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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Permanent Settlement

"… log cabin along the shore in what is now known as Somesville. Richardson built his home further down the shore near what is now called the Sound."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Years on Mt. Desert Island

"Desert Island Higgins Saw Mill, Somesville, 1890 Higgins Saw Mill which is believed to have been located in Somesville.Southwest Harbor Public…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"Village Store and Homes, Somesville, ca. 1905Mount Desert Island Historical Society Church services were also first conducted in homes."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More Permanent Settlers Arrive

"… the island in what is now Bar Harbor as well as Somesville, Otter Creek, Northeast Harbor and Southwest Harbor and Tremont."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"Lumber Mill at the Mill Pond, Somesville, ca. 1905Mount Desert Island Historical Society Somesville was by now the economic and cultural center of…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Cottagers

"… Library Villages on the island’s western side—Somesville, Southwest Harbor, Northeast Harbor, and Seal Harbor—followed a different course of…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Twentieth-Century Community Life

"… opened in Southwest in 1919, and soon, even Somesville was showing movies Thursday evenings at the Masonic Hall."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"Lumber Mill at the Mill Pond, Somesville, ca. 1905 At Somesville, the presence of flowing water meant that mills, such as this lumber mill, could be…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Inns

"… the island’s first public house established in Somesville by Daniel Somes in 1820. Next, in Southwest Harbor, Henry Clark opened Island House…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 2 of 3

"… Somes, a developer and businessman who built the Somesville neighborhood in Saco and the Somes Block on Main Street in Biddeford."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Savage Family of Mount Desert

"Somesville and mid-island, with the extended Pray, Somes, Richardson, and Higgins clans, and Tremont with its Reeds, Goodwins, Lawsons, and Murphys…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 3 of 3

"… Harbor go the way of other island villages, like Somesville, with only an art gallery and a convenience store? Or will it descend to resemble the…"

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

"Village life centered around Somesville and Southwest Harbor. It is true that after two or three years, as the young men grew older, their scientific…"

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

"… the villages of Bar Harbor, Southwest Harbor, and Somesville. The Logbooks Champlain Society Camp log, Mount Desert Island, 1881Mount Desert…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Basketball: From Rivals to Teammates

"The school was located in Somesville until 1941, then merged with Gilman in Northeast Harbor until 1950."