Keywords: Bar Harbor Congregational Church
Item 19201
The Congregational and Episcopal Churches in Bar Harbor, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: circa 1920 Location: Bar Harbor; Eden Media: Postcard
Item 23988
Congregational Church and Episcopal Church, Bar Harbor ca. 1910
Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: circa 1910 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Postcard
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.
Exhibit
Scientist, author and explorer Donald B. MacMillan established Wiscasset as his homeport for many of the voyages he made to the Arctic region starting in the early 1920s.
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce
"Finally, in 1800 islanders voted to build two meeting houses, the Congregational on the Bass Harbor Road in Southwest Harbor, and the Baptist, on…"
Site Page
"… started as members of the local church congregation in Northeast and Seal Harbors, perhaps as early as 1935. Charles carefully watched Mr."
Story
History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
