Keywords: Eden
Item 15288
Town of Eden vault door, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Bar Harbor Fire Department Date: circa 1900 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Metal
Item 19395
Grange application, Eden, 1905
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1905 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Ink on paper
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
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.
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Architecture & Landscape database - Lost Gardens of Eden
"Lost Gardens of Eden “Paradise Lost, Paradise Found: the landscape of Mount Desert Island” by Patrick Chassé."
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …next came the artists and rusticators.
"Hoping that the “cool waters of Eden” might invigorate body and soul, vacationers, referred to as rusticators, soon followed the artists."
