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Keywords: Mt. Desert Island
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Item 17375
Title: Mt. Desert Island Hospital
Contributed by: Mt. Desert Island Hospital
Date: circa 1920
Location: Bar Harbor
Media: Photograph Postcard
Item 22262
Title: Jordan Pond and the Bubbles, Mt. Desert Island, ca. 1940
Contributed by: Great Harbor Maritime Museum
Date: circa 1940
Location: Mount Desert; Mt. Desert
Media: Postcard
Item 22223
Title: Mt. Desert High School, Northeast Harbor, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Great Harbor Maritime Museum
Date: circa 1950
Location: Mount Desert
Media: Photograph
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Exhibit
In 1857, when Daniel Cough left Amoy Island, China, as a stowaway on a sailing ship from Mt. Desert Island he was on his way into history as the first Chinese person to make his home in Maine. He was soon followed by a cigar maker and a tea merchant who settled in Portland and then by many more Chinese men who spread all over Maine working mostly as laundrymen.
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Site
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature
Highlights from the history of what is perhaps the most popular tourist destination in Maine. The site was created by a partnership between MDI High School, Mount Desert Elementary School, and a number of supporting organizations: Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor Historical Society, the Jesup Memorial Library, Great Harbor Maritime Museum, and the Maine Granite Industry Historical Society. Exhibits cover Northeast Harbor, the Granite industry, Bar Harbor’s Building of Arts, the Green Mountain Railway, the Bryants and the Rockefellers, and steamboats.
Site
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