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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 100918

Champlain Society camp log, Northeast Harbor, 1884

Contributed by: Mount Desert Island Historical Society Date: 1884 Location: Mount Desert Media: Ink on paper, bound book

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Item 100480

Champlain Society Camp Asticou Log, Northeast Harbor, 1883

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

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Architecture & Landscape

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Item 151277

Asticou Azalea Garden, Mount Desert, 1982-1992

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1982–1992 Location: Mount Desert Client: The Island Foundation Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates
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Item 151832

Richard Rockefeller residence, Bartlett Island, 2004

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2004 Location: Mount Desert Client: Richard G. Rockefeller Architect: J. W.; Roc Caivano Architects

Item 151278

Asti-Kim Corp., Mount Desert, 1981-1982

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1981–1982 Location: Mount Desert; Mount Desert Client: Asti-Kim Corporation Architect: Landscape Design Associates

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

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.

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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.

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 - Rustication

"… preferred means of travel to Mount Desert Island.Mount Desert Island Historical Society It was the arrival of these rusticators, as they called…"