Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Wartime on Mt. Desert Island

"Wartime on Mt. Desert Island Wartime did not pass MDI by. Many of the local men fought in the Revolutionary War and MDI continued to be represented…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economy on Mt. Desert Island

"Economy on Mt. Desert Island Mt. Desert Island was also being recognized as a prime location for businesses."

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…"

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

"Desert became official, encompassing all of Mt. Desert Island, the Cranberry Isles, Bartlett's Island, Robertson's Island and Beech Island."

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 - More Permanent Settlers Arrive

"… of Lincoln and the state of Massachusetts on February 16, 1789. Thirty men signed the oath of allegiance. Early Years on Mt. Desert Island"

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

"In 1761, Somes built his Mt. Desert homestead between the freshwater pond and the fjord which now carry his name."

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

"Desert Island and the mainland. Fishing, farming, and trading were what made the communities productive throughout the late 18th and into the 19th…"

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."

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

"Each of the four towns on MDI has numerous small villages within the town boundaries. Wartime on Mt. Desert Island"

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

"Desert Island and throughout New England at the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor. In 1604 Samuel de Champlain wrote in his journal on September 5, “The…"

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

"… Mount Desert, 1837 The granite mountains of Mount Desert Island have been a landmark to voyagers for 10,000 years.Maine Historical Society Text by…"

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 - Welcome and Introduction

"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 progress…"

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 - 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 - The Development of an Island-wide Identity

"… the schools were united in a consolidated Mount Desert Island High School. The old loyalties did not disappear right away, but in time, the players…"

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

"The island has its enduring and localized family clans, most who settled in the mid-18th century and were immigrants of European descent."

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 - Civil War

"1863Mount Desert Island Historical Society Soon something much worse happened which affected the island greatly -- the Civil War."

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 - Source Materials

"… Architectural Press ‘Images of America Mount Desert Island’ – by Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. and Lydia B."