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Historical Items

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Item 23959

Bear Island Light, Northeast Harbor, ca. 1930

Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: circa 1930 Location: Northeast Harbor Media: Postcard

Item 23958

Bear island Light, Northeast Harbor, ca. 1930

Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: circa 1930 Location: Northeast Harbor Media: Postcard

Item 22237

Bear Island Light, off Mt. Desert Island

Contributed by: Great Harbor Maritime Museum Date: circa 1895 Location: Mount Desert; Cranberry Isles Media: Postcard

Online Exhibits

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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.

Exhibit

The British capture and occupation of Eastport 1814-1818

The War of 1812 ended in December 1814, but Eastport continued to be under British control for another four years. Eastport was the last American territory occupied by the British from the War of 1812 to be returned to the United States. Except for the brief capture of two Aleutian Islands in Alaska by the Japanese in World War II, it was the last time since 2018 that United States soil was occupied by a foreign government.

Exhibit

Hunting Season

Maine's ample woods historically provided numerous game animals and birds for hunters seeking food, fur, or hides. The promotion of hunting as tourism and concerns about conservation toward the end of the nineteenth century changed the nature of hunting in Maine.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Inns

"… avoided the confines of indoor work, but Theodore Bear Mitchell spent many summers working at the Malvern Hotel."

Site Page

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Civil War

"… for the sick and elderly, raise children, and bear the awful news that too often came in the form of long casualty lists in the newspaper."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Northeast Harbor: Rustic to Rusticators

"More than 100 men showed up for the first town meeting. In May of 1795, the Town of Eden separated from Mt. Desert, giving the Island two towns."

My Maine Stories

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Story

Wabanaki-Greenland connections
by Jennifer Sapiel Neptune

Exploring cultural resiliency in this time of rapidly changing climate.

Story

Florence Ahlquist Link's WWII service in the WAVES
by Earlene Ahlquist Chadbourne

Florence Ahlquist, age 20, was trained to repair the new aeronautical cameras by the US Navy in WWII