Keywords: Southwest Harbor
Item 16452
View from the Castle, Southwest Harbor, 1890
Contributed by: Southwest Harbor Public Library Date: 1890 Location: Southwest Harbor Media: Photographic print
Item 16450
Dirigo Hotel, Southwest Harbor, 1893
Contributed by: Southwest Harbor Public Library Date: 1893-09-04 Location: Southwest Harbor Media: Photographic print
Item 110438
Bengur residence base plan, Southwest Harbor, 1986
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1986 Location: Southwest Harbor Client: Bengur, Architect: Patrick Chasse
Item 110476
Felton residence, Southwest Harbor, 1991-1992
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1991–1992 Location: Southwest Harbor Client: Elise Felton, Architect: Landscape Design Associates
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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.
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From the last decades of the nineteenth century through about the 1920s, vacationers were attracted to large resort hotels that promised a break from the noise, crowds, and pressures of an ever-urbanizing country.
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Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Arriving in Bar Harbor
"That changed when store and innkeeper Tobias Roberts built a simple wooden wharf at the end of Main Street in Bar Harbor, making it possible for the…"