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13271Islesford Historial Museum
  • Reference
  • Organizations, Civic
  • Structures, Civic, Exhibition, Museum
  • Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
William Otis Sawtelle (1874-1939), physicist, historian, genealogist, author founded the museum in 1919. Architect Edmund B. Gilchrist designed the Colonial Revival building, built in 1927. The building, Sawtelle’s Edwin Hadlock’s ship chandlery (The Blue Duck Ships’ Store) the Sawtelle gravesite, and 1.3 acres were acquired by the National Park Service in 1948. The Islesford Historical Museum built in 1927 contains deeds, maps, engravings, papers, and artifacts related to the early history of the Acadia region. The collection also includes artifacts of the region's cultural history including fur- nishings, tools, photographs and scrapbooks. The records of the active schooner which carried cargoes from the Cranberry Isles to ports all over the world cover about one hundred years beginning in 1796.
Islesford Historial Museum
Item:
  • 13271   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Organizations, Civic
  • Structures, Civic, Exhibition, Museum
Place:
  • Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
State:
  • ME
Description:
William Otis Sawtelle (1874-1939), physicist, historian, genealogist, author founded the museum in 1919. Architect Edmund B. Gilchrist designed the Colonial Revival building, built in 1927. The building, Sawtelle’s Edwin Hadlock’s ship chandlery (The Blue Duck Ships’ Store) the Sawtelle gravesite, and 1.3 acres were acquired by the National Park Service in 1948. The Islesford Historical Museum built in 1927 contains deeds, maps, engravings, papers, and artifacts related to the early history of the Acadia region. The collection also includes artifacts of the region's cultural history including fur- nishings, tools, photographs and scrapbooks. The records of the active schooner which carried cargoes from the Cranberry Isles to ports all over the world cover about one hundred years beginning in 1796. [show more]
8797William Otis Sawtelle Standing at the Islesford Historical Museum
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • Structures, Civic, Exhibition, Museum
  • Buckman - Emma Johns Buckman (1881-1968)
  • 1927 c.
  • Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
William Otis Sawtelle Standing at the Islesford Historical Museum
Item:
  • 8797   
Accession #:
  • 1012
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
Subject:
  • People
  • Structures, Civic, Exhibition, Museum
Creator:
  • Buckman - Emma Johns Buckman (1881-1968)
Date:
  • 1927 c.
Place:
  • Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Emma Johns Buckman Collection
8798Islesford Historical Museum
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Structures, Civic, Exhibition, Museum
  • Buckman - Emma Johns Buckman (1881-1968)
  • 1927 c.
  • Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Islesford Historical Museum
Item:
  • 8798   
Accession #:
  • 1012
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
Subject:
  • Structures, Civic, Exhibition, Museum
Creator:
  • Buckman - Emma Johns Buckman (1881-1968)
Date:
  • 1927 c.
Place:
  • Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Emma Johns Buckman Collection
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museum, building