Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"… Society The human history of Mount Desert Island began thousands of years ago when the ancestors of the Wabanaki people came to the place they…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Years on Mt. Desert Island

"Early Years on Mt. Desert Island Higgins Saw Mill, Somesville, 1890 Higgins Saw Mill which is believed to have been located in…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Learn More

"Asticou's Island Domain: Wabanki Peoples at Mount Desert Island, 1500-2000, by Harald E.L. Prins and Bunny McBride, 2007 (Acadia National Park…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Student Narrative of MDI History

"In 1604 Samuel de Champlain wrote in his journal on September 5, “The same day we passed also near to an island about four or five leagues long, in…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - You Can Get Here From There

"With the development of Bar Harbor as a summer resort, and later the villages of Northeast Harbor and Seal Harbor, the steamboats were essential in…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Welcome and Introduction

"Photo by W.H. Ballard, circa 1940. X The history of Mount Desert Island, as seen through the lens of the Maine Memory Network, has been a work in…"

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

"Somesville and mid-island, with the extended Pray, Somes, Richardson, and Higgins clans, and Tremont with its Reeds, Goodwins, Lawsons, and Murphys…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rusticators come to MDI

"Desert Island. Artists, including Frederick Church, came to the island to visit, and took away beautiful images of places on MDI."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Basketball: From Rivals to Teammates

"Bar Harbor and Pemetic in Southwest Harbor served their communities until consolidation. The name "Mount Desert High School" has a more complicated…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Of The Arts Era

"… Bar Harbor Casino A Play at the Bar Harbor CasinoBar Harbor Historical Society Lillian Gish at the Bar Harbor PlayhouseNortheast…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Guiding Services for Sport Hunters

"… Sport Hunters Wabanaki guides with canoes, Bar Harbor, 1881Abbe Museum Many Wabanaki men at the Bar Harbor encampments made themselves…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Civil War

"It lasted from 1861 to 1865, and because of it, much changed. Some island men went into the infantry or Navy."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

"… Society, Mount Desert Island, 1881Mount Desert Island Historical Society The origins of conservation on Mount Desert Island can be traced to a…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes

"… going to church “looked like a bird-of-paradise in a barn-yard.” From Bar Harbor Days, by Mrs. Burton Harrison, 1887. Continue to Big Thunder"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Wabanaki Today

"… the cultural or physical makeup of Mount Desert Island; however the Wabanaki have continued to have a presence here, as residents, visitors…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …next came the artists and rusticators.

"… which is in the soul like a fountain of cool waters to the way-worn travelers. -Thomas Cole, painter, 1836 Continue to Arriving in Bar Harbor"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …then came the settlers…

"By 1789, they had incorporated the entire island as Mount Desert Township. Several years later, they divided the island in two, marking the area east…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 4 of 6

"The 1947 island fire had ravaged Bar Harbor and brought an end to much of the already declining wealthy summer colony there while hardly touching the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Permanent Settlement

"… but were leaders in the governmental life of the island for many years. Governor Bernard’s choice of these two men to be founders of the township…"

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

"More than 100 men showed up for the first town meeting. In May of 1795, the Town of Eden separated from Mt. Desert, giving the Island two towns."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Founding of Acadia National Park

"… fresh air and sunshine to the body."Mount Desert Island Historical Society The island's growing popularity raised concern, mainly among summer…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Source Materials

"… help and assistance from the Mount Desert Island Historical Society and the Northeast Harbor Library, the author gives thanks in particular the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Third Generation and Beyond

"… descent to make a homestead on Mount Desert Island. The Manchester family first settled in 1775 near present day Manchester Point at the mouth and…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Green Mountain Railway

"On Mt. Desert Island Green Mountain (now called Cadillac) was one of the most beautiful spots for miles. Frances H."