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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Arriving in Bar Harbor

Arriving in Bar Harbor Bar Harbor steamboat landing, ca. 1885Item Contributed byMaine Historic Preservation Commission Arriving at the Bar…

Great Harbor Maritime Museum

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Winter Harbor Historical Society

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Bar Harbor Fire Department

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Southwest Harbor Public Library

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Bar Harbor Historical Society

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Bar Harbor: Building of Arts

… For many summers music lovers came to Bar Harbor with ever increasing numbers. To many it was evident that Bar Harbor had the potential to be more…

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

1930Item Contributed byGreat Harbor Maritime Museum In 1761, Abraham Somes moved his family to Mt. Desert Island and settled at the head of what is…

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Bryants and Rockefellers: Two Seal Harbor Families

The Bryants and Rockefellers: Two Seal Harbor Families Marvin Bryant, Seal Harbor, ca. 1920Item Contributed byTrenton Cemetery & Keeping…

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

Cranberry Lodge (Formerly Harbor Cottage) Northeast Harbor Maine, Winter 2009Item Contributed byNortheast Harbor Library The Old Ell is Born...

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 3 of 3

1955Item Contributed byNortheast Harbor Library The Future That Northeast Harbor is in economic decline, there is no doubt.

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 2 of 3

1980Item Contributed byNortheast Harbor Library Northeast Harbor was spared the devastation of the October 1947 Bar Harbor fire.

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

1980Item Contributed byNortheast Harbor Library Northeast Harbor was one of the last villages on Mount Desert Island to develop a business center.

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - II. Ripples of change: European exploration & settlement at Winter Harbor - Page 2 of 2

… European exploration & settlement at Winter Harbor Piles of logs along the Saco River, ca.

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - II. Ripples of change: European exploration & settlement at Winter Harbor - Page 1 of 2

… European exploration & settlement at Winter Harbor Saco River narrows, Biddeford, ca. 1915McArthur Public Library Biddeford's coastal…

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - MDI and the Fire of 1947

Bar Harbor never regained its standing as the premier spot for vacation homes. Today it is better known with its hotels and B&Bs as a tourist spot…

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Cottagers

… side—Somesville, Southwest Harbor, Northeast Harbor, and Seal Harbor—followed a different course of development than Bar Harbor.

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

… resort, and later the villages of Northeast Harbor and Seal Harbor, the steamboats were essential in transporting not only people, but construction…

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Twentieth-Century Community Life

Twentieth-Century Community Life Bar Harbor and Bar Island, ca. 1930 Bar Harbor, as it appeared in 1930.Item Contributed byMaine Historical…

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators

… Mountain, 1886Item Contributed byAbbe Museum Bar Harbor comes as near affording universal satisfaction to humanity’s craving for happiness as any…

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Inns

Island House and slip, Southwest Harbor, 1893Item Contributed bySouthwest Harbor Public Library Making Accommodations By the mid-1880s, Bar Harbor…

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

… MDI High School, Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor Historical Society, the Jesup Memorial Library, Great Harbor Maritime Museum, Maine Granite…

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Sources For A Short History Of Performing Arts On MDI

Shettleworth. Bar Harbor's Gilded Century: Opulence to Ashes, 1850-1950. Camden, Me.: Down East, 2009. Print.

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - About Us

X Great Harbor Maritime Museum, Northeast Harbor, (207) 276-5262 The Great Harbor Maritime Museum is located in the former Northeast Harbor fire…