah Stevens, with additional…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More Permanent Settlers Arrive
"More Permanent Settlers Arrive Two major waves of settlers arrived after 1768 – the first from Gloucester, Massachusetts in addition to James…"