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Historical Items

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Item 14444

Bar Harbor Historical Society

Contributed by: Bar Harbor Historical Society Date: circa 1997 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Wood

Item 14445

Bar Harbor High School football team, 1921

Contributed by: Bar Harbor Historical Society Date: 1921 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Photographic print

Item 14451

Robin Hood Park, Bar Harbor

Contributed by: Bar Harbor Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Postcard

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 111335

Club House, Bar Harbor, 1887

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1887 Location: Bar Harbor Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Item 110493

Okeden Subdivision, Bar Harbor, 1979

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1979 Location: Bar Harbor Client: David B. Ogden Architect: Andrews, Jacques & Rantoul Architects

Item 110458

Moore residence, Bar Harbor, 1984-2000

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1984–2000 Location: Bar Harbor Client: Elizabeth H. Moore Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Holding up the Sky: Wabanaki people, culture, history, and art

Learn about Native diplomacy and obligation by exploring 13,000 years of Wabanaki residence in Maine through 17th century treaties, historic items, and contemporary artworks—from ash baskets to high fashion. Wabanaki voices contextualize present-day relevance and repercussions of 400 years of shared histories between Wabanakis and settlers to their region.

Exhibit

Designing Acadia

For one hundred years, Acadia National Park has captured the American imagination and stood as the most recognizable symbol of Maine’s important natural history and identity. This exhibit highlights Maine Memory content relating to Acadia and Mount Desert Island.

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400 years of New Mainers

Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Bar Harbor Historical Society

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

Site Page

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…"

Site Page

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"1980Northeast Harbor Library Northeast Harbor was one of the last villages on Mount Desert Island to develop a business center."

My Maine Stories

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Story

Where are the French?
by Rhea Côté Robbins

Franco-Americans in Maine

Story

John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne

Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.