Maine Memory Network

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

"Student narrative history of Mount Desert Island. Northeast Harbor: From Rustic to Rusticators By: Willie Granston The Granite Industry By: Mark…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - A Short History of Mount Desert Island

"… Introduction Granite mountains, Mount Desert, 1837 The granite mountains of Mount Desert Island have been a landmark to voyagers for 10,000…"

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

"The Savage Family of Mount Desert Augustus Chase Savage & Family, Northeast Harbor, ca. 1890Mount Desert Island Historical Society Text by…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

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

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 - Rustication

"… was the preferred means of travel to Mount Desert Island.Mount Desert Island Historical Society It was the arrival of these rusticators, as they…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - About Us

"… X Mount Desert Island Historical Society, Mount Desert, (207) 276-9323 The Mount Desert Island Historical Society keeps, discovers, and…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Inns

"1900Jesup Memorial Library The list of Mount Desert Island inns is long and legendary. It begins modestly with the island’s first public house…"

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

"A Short History Of Performing Arts On Mount Desert Island Text by Gina Sabatani and Taylor Thomas-Marsh Nestled alongside Maine's central coast, the…"

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 - More Permanent Settlers Arrive

"… original town records for the Plantation of Mount Desert -- now Mount Desert Island -- still exist and copies can be found in the local libraries."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Cottagers

"1900Jesup Memorial Library As Mount Desert Island’s visitor count rose, many wealthy rusticators opted for greater luxury and privacy and built…"

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

"… came the settlers… Granite mountains, Mount Desert, 1837Maine Historical Society While exploring Mount Desert as a place “to carry on the…"

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

"-Mount Desert Herald, 10/11/1883 Before 1857, steamboat service to Mount Desert Island had just one port of call: Southwest Harbor."

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

"It included all of Mount Desert Island, as well as the Cranberries and Bartlett's and some smaller islands."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Source Materials

"Savage and the Architecture of Mount Desert’ – by John M. Bryan, copyright 2005, Princeton Architectural Press ‘Images of America Mount Desert…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Wabanaki Today

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

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

"… From There Before cars were allowed on Mount Desert Island, steamboats were the primary mode of transportation to Mount Desert."

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

"… Rusticators: Wabanakis & Summer Visitors on Mount Desert Island 1840s-1920s Adapted from an exhibit at the Abbe Museum ; narrative text by exhibit…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Performance

"1884Abbe Museum Mount Desert Island began to change both culturally and geographically beginning in the 1500s as European settlements began to…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment

"-Chisholm’s Mount Desert Guide, 1888 Indian Encampment advertisement, 1880s X Wabanakis who traveled to Mount Desert Island were entrepreneurial…"

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

"… Library In the 1790 census of the town of Mount Desert which included the outer islands, there were 132 heads of families for a total of…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Civil War

"… times that ever I see.” The population of Mount Desert Island fell by more than six percent during the war years, the result of military and…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators

"Desert Reading Room, Bar Harbor, grew out of the town’s first club, the Oasis (founded in 1874) where men gathered to drink and talk."