Maine Memory Network

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…"

Mount Desert Island Historical Society

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Great Harbor Maritime Museum

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Jesup Memorial Library

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Maine Granite Industry Historical Society

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Architecture & Landscape database - Lost Gardens of Eden

"Mount Desert Island was a place of environmental diversity and dramatic landscape well before it became a favorite summering place of Indigenous…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Welcome to Swan's Island!

"… a six mile ferry ride out of Bass Harbor in Mount Desert Island, is the current home of between 300 and 350 year round residents."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 4 of 5

"… Francis Bernard, who received a grant of Mount Desert Island from the General Court in 1762, was unable to get his grant confirmed until he had…"

Surry by the Bay - Late Twentieth Century

"… “downeast” towards Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island; some of them discovered Surry during their travels and several of them purchased…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Stores

"… then McKinley (now known as Bass Harbor, on Mount Desert Island), and returned to Swan’s Island in the evening."

Surry by the Bay - Surry Today

"… collar jobs in Ellsworth, Bangor and on Mount Desert Island. Surry Elementary School, which was designated a National Title 1 Distinguished School…"

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

"… and McKinley (now known as Bass Harbor, on Mount Desert Island) and returned to Swan’s Island in the evening."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Island Postmistresses

"… at the postoffice either at Deer Isle or Mount Desert and was brought to this island when a sail boat chanced to visit those places This was very…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Population Decline in Maine's Coastal Counties

"Granite quarry, Mount Desert, c.1890Maine Granite Industry Historical Society The quarrying industry Maine's coastal granite quarries were in a good…"

Abbe Museum

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Acadia National Park

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Great Cranberry Island Historical Society

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Surry by the Bay - Early Twentieth Century

"… whose community was as tinder dry as Mount Desert Island. Fortunately Surry had no major problems, but the citizens who had been so worried that…"

Surry by the Bay - Broadway by the Bay

"… in grand cottages in places such as Mount Desert Island, Blue Hill and Castine. The Playhouse offered some elegance and culture in a charming…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"… sporadic mail brought from the Deer Isle or Mount Desert Island post offices whenever a sailboat happened to be heading through."

Mercy Hospital - Mercy & the Community

"… a series of blazes from York County to Mount Desert Island hit Maine during an extremely dry autumn."

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… down the Neck minus their headlights, the drivers would secure their cargo, and slip away towards Bangor and Mount Desert Island. Next Page"

Bar Harbor Fire Department

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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - About This Project

"Desert Island) laid a foundation that allowed MHS to then develop the Maine Community Heritage Project, a program funded by the Institute of Museum…"