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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Bryants and Rockefellers: Two Seal Harbor Families

"… and Marguerite, as well as the passing of Peggy Rockefeller, the relationship between the Bryants and the Rockefellers faded out."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Founding of Acadia National Park

"Rockefeller Jr., an organization was formed to acquire Mount Desert land. They started with a tiny piece in Seal Harbor and a hilltop overlooking…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rusticators come to MDI

"… families including the Vanderbilts, Astors, Rockefellers and Fords spent their summers on MDI."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Welcome and Introduction

"… Fournier (Acadia National Park); Sydney Roberts Rockefeller (Great Harbor Maritime Museum); Catherine Schmidt (Maine Sea Grant); and many others."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Original Mount Desert Island Pilot Project (2006)

"… Railway By: Spenser Simis The Bryants and the Rockefellers: Two Seal Harbor Families By: Eliza Worrick You can get there from here By: Students at…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Indians & Rusticators: Wabanakis & Summer Visitors on Mount Desert Island 1840s-1920s

"… rusticators—such as the Astors, Pulitzers, Rockefellers, Sears, and Vanderbilts—these cottages were magnificent summer homes."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 4 of 6

"Rockefeller, Jr. was forged in 1953 when Charles learned of the clearcutting of trees near Hadlock Pond above Asticou and on land bordering Route 198."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 5 of 6

"John D. Rockefeller Jr. letter to Charles K. Savage, Northeast Harbor, 1957Mount Desert Island Historical Society Charles's collaboration with John…"

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Abbe Museum

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Movies Come To The Island

"… Post), Edsel Ford, or various members of the Rockefeller family. In the decades since its opening and through several different ownerships, the…"