Maine Memory Network

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."

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 - 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…"

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 - 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 - 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 - Rustication

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

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…"