Keywords: Bar Harbor town pier
Item 19210
Municipal Pier, Bar Harbor, ca. 1940
Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: circa 1940 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Postcard
Item 19211
Waterfront Park in Bar Harbor, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: circa 1930 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Postcard
Exhibit
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.
Exhibit
Port of Portland's Custom House and Collectors of Customs
The collector of Portland was the key to federal patronage in Maine, though other ports and towns had collectors. Through the 19th century, the revenue was the major source of Federal Government income. As in Colonial times, the person appointed to head the custom House in Casco Bay was almost always a leading community figure, or a well-connected political personage.
Story
History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
Story
The only letter to survive World War II
by Cyrene Slegona
Only one of many letters my father sent to his wife remained after he came home from World War II.