Maine Memory Network

Rachel Field, Arthur Pederson, Cranberry Isles, 1935

Contributed by: Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Date: 1935 Location: Cranberry Isles Media: Digital image

Net reel at Prebles Cove, Cranberry Isles, 1892

Contributed by: Southwest Harbor Public Library Date: 1892 Location: Cranberry Isles Media: Photographic print

Saltonstall residence site plan, Cranberry Isles, 1984

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1984 Location: Mount Desert Client: David Saltonstall Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates

Ward residence site plan, Cranberry Isles, 1992-1995

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1992–1995 Location: Cranberry Isles Client: Rodman Ward Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates

Great Cranberry Island's Preble House

The Preble House, built in 1827 on a hilltop over Preble Cove on Great Cranberry Island, was the home to several generations of Hadlock, Preble, and Spurling family members -- and featured in several books.

Rebecca Usher: 'To Succor the Suffering Soldiers'

Rebecca Usher of Hollis was 41 and single when she joined the Union nursing service at the U.S. General Hospital at Chester, Pennsylvania. Her time there and later at City Point, Virginia, were defining experiences of her life.

Great Cranberry Island Historical Society

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Northeast Harbor: Rustic to Rusticators

"Desert Island, the Cranberry Isles, Bartlett's Island, Robertson's Island and Beech Island. More than 100 men showed up for the first town meeting."

In an Old, Abandoned Island House, I Found my Mentor and my Muse
by Robin Clifford Wood

An aspiring writer finds inspiration and a mentor from the past in an old island home.