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Historical Items

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Item 100477

Champlain Society Meeting Records, Mount Desert Island, 1882-1883

Contributed by: Mount Desert Island Historical Society Date: 1882–1883 Location: Northeast Harbor Media: Bound book, Ink on paper

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Item 101881

Champlain Society Meteorological Records, Northeast Harbor, 1879

Contributed by: Mount Desert Island Historical Society Date: 1879 Location: Mount Desert; Bar Harbor Media: Ink on paper, bound

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Item 22223

Mt. Desert High School, Northeast Harbor, ca. 1950

Contributed by: Great Harbor Maritime Museum Date: circa 1950 Location: Mount Desert Media: Photographic print

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 109170

A Consolidated High School of Mount Desert, Mount Desert, 1940-1944

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1940–1944 Location: Mount Desert Client: Town of Mount Desert Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell

Item 110468

Village Green restoration plan, Mount Desert, 1999-2000

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1999–2000 Location: Mount Desert Client: Town of Mount Desert Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates

Item 110443

Rosecliff Greenhouses, Mount Desert, 1994

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1994 Location: Mount Desert Client: unknown Architect: Roc Caivano Architects

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

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.

Exhibit

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.

Exhibit

For the Union: Civil War Deaths

More than 9,000 Maine soldiers and sailors died during the Civil War while serving with Union forces. This exhibit tells the stories of a few of those men.

Site Pages

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Original Mount Desert Island Pilot Project (2006)

"Student narrative history of Mount Desert Island. Northeast Harbor: From Rustic to Rusticators By: Willie Granston The Granite Industry By: Mark…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - A Short History of Mount Desert Island

"… Introduction Granite mountains, Mount Desert, 1837 The granite mountains of Mount Desert Island have been a landmark to voyagers for 10,000…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Savage Family of Mount Desert

"The Savage Family of Mount Desert Augustus Chase Savage & Family, Northeast Harbor, ca. 1890Mount Desert Island Historical Society Text by…"