A sailing tour up Somes Sound, the only true fjord on the Atlantic Coast, noting geographical and historic landmarks such geographical landmarks and historic places such as the village of Somesville, Hall Quarry, and Valley Cove. Published in Down East Magazine, June 1980.
Description: A sailing tour up Somes Sound, the only true fjord on the Atlantic Coast, noting geographical and historic landmarks such geographical landmarks and historic places such as the village of Somesville, Hall Quarry, and Valley Cove. Published in Down East Magazine, June 1980.
Lot map, 20x15 1/2", tissue, showing properties of Sanders and Scott on eastside of Somes Sound. From 1871 geodetic survey. Shows Thomas Rd, Thomas property (Clara Fargo Thomas), Bar Island/Pryor's Island, Sheep Island, Bordeaux, Little Squantum Cove.
Description: Lot map, 20x15 1/2", tissue, showing properties of Sanders and Scott on eastside of Somes Sound. From 1871 geodetic survey. Shows Thomas Rd, Thomas property (Clara Fargo Thomas), Bar Island/Pryor's Island, Sheep Island, Bordeaux, Little Squantum Cove.
Lot map-2 blueprints and 1 parchment tracing, 21x25 1/2", of properties belonging to Grindle, Hale, Higgens, Hamor, Rich, Somes adjoining property of Budreaux in Somesville at the head of the sound.
Description: Lot map-2 blueprints and 1 parchment tracing, 21x25 1/2", of properties belonging to Grindle, Hale, Higgens, Hamor, Rich, Somes adjoining property of Budreaux in Somesville at the head of the sound.
Blueprint, 27x21 1/2", of property lots on Somes Sound between Brown's Cove and Sargeant Cove extending from the Sound across Sargeant Drive to east of the county road. Enlarged from U.S. C & G. survey chart.
Description: Blueprint, 27x21 1/2", of property lots on Somes Sound between Brown's Cove and Sargeant Cove extending from the Sound across Sargeant Drive to east of the county road. Enlarged from U.S. C & G. survey chart.
Description: The farm in middle distance is the Corson farm, whose fields became the golf course. The farmhouse was moved and is now "Millbrook Cottage"
Description: From Sargeant Drive. Photographs 79 through 85 appear to be a progression along Sargeant Drive, possibly taken when the drive was newly constructed
Taken from bridge at Babson's Brook, formerly Kitteredge Brook, looking into Somesville Harbor. The farm in the background was built by John Parker around 1842.
Description: Taken from bridge at Babson's Brook, formerly Kitteredge Brook, looking into Somesville Harbor. The farm in the background was built by John Parker around 1842.
One of 9 photographs of the Northeast Harbor area taken in the 1880's during encampments by the Champlain Society. "As far as I am able to tell by carrying the picture to the site, a combination of reforestation and the cutting down of a hill to make the intersection of routes 3 and 233, this photo is not quite possible to replicate. The poles carried telegraph wires." Tom Eliot
Description: One of 9 photographs of the Northeast Harbor area taken in the 1880's during encampments by the Champlain Society. "As far as I am able to tell by carrying the picture to the site, a combination of reforestation and the cutting down of a hill to make the intersection of routes 3 and 233, this photo is not quite possible to replicate. The poles carried telegraph wires." Tom Eliot