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Jordan Pond at Acadia National Park near Bar Harbor. Acadia was the first national park in the eastern United States.

A cut on a mountain road at Acadia National Park, Mt. Desert Island.

"Profile of Acadia, Bar Harbor, Maine" postcard is one of a set of cards entitled, "Scenes of Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine Mt. Desert Island" that are bound together accordion style.

Postcard sets such as this were produced especially for tourists.

The road leading to the summit of Cadillac Mountain at Acadia National Park.

Sieur de Monts Spring, at the entrance to Acadia National Park.

George B. Dorr, a conservation advocate, formed a corporation to buy and conserve land in the Mount Desert Island area. By 1913, the group had purchased some 6,000 acres, which it gave to the federal government. In 1916, this land became Sieur de Monts National Monument.

In 1919, it became Lafayette National Park, the first national park east of the Mississippi. In 1929, the park name changed to Acadia.

George W. French took this photograph is of Cadillac Mountain Road and Frenchman's Bay in Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island.

Cadillac Mountain Road winds 3.5 miles to the summit of Cadillac Mountain. The mountain, 1530 ft in elevation, has the highest peak on U.S. Atlantic Coast.

French, a native of Kezar Falls, worked for the Maine Development Commission from 1936-1955, taking photographs to promote tourism and economic development.

Jordan Pond near Seal Harbor, in Acadia National Park, when the park was known as Lafayette National Park.

Along the shore path, Bar Harbor, Maine postcard is one of a set of cards entitled, "Scenes of Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine" that are bound together accordion style.

The postcard depicts a view of Frenchman's Bay from the Cadillac Mountain road at Acadia National Park, Mt. Desert Island.

Postcard of Acadia National Park showing the Bowl, ca. 1930.

This postcard is one of a set of cards entitled, "Scenes of Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine Mt. Desert Island" that are bound together accordion style.

This postcard of Bridge Over Duck Brook, Bar Harbor, is one of a set of cards entitled, "Scenes of Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine" that are bound together accordion style.

Stone steps on Emery Path, Bar Harbor.

This postcard is one of a set entitled, "Scenes of Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine Mt. Desert Island."

Cadillac Mountain Road and Eagle Lake, Bar Harbor, Maine postcard is one of a set of cards entitled, "Scenes of Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine" that are bound together accordion style.

Bar Harbor from Bar Island showing Cadillac Mt. This postcard is one of a set of cards entitled, "Scenes of Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine Mt. Desert Island" that are bound together accordion style.

Postcard entitled, "South along shore from Great Head, Bar Harbor, Me."

This postcard is one of a set of cards entitled, "Scenes of Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine Mt. Desert Island" that are bound together accordion style.

Thunder Hole, Bar Harbor, postcard is one of a set of cards entitled, "Scenes of Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine Mt. Desert Island" that are bound together accordion style.

Periodically, a booming sound is created at this rock formation as tidal waters wash in and out.

Great Head (highest point on Atlantic Coast), Bar Harbor, postcard is one of a set of cards entitled, "Scenes of Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine Mt. Desert Island" that are bound together accordion style. Postcard sets such as this were produced especially for tourists.

Cadillac Mountain road and Jordan Pond, Mt. Desert Island, are featured as part of a set of cards entitled, "Scenes of Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine Mt. Desert Island" that are bound together accordion style.

Postcard entitled, "Bubble Pond from new mountain road, Bar Harbor, Maine," ca. 1930.

This postcard is one of a set of cards entitled, "Scenes of Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine Mt. Desert Island" that are bound together accordion style.

Sieur de Monts Spring in Bar Harbor is featured on a postcard that is part of a series, "Scenes of Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine, Mt. Desert Island."

Cathedral Rock, Bar Harbor, Maine, Mt. Desert Island postcard is one of a set of cards entitled, "Scenes of Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine Mt. Desert Island" that are bound together accordian style. Postcard sets such as this were produced especially for tourists.

The Bubble Pond stone bridge is one of many bridges in Acadia National Park. The bridge's stone facing is made of granite that was quarried locally from Mount Desert Island. John D. Rockefeller Jr. financed Acadia's carriage roads and bridges from 1913-1940.

George W. French, who took the photograph, was a Maine Development Commission photographer hired to promote the state's tourism industry.

A postcard entitled, "Rocky Point at Salisbury Cove, Bar Harbor, Maine," is part of a set of postcards of Bar Harbor, Mt. Desert Island, and Acadia National Park.

This is probably "star cave," located on shoreline of the current campus of Mt. Desert Island Biological Lab.

Jordan Pond path and South Bubble, Bar Harbor, Maine postcard is one of a set of cards entitled, "Scenes of Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine" that are bound together accordion style. Postcard sets such as this were produced especially for tourists.

The postcard entitled "Long Pond from Rockefeller Road, Bar Harbor, Maine" is one of a set of cards entitled, "Scenes of Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine Mt. Desert Island" that are bound together accordion style.

The road is now called the Cadillac Mountain Road.

Baron Jean Vincent de St. Castin was born in France and served in the French military in Acadia in the early 17th century.

He married a Penobscot woman, Pidianiske (baptized as Molly Mathilde) and was active in the beaver fur trade, establishing a trading post at Castine.

He engaged in many military skirmishes against the English for dominance over land in Nova Scotia and northern Maine between 1665 and 1712.

A postcard shows Bay Drive entering Bar Harbor. It is part of a bound set of scenes of the area.

A postcard of Bar Harbor and Bar Island from the air, ca. 1930

It is part of a set of scenes of the Bar Harbor, Mt. Desert area.

The postcard is entitled, "Shore path showing Balance Rock and Bar Island, Bar Harbor, Maine," ca. 1930.

It was part of a bound set of postcards.

The British government required the Acadians to file "articles of submission" to show their allegiance to England.

In this document, William Johnson. Charles Johnson, Claud Sonia and Nora Labeauve of Pokamuch in Acadia, give their submission to Joseph Frye. Part of the agreement includes turning in their firearms.

Mayor James P. Baxter requested this map of the Western Promenade in Portland. It was made by the landscape architecture firm Olmsted Brothers in 1905.

It was among the maps of Portland's planned park system that were included in Baxter's book, The Park System of Portland.

Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) was one of America's foremost landscape architects, and his firm, the Olmsted Brothers, designed Portland's Eastern and Western Promenades, the grounds of the Governor's mansion in Augusta, State House and Capitol Park in Augusta, and the motor roads of Acadia National Park, among their projects.