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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."

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."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Learn More

"… online at: Asticou's Island Domain Indians in Eden: Wabanakis and Rusticators on Maine's Mount Desert Island, 1840s-1920s, by Bunny McBride and…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Division of MDI Begins

"… of Mount Desert into two towns and incorporating Eden as a separate town. The first church was started in 1792."

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

"… and buildings, such as the Building of Arts, in Eden. They were instrumental with the development of Lafayette Park, now known as Acadia National…"

Blue Hill, Maine - A New Look at an Old Painting

"Figuratively – in its depiction of an Edenic place made secure for the sunbonneted women on the left, as the male figure in the foreground drives a…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 5 of 5

"Clayton Laplant Jed Beach, Thesis “Outside Eden”, 2003 Ruth Kidder Papers, DHS Coll.#139 "Bicentennial Calendar", information from DHS Archives, 2003…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Cottagers

"Walley’s summer villa, on Eden Street, last Tuesday night. The first of the place were there. There were the cottage aristocracy, the rich and…"

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

"In May of 1795, the Town of Eden separated from Mt. Desert, giving the Island two towns. By 1800, many people were living on the Island, and many of…"

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

"… in two, marking the area east of Somes Sound as Eden. Fancy porcupine-weave basket, Penobscot, 1862Abbe Museum Living in scattered homesteads…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators

"… a better field for enjoyment than in this little Eden. -Sherman’s Bar Harbor Guide, 1890 Nature’s Pleasures Once unpacked and settled in…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"Four years later, Eden split from the Town of Mount Desert. (It did not change its name to Bar Harbor until 1918.) Island life was improving -- and…"

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

"… its first white settlers the Higgins, Thomas, and Eden families. Somesville and mid-island, with the extended Pray, Somes, Richardson, and Higgins…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 1 of 3

"… of occupations, as it began in the Garden of Eden. Aurora Grange, 1910Strong Historical Society Local Granges, called Subordinates in the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"… was because this family, "like most families in Eden, had always made good use of what lay to hand. Mr. and Mrs."