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1527Remembrances of Mount Desert
  • Publication, Book, Journal, Diary
  • Organizations, Religious
  • Other, History
  • People
  • Places, Island
Typewritten diary of Mrs. Charles Hamlin covers years between 1880's and early 1900's. Much information about Rev. William Doane; other families covered: Gardiner, Corning, Eliot. Social perspective of Northeast Harbor. Info re St. Mary's.
  • Charles S. Hamlin
  • 1934-1935
  • 41
  • typescript (2 copies)
Description:
Typewritten diary of Mrs. Charles Hamlin covers years between 1880's and early 1900's. Much information about Rev. William Doane; other families covered: Gardiner, Corning, Eliot. Social perspective of Northeast Harbor. Info re St. Mary's.
1722Mount Desert Island Facts
  • Document, List
  • Other, History
  • People
  • Places, Island
...General facts, statistics, historical and political information of Mount Desert Island...
  • 4
Description:
...General facts, statistics, historical and political information of Mount Desert Island...
1936Ensign Ben Bunker, Mount Desert, and The Cranberry Isles
  • Publication, Other Publication
  • Other, History
  • People
  • Places, Island
This is a second in a series of Occasional Papers to be published under the auspices of the Islesford Historical Society. It was given to Anne Haynes who gave it to the Northeast Harbor Library.
  • Theodore Spurling Sr.
  • Aug-91
  • 19
  • typescript
Description:
This is a second in a series of Occasional Papers to be published under the auspices of the Islesford Historical Society. It was given to Anne Haynes who gave it to the Northeast Harbor Library.
1958Bar Harbor, Celebrating 200 Years in Eden
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • Events
  • Other, History
  • People
  • Places, Island
  • Places, Park
  • Places, Town
...An island on fire 6. An education in ecology 7. Searching for a rustic life 8. A Cottage culture 9. A tale of Two Labs 10...Maps of Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island Magazine available in the Archives...
  • Mark Condon
  • 2001
  • 48
  • magazine
Description:
...An island on fire 6. An education in ecology 7. Searching for a rustic life 8. A Cottage culture 9. A tale of Two Labs 10...Maps of Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island Magazine available in the Archives...
1997A Playground Contested; Bar Harbor Natives versus Rusticators, 1875-1925
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Other, History
  • People
  • Places, Island
...Manion submitted for publication in Island History Journal contrasting the economic and social life of summer and year-round residents of Mount Desert...Island...
  • Lynne Nelson Manion
  • 2001
  • 18
  • typescript
Description:
...Manion submitted for publication in Island History Journal contrasting the economic and social life of summer and year-round residents of Mount Desert...Island...
2049Manchester and Branscom Family History
  • Document, Legal, Deed
  • Other, History
  • People
  • Places, Island
  • Places, Town
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Vessels, Steamboat
...Contents of Curtis Phelps Collection: CD1: - Main Street: 5 B/W images of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - 13 images of Northeast Harbor and Mount...Desert area: 1...Steamer Mount Desert...
  • 17 pages, 2 CDs
Description:
...Contents of Curtis Phelps Collection: CD1: - Main Street: 5 B/W images of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - 13 images of Northeast Harbor and Mount...Desert area: 1...Steamer Mount Desert...
5409Bart Dyer on defense cannon at Schooner Head
  • Image, Photograph
  • Other, History
  • Other, Military, World War I
  • People
B/W photograph of Bart Dyer sitting on a coastal defense cannon at Schooner Head. The cannon, and another on Egg Rock, were in place during WWI.
  • Fred Pervear
  • 1938
Description:
B/W photograph of Bart Dyer sitting on a coastal defense cannon at Schooner Head. The cannon, and another on Egg Rock, were in place during WWI.
5423Local Civil War Soldiers
  • Image, Photograph
  • Other, History
  • Other, Military, Civil War
  • People
Scanned photographs of area Maine Militia and Civil War soldiers. Photo 1829 a: Colonel William Edwin Hadlock, Little Cranberry Isle Photo 1829 b: Samuel T. Savage, enlisted 8-21-1862 Photo 1829 c: Augustus Chase Savage, Acting Lieutenant, US Navy 1864-1865 Photo 1829 d: Thomas Savage, 1842-1865 (from a tintype) See item 2051/GEN 0565
  • 1842-1860's
Description:
Scanned photographs of area Maine Militia and Civil War soldiers. Photo 1829 a: Colonel William Edwin Hadlock, Little Cranberry Isle Photo 1829 b: Samuel T. Savage, enlisted 8-21-1862 Photo 1829 c: Augustus Chase Savage, Acting Lieutenant, US Navy 1864-1865 Photo 1829 d: Thomas Savage, 1842-1865 (from a tintype) See item 2051/GEN 0565
6103Memorial of Champlain Discoverer of Mt. Desert, 1604-1904
  • Publication, Book
  • Object, Site Marker, Monument
  • Other, History
  • People
  • Places, Island
...Grey booklet about the memorial to Samuel de Champlain, discoverer of Mount Desert Island...
  • 1906
  • 1 book
Description:
...Grey booklet about the memorial to Samuel de Champlain, discoverer of Mount Desert Island...
6181Geology of Mount Desert Island
  • Document, Other Documents
  • People
...Stapled excerpt from SECOND ANNUAL REPORT UPON THE NATURAL HISTORY AND GEOLOGY OF THE STATE OF MAINE (in this collection), plus indexes & reading lists...
Description:
...Stapled excerpt from SECOND ANNUAL REPORT UPON THE NATURAL HISTORY AND GEOLOGY OF THE STATE OF MAINE (in this collection), plus indexes & reading lists...
6185Eben M. Hamor Manuscript - Books 1 & 2
  • Document, Genealogy Records
  • People
...From Raymond Strout collection. records of the Plantation and Town of Mount Desert and Bar Harbor to 1825. Typescript...
  • Eben M. Hamor
Description:
...From Raymond Strout collection. records of the Plantation and Town of Mount Desert and Bar Harbor to 1825. Typescript...


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…reeholdera and othe1'1 inhabitants .or the Island of Mount Desert and ths Oranberry and Placentia Islands, to assemble and meet together at the House …s Island and Doech Island together with the Inhabitants thereof be and they are hereby Inoorpor.ated into a Town by the name or Mount Desert, and Whereas …Aonsier and Madame De Gregoire all auch parts and parcels of the Island of Mount Desert, and tho other Islands and tracts of land particularly descri …Kittridge 1Ls the only Physician on the Island of Mount Desert.

6185 bk. 2.pdf
…When I commenced looking up the history or Uount Desert and den, I found this Old Record Book in tho /Mount Desert Clerk's office in bad condition, …some othera, early residents or the Island of Mount Desert. …Mount Desert as follows. …incorporated into the tow of Ede the island of Mount Desert lying mentioned Bar Island, Green Islands, Black Island, Thompson's Isl hd and Sheep Porcupine
6189MDI History
  • Document, Genealogy Records
  • People
...Mount Desert Island, from "Traditions and Records", Nellie C. Thornton 4. Excerpts of "The European Discovery of America", S. E. Morison 5...Morison "The Story of Mount Desert Island" 14. "The European Discovery", excerpted from S. E...Morison "The Story of Mount Desert Island" 15. unspecified 16...Records of the First Church of Mount Desert, 1792-1867 21. Valuation Notes 1831-1880 22. Meeting notes, West Eden May 7, 189? 23...
Description:
...Mount Desert Island, from "Traditions and Records", Nellie C. Thornton 4. Excerpts of "The European Discovery of America", S. E. Morison 5...Morison "The Story of Mount Desert Island" 14. "The European Discovery", excerpted from S. E...Morison "The Story of Mount Desert Island" 15. unspecified 16...Records of the First Church of Mount Desert, 1792-1867 21. Valuation Notes 1831-1880 22. Meeting notes, West Eden May 7, 189? 23...
6194Salisbury genealogy
  • Document, Genealogy Records
  • People
...Photocopies of the Mount Desert Island Salisbury families. Taken from the Salisbury family records. Available at Jesup Library...
  • Robert Perry Salisbury
Description:
...Photocopies of the Mount Desert Island Salisbury families. Taken from the Salisbury family records. Available at Jesup Library...


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…The two daughter's married and remained at Sackville, while Ebenezer and his three sons removed to Mount Desert Island 1764. …He was the first Salsbury that settled on this Island of Mount Desert. "Old Uncle Ebenezer Salsbury" died about 1786. …Reuben Salsbury (1750-1816) married Abigail Bunker, they lived at MDI, were for a time on Ironbound Island, and died at Lamoine; they had 7 children.

6194 b.pdf
Desert Island, ME, about 1772. Changed spelling of his surname to Salsbury. 0330 Joseph. b. 17 Jan 1705/6 at Rehoboth, MA. m. …Desert Island, ME, about 1772. d. 12 Feb 1816. m. Abigail, dau of Benjamin, Sr., & Abigail (Adams) Bunker, on 30 Jun 1777 at Mt. Desert, ME. …NOTE: From "VITAL RECORDS OF MOUNT DESERT ISLAND .... 1776-1820" May ye 31st 1777 X Ebenezer Salsburys Cattles marks a hole in ye right ear May ye 31st …Ebenezer's daughters, Suzannah and Bathsheba both married other settlers and remained behind when the family relocated to Mount Desert It Island, Maine
6200Sawtelle notes
  • Document, Genealogy Records
  • Organizations, Religious
  • People
...Notes from a history of the Baptists in Maine as related to Mount Desert Island and Cranberry Isles...
  • William Otis Sawtelle (1874-1939)
  • 7
Description:
...Notes from a history of the Baptists in Maine as related to Mount Desert Island and Cranberry Isles...
6228Bunker's Genealogy
  • Document, Genealogy Records
  • People
"Bunker Genealogy: Descendants of James Bunker of Dover, N. H.", by Moran Jr. Edward Carleton Moran Jr. Bunker, from Sawtelle Records. Archive copy: phocopied by Louise Pyle, original owned by Robert Pyle. Uploaded copy: from archive.org
Description:
"Bunker Genealogy: Descendants of James Bunker of Dover, N. H.", by Moran Jr. Edward Carleton Moran Jr. Bunker, from Sawtelle Records. Archive copy: phocopied by Louise Pyle, original owned by Robert Pyle. Uploaded copy: from archive.org


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…On 27 Feb. 1762 the Massachusetts General Court granted the whole island of Mount Desert to Governor Francis Bernard, who made a genealogically valuable …of Mount Desert, 1762 (Sparks Manu scripts in Harvard College Library; Bangor Historical Magazine 2:186; Street s Mt. …At Mount Desert Town Meeting 11 April 1780, he was chosen member of Committee of Corres pondence, Inspection and Safety (Mt. Desert T.R.). …Desert, Me., Town Rec. 1 :20 ; Street: History Mt.
6280Nathaniel and Mary Hadlock
  • Document, Genealogy Records
  • People
..."History of the Hadlocks", by Sawtelle, William Otis...NOTE: The last document is a scan of the first pages of "The History Journal of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society", Volume 1, 1998, containing...
Description:
..."History of the Hadlocks", by Sawtelle, William Otis...NOTE: The last document is a scan of the first pages of "The History Journal of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society", Volume 1, 1998, containing...
6290Hoyt, Simon
  • Document, Genealogy Records
  • People
...Genealogical History of the Hoyt, Haight & Hight Families, by Hoyt, David W. Genealogical Researcher, by Kincaid, Peter A...
Description:
...Genealogical History of the Hoyt, Haight & Hight Families, by Hoyt, David W. Genealogical Researcher, by Kincaid, Peter A...


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…They were forced to flee from Connecticut across Long Island Sound to Lloyd's Neck. Here on Long Island they joined many other loyal refugees. …I would also like to thank Judith Baxter for permission to use her pencil sketch of Mount Pleasant prior to its restoration. …He returned to England and died on the Island of Guernsey in 1857. …Perley, Esq. concluded his lectures on the Early History of New Brunswick 20 R. S.

6290 m.pdf
…Newport, Rhode Island........ do. do. .. . Eaton's Neck, Lung Island .. do. do. .. .. …, and that at some future period the vast and northern deserts of Acadia and Canada will give laws to all North America. …Frost found an asylum at Lloyd's Neck, Long Island. …Half after eleven. we are brought to by the guard ship at City Island.
6355Richards
  • Document, Genealogy Records
  • People
Connections: Knowles, Thomas, Thompson, Hinckley, Richards. The Winthrop Fleet of 1630, by Banks, Charles Edward. Richards Genealogy, by Swett, David L. & Wescott, Elizabeth C.
Description:
Connections: Knowles, Thomas, Thompson, Hinckley, Richards. The Winthrop Fleet of 1630, by Banks, Charles Edward. Richards Genealogy, by Swett, David L. & Wescott, Elizabeth C.


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…of Mount Desert Island, Maine. …Died: 12 December 1807+ Died: 22 March 1814+ Mount Desert Island Mount Desert Island American Revolutionary War They went from Gloucester to MDI in the …NOTE: Children listed in Small's History of Swan's Island NOTE: m (I) for her with Wm. …census Small's History of Swan's Island 'kxkxkxkxkxkxxxxkxkxkxxkxkkxkxkkkxkkkkkkxkkxxxkxxkxxxxxxxxxkxxxxxxxkxxkkk IV-87 Mary C.

6355 b.pdf
Desert at Seal Cove, lived a Mrs. …Smith b. 1875 d. 1885 of epilepsy SOURCES: History of Bartlett's Island Eden Vitals I-88 i ii Census 1850-1880 f1 ******************************** …Galley b. c1857 SOURCES: +MD Vitals History of Bartlett's Island Census 1870 xkkNOTE: Mace children: Jane b. c 1837; Hannah b. c1839; Augusta b. c1841; …vi vii SOURCES: 1900 MD Census 1903 History of Bartlett's Island ************************************************************* VI-94 Alice s.

6355 c.pdf
…Story of Mount Desert Island by Samuel Eliot Morison Little, Brown and Company 1960. A short, interesting account of MDI by a prominent historian 3. …Mount Desert--George E. …Small's History of Swan's Island 26. …Census Records for Mount Desert Island 1790-1910. The Richardson name has been quite carefully checked through 1870 and reasonably so since that.
6372Smallidge, Robert
  • Document, Genealogy Records
  • People
...Early History of Mount Desert & Some Early Families...
Description:
...Early History of Mount Desert & Some Early Families...


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…Note;In Streets History of It Desert,he says,"The malitia were screened behind natural brest works-this enabled them to rest their guns, pick their men …DESERT (83) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Samuel Champlain,first saw the hills of Mt Desert in 1604,and named it Island of Desert Mountains. …-=- The early social and political history of the Island,is not too d=fr 1. erent f4om the rest of the area,except there was more emphasis on Far ming …title history as complicating as it is interesting.
6444Mount Desert Island and the Cranberry Isles
  • Document, Genealogy Records
  • People
Attributed to Ezra A. Dodge. Downloaded from archive.org. NEHL has a spiral bound photocopy of poor quality
  • N. K. Sawyer
  • 1871
Description:
Attributed to Ezra A. Dodge. Downloaded from archive.org. NEHL has a spiral bound photocopy of poor quality


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Desert." SITUATION AND CONNECTION OF THE ISLAND. Mt. Desert Island is situated on the eastern coast of Maine, in Lat. 44deg. 15 min. …HISTORY OF MT. …Mount It is evident the Des-ert. …MODERN HISTORY AND REMINISCENCES. The "Modern History" of Mt.
6453Snapshot, (1840)
  • Document, Genealogy Records
  • People
...History of Census of Mount Desert Island. Maps, Valuations in the town of Mount Desert, Shipping...
Description:
...History of Census of Mount Desert Island. Maps, Valuations in the town of Mount Desert, Shipping...
6888Woman's Literary Club Collection
  • Collection
  • Organizations, Civic, Club
  • Other, Literature
  • People
...Club members actively wrote papers (many award-winning) ranging from poetry to local family histories and biographies of famous artists...
  • 17 boxes (11 legal-size document boxes, 3 record carton boxes, 4 flat storage boxes)
  • manuscripts, typescripts, letters, annual meeting notes, scrapbooks, news clippings, photographs, meeting programs, photographs, objects
Description:
...Club members actively wrote papers (many award-winning) ranging from poetry to local family histories and biographies of famous artists...


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WLC Collection Finding Aid.pdf
…of Mount Desert Island) Untitled (History of Mount Desert Island) w/ notes and drafts Manchester Ancestry Untitled (Mythology) Untitled (Thanksgiving) …Hill Address at Southwest Harbor Neighborhood House to the Mount Desert Island Federation of Women s Clubs Stella L. …of Mount Desert Island, 1949 Norman Rockwell Maine Summer Resorts The Northeast Harbor Library, 1933 Wills Milling and Shipping Industries of Mount Desert …Off Mount Desert, 1933 E.
6981GXS Collection - Ephemera
  • Collection
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • People
  • Places, Island
...Folder 26 Mount Desert Island Real Estate Co., share certificate for Geo. C. Ming dated August 23, 1888 for fifteen shares in capital stock...Folder 39 Article on early history of Mount Desert Island...Island" by Diane White...The island in question is Frenchboro...
Description:
...Folder 26 Mount Desert Island Real Estate Co., share certificate for Geo. C. Ming dated August 23, 1888 for fifteen shares in capital stock...Folder 39 Article on early history of Mount Desert Island...Island" by Diane White...The island in question is Frenchboro...
7184Rivers Clippings Collection Alphabetical Files
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Events
  • People
  • Places
...Bar Harbor Bar Harbor Airlines Bar Harbor Yacht Club Bartlett, Irene Bartlett Island Bass, Robert Beal & Bunker Ferry Beal, David A...Boyden Gray, Inez Great Duck Island Green, Joe Green Mountain Railway H Hadlock, Elmer Hadlock, Wendell S. Hagberg, Karol Hall, Thomas S...Merrill Haynes, Richard Heckscher, August Heckshire, Claude Higgins, Victor & Ruby Hill, Gerald Hill, Percey History Holmes, Bernard (Bun) Housing...Mason Mount Desert Mount Desert Boys in WWII Mount Desert Festival of Chamber Music Mount Desert Island Mount Desert Public Health Murphy, Maitland...
  • 1 filing cabinet
  • folders with articles and clippings
Description:
...Bar Harbor Bar Harbor Airlines Bar Harbor Yacht Club Bartlett, Irene Bartlett Island Bass, Robert Beal & Bunker Ferry Beal, David A...Boyden Gray, Inez Great Duck Island Green, Joe Green Mountain Railway H Hadlock, Elmer Hadlock, Wendell S. Hagberg, Karol Hall, Thomas S...Merrill Haynes, Richard Heckscher, August Heckshire, Claude Higgins, Victor & Ruby Hill, Gerald Hill, Percey History Holmes, Bernard (Bun) Housing...Mason Mount Desert Mount Desert Boys in WWII Mount Desert Festival of Chamber Music Mount Desert Island Mount Desert Public Health Murphy, Maitland...


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…Mason Morfit named COA trustee , April 6, 1989 Mount Desert - People around Mount Desert Island: Donald McPheters , The Bar Harbor Times, November …Desert Island Mount Desert Public Health - Mount Desert Island , scenes, buildings etc. …Desert Island , The Ellsworth American, August 29, 1985 - CCC left permanent mark on Mount Desert Island , The Ellsworth American, December 5, 1985 …of Mount Desert Rock , The Islander Magazine, August 1983 (Vol.
7326Woman's Literary Club Collection - Box 1
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Organizations, Civic, Club
  • Other, Literature
  • People
...Author Unknown - Appreciation of the Fine Arts - History of Mount Desert Island - History of Mount Desert Island with notes and drafts - The Manchester...Easter of My Life, by Edith Favour - The First Americans and the Men from Outer Space, 1974, by Edith Favour - The Herring Gull, by Edith Favour - Mount...Gilley - Re*Papers on Local History (1940), by Edith S. Gilley - Written for Stella L. Hill (1941), by Edith S...Gilley - Red Cross History, by Winifred Graves...
  • manuscripts, typescripts, letters, news clippings, photographs
Description:
...Author Unknown - Appreciation of the Fine Arts - History of Mount Desert Island - History of Mount Desert Island with notes and drafts - The Manchester...Easter of My Life, by Edith Favour - The First Americans and the Men from Outer Space, 1974, by Edith Favour - The Herring Gull, by Edith Favour - Mount...Gilley - Re*Papers on Local History (1940), by Edith S. Gilley - Written for Stella L. Hill (1941), by Edith S...Gilley - Red Cross History, by Winifred Graves...


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WLC Box 1.pdf
…BOX 1 (legal-size document box) WLC Typescripts and Manuscripts Title (topic), date Untitled (Appreciation of Fine Arts) Untitled (History of Mount DesertIsland) Untitled (History of Mount Desert Island) w/ notes and drafts Manchester Ancestry Untitled (Mythology) Untitled (Thanksgiving) Author unknown …1986 The Easter of My Life The First American and the Men from Outer Space, 1974 The Herring Gull (published in GFWC Clubwoman), 1990 with merit award MountDesert Families in 1775-76, 1975 The Record-maker, 1985 Robins Are Singing in the Rain September Song, 1990 with merit award Wabanaki Artisans, 1980 Untitled