Maine Memory Network

Bar Harbor Cottages, ca. 1915

Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: circa 1915 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Postcard

Dr. Robert on Duck Brook, Bar Harbor, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Abbe Museum Date: circa 1920 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Photographic print

Mr. Edgar Scott boathouse, Bar Harbor, 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1900 Location: Bar Harbor Client: Edgar Scott Architect: Frederick L. Savage

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.

Summer Folk: The Postcard View

Vacationers, "rusticators," or tourists began flooding into Maine in the last quarter of the 19th century. Many arrived by train or steamer. Eventually, automobiles expanded and changed the tourist trade, and some vacationers bought their own "cottages."

Bar Harbor Historical Society

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"1980Northeast Harbor Library Northeast Harbor was one of the last villages on Mount Desert Island to develop a business center."

History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby

This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars