Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - MDI and the Fire of 1947

"MDI and the Fire of 1947 Belmont Hotel after the Fire of 1947Bar Harbor Historical Society The Fire of 1947 wiped out nearly 70 summer homes…"

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…"

Jesup Memorial Library

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Great Harbor Maritime Museum

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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…"

Maine Granite Industry Historical Society

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Abbe Museum

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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."

Bar Harbor Fire Department

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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…"

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…"

Skowhegan Community History - Sister Communities

"Desert Island and New Sweden) laid a foundation that allowed MHS to then develop the Maine Community Heritage Project, a program funded by the…"

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."

Bar Harbor Historical Society

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Seal Cove Auto Museum

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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."

Acadia National Park

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Southwest Harbor Public Library

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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…"

Great Cranberry Island Historical Society

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Skowhegan Community History - Benedict Arnold's March

"… men were ready to give up, and many of them were deserting. They were completely out of food, exhausted, with more sick than healthy."

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…"