Maine Memory Network

Champlain Society Camp Pemetic, Mount Desert Island, 1881

Contributed by: Mount Desert Island Historical Society Date: 1881 Location: Northeast Harbor Media: Photographic print

Champlain Society Camp Pemetic, Mount Desert Island, 1881

Contributed by: Mount Desert Island Historical Society Date: 1881 Location: Northeast Harbor Media: Photographic print

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.

400 years of New Mainers

Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 2 of 2

"… Champlain Society Champlain Society Camp Pemetic, Mount Desert Island, 1881Mount Desert Island Historical Society Significance of the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

"On July 4 they established “Camp Pemetic” on Wasgatt Cove in Northeast Harbor, just south of where Hadlock Brook empties into Somes Sound."