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

"Arriving in Bar Harbor Bar Harbor steamboat landing, ca. 1885Maine Historic Preservation Commission Arriving at the Bar Harbor wharf…"

Bar Harbor Historical Society

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

"… was spared the devastation of the October 1947 Bar Harbor fire. However, the village has been far from immune to the impact of major fires."

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

"Rock End Hotel, Northeast Harbor, ca. 1917Northeast Harbor Library In the 21st century, these trends have been exacerbated."

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

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

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Lodging and Hotels: A Savage Family Business

"… A Savage Family Business Savage Family Hotel Page Images -III Click here to see pictures and read about the hotels and inns of the Savage…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Cottagers

"Bird’s eye view of Bar Harbor in the heyday of hotels, cottages and Indian encampments, 1886 Bird's-eye view maps like this 1886 panorama of Bar…"

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 - Inns

"After that, the hotel race was on – and Bar Harbor won. Island House and slip, Southwest Harbor, 1893Southwest Harbor Public Library Making…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators

"… Newport (Champlain) Mountain, 1886Abbe Museum Bar Harbor comes as near affording universal satisfaction to humanity’s craving for happiness as any…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"The Rockaway Hotel, Bar Harbor, ca. 1910Mount Desert Island Historical Society Rusticators had started arriving soon after steamer service was…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Depression, War, and Fire

"Depression, War, and Fire Belmont Hotel, Bar Harbor, ca. 1910Jesup Memorial Library The Bar Harbor summer colony reached its peak after the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rusticators on the Rise

"Robert on Duck Brook, Bar Harbor, ca. 1920Abbe Museum At first they came solely for scenery and climate, drawn by the island’s dramatic geography…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Indians & Rusticators: Wabanakis & Summer Visitors on Mount Desert Island 1840s-1920s

"Wabanaki encampment, Bar Harbor, ca. 1890Abbe Museum In the olden days, from about 1860 to 1900, I well remember that Indian encampments were the…"

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

"… Reed, Worcester, and Corson descendants while Bar Harbor counts among its first white settlers the Higgins, Thomas, and Eden families."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born

"According to a Bar Harbor Record newspaper article dated 1898 and entitled "Harbor Cottage. An Old Landmark Which is Being Remodeled," A.C."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Green Mountain Railway

"Green Mountain had been the site of a hotel since about 1866 when Daniel Brewer create a carriage trail to the top and built a hotel."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 2 of 6

"… Charles was thrown into managing the family hotel business with his mother, Mabelle Strout Savage (1877-1965), at the young age of 19 when he was…"

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

"… 1800’s and early 1900’s saw the building of large hotels and many large summer “cottages”. This time period is sometimes referred to as the heyday…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - IV. Transitions and troubles: Private enterprise shoulders an island’s needs

"Because, you know, Bar Harbor, Northeast… those are people with money." Interactions between seasonal and year-round residents varied, but there has…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Lost Gardens of Eden

"Bar Harbor was called Eden for 1796 to 1918, and the last fifty years of that period was in many ways a “Golden Age” of architectural and garden…"

Mt. Desert Island Hospital

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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - 1925 National Governors' Association Convention

"… the Navy Airship Shenandoah, which took them from Bar Harbor to Passamaquoddy Bay, to Mt. Katahdin, Moosehead Lake, Rangley Lake, as well as…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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