Keywords: Cranberry Isles
Item 82319
Rachel Field, Arthur Pederson, Cranberry Isles, 1935
Contributed by: Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Date: 1935 Location: Cranberry Isles Media: Digital image
Item 16462
Net reel at Prebles Cove, Cranberry Isles, 1892
Contributed by: Southwest Harbor Public Library Date: 1892 Location: Cranberry Isles Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Great Cranberry Island's Preble House
The Preble House, built in 1827 on a hilltop over Preble Cove on Great Cranberry Island, was the home to several generations of Hadlock, Preble, and Spurling family members -- and featured in several books.
Exhibit
Rebecca Usher: 'To Succor the Suffering Soldiers'
Rebecca Usher of Hollis was 41 and single when she joined the Union nursing service at the U.S. General Hospital at Chester, Pennsylvania. Her time there and later at City Point, Virginia, were defining experiences of her life.
Site Page
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Northeast Harbor: Rustic to Rusticators
"Desert Island, the Cranberry Isles, Bartlett's Island, Robertson's Island and Beech Island. More than 100 men showed up for the first town meeting."
Story
In an Old, Abandoned Island House, I Found my Mentor and my Muse
by Robin Clifford Wood
An aspiring writer finds inspiration and a mentor from the past in an old island home.
