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16631Isaac Stanley's Wonderland Lobster Pound at Seawall and Abel's Pound at Richville
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
  • Bar Harbor Times
  • 1928-06-06
  • Southwest Harbor, Seawall
Bar Harbor Times, Wednesday, June 6, 1928 LOBSTER POUNDS ARE POPULAR PICNIC RESORTS Wonderland at Seawall and Abel's Pound at Richville Opened for 1928 Season The picnic lobster pound is a new and very popular form of beach resort. Lobster pounds, dammed-up pools or coves similar to salt water swimming pools, have been used for many years for the purpose of keeping large quantities of live lobsters for long periods. Within the last few years it has been found that a lobster pound that happens to be situated on a picturesque piece of rocky shore backed up by spruce groves, and is supplied with an open fire and iron kettle makes an ideal picnic place. The two places on Mt. Desert that are primarily pleasure resort pounds are both new, and are both so busy that their boiling kettles work at capacity during the summer. One is ''Wonderland", Isaac Stanley's pound at Seawall. Mr. Stanley's property consists of 147 acres of high wooded land with a shore front a mile and three quarters in length, including Bennett's Cove, Mullin's Cove, and Bennett's Cove Head between them. That point is the extreme southeastern tip of Mount Desert Island and is thrust out into the open ocean where Long Ledge runs off into the section of Atlantic Ocean between Great Gott's Island and Great Cranberry Island. The pound is made by a dam across one corner of Bennett's Cove. Instead of putting lobsters into it, they are kept in a car floating in the pound, and the pound is stocked with cod and haddock, so that guests can get their own dinner with hook and line if they prefer that kind to lobster. There is a large log cabin dining-room, sealed inside with fragrant cedar boards, for use on days when it is too cool or too damp to picnic on the beach or in the spruce grove. Besides the log cabin there are several other smaller cabins, and a house-boat which is hauled up on the beach inside the pound, which are let to guests as overnight camps or as cottages for the week or season. One of the cabins, just being completed, is built completely of cedar which was growing in trees a few weeks ago. "Wonderland" is unique in several ways, with its remarkably cool location, its moss-carpeted woodland of big spruce, and its peculiar beach formation of huge sea-smoothe granite rocks, and it attracts many visitors by sea and land. On one Sunday last summer Mr. Stanley counted nearly three hundred cars at his place during the day. Not all of the people who visit the Seawall pound go there to buy lobsters; many of them merely wish to enjoy an hour on a bit of Mount Desert's rugged shore. They are just as welcome in any case, and customers and guests meet with the same real "down east" hospitality. Mr. Stanley's place is already opened for the season, and on the last two Sundays entertained quite a number of visitors. Henry Abel's park is situated farther around on the western side of Mt. Desert, at Richville, a little cove between Bass Harbor and Goose Cove. Mr. Abel has one of the fine little headlands of the Island, which for purposes such as his, are rapidly decreasing in number as the shoreline is sold for summer estates. In some ways this spot is like Wonderland. It has a bluff granite promontory with a little harbor on one side, and a seawall beach on the other, and a growth of big evergreens with little grass and moss glades among the trees comes down to the landward edge of the ledges; but whereas Mr. Stanley's pound is on the open ocean, this one is on the shore of Bluehill Bay which is a deep and wide, but generally smooth, expanse of water. It has a beautiful panorama of the string of islands which some five miles out form the western and southern breakwater that shelters the bay. Back of the beach at the east of the point is Gundlow Pond a curious little precisely skow-shaped salt pool that rises and falls with the tide, although it is separated from the ocean by a hundred and fifty feet of high-heaped seawall. Abel's Pound has a houseboat hauled up among the trees, and several cabins, which are used to serve lobster dinners in inclement weather, or for overnight or weekly parties. Then it has an outfit of rustic seats and tables along the shore and through the grove. The park furnishes boats and tackle to its guests so that they can enjoy the very good deep-water fishing to be had just off the shore. Mr. Abel makes a specialty of taking care of his quests in any weather, or at any time of the day or evening, as he has found that people who are on the Island for a week-end of for a limited vacation period must utilize their time fully without waiting for ideal days and nights.
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Bar Harbor Times, Wednesday, June 6, 1928 LOBSTER POUNDS ARE POPULAR PICNIC RESORTS Wonderland at Seawall and Abel's Pound at Richville Opened for 1928 Season The picnic lobster pound is a new and very popular form of beach resort. Lobster pounds, dammed-up pools or coves similar to salt water swimming pools, have been used for many years for the purpose of keeping large quantities of live lobsters for long periods. Within the last few years it has been found that a lobster pound that happens to be situated on a picturesque piece of rocky shore backed up by spruce groves, and is supplied with an open fire and iron kettle makes an ideal picnic place. The two places on Mt. Desert that are primarily pleasure resort pounds are both new, and are both so busy that their boiling kettles work at capacity during the summer. One is ''Wonderland", Isaac Stanley's pound at Seawall. Mr. Stanley's property consists of 147 acres of high wooded land with a shore front a mile and three quarters in length, including Bennett's Cove, Mullin's Cove, and Bennett's Cove Head between them. That point is the extreme southeastern tip of Mount Desert Island and is thrust out into the open ocean where Long Ledge runs off into the section of Atlantic Ocean between Great Gott's Island and Great Cranberry Island. The pound is made by a dam across one corner of Bennett's Cove. Instead of putting lobsters into it, they are kept in a car floating in the pound, and the pound is stocked with cod and haddock, so that guests can get their own dinner with hook and line if they prefer that kind to lobster. There is a large log cabin dining-room, sealed inside with fragrant cedar boards, for use on days when it is too cool or too damp to picnic on the beach or in the spruce grove. Besides the log cabin there are several other smaller cabins, and a house-boat which is hauled up on the beach inside the pound, which are let to guests as overnight camps or as cottages for the week or season. One of the cabins, just being completed, is built completely of cedar which was growing in trees a few weeks ago. "Wonderland" is unique in several ways, with its remarkably cool location, its moss-carpeted woodland of big spruce, and its peculiar beach formation of huge sea-smoothe granite rocks, and it attracts many visitors by sea and land. On one Sunday last summer Mr. Stanley counted nearly three hundred cars at his place during the day. Not all of the people who visit the Seawall pound go there to buy lobsters; many of them merely wish to enjoy an hour on a bit of Mount Desert's rugged shore. They are just as welcome in any case, and customers and guests meet with the same real "down east" hospitality. Mr. Stanley's place is already opened for the season, and on the last two Sundays entertained quite a number of visitors. Henry Abel's park is situated farther around on the western side of Mt. Desert, at Richville, a little cove between Bass Harbor and Goose Cove. Mr. Abel has one of the fine little headlands of the Island, which for purposes such as his, are rapidly decreasing in number as the shoreline is sold for summer estates. In some ways this spot is like Wonderland. It has a bluff granite promontory with a little harbor on one side, and a seawall beach on the other, and a growth of big evergreens with little grass and moss glades among the trees comes down to the landward edge of the ledges; but whereas Mr. Stanley's pound is on the open ocean, this one is on the shore of Bluehill Bay which is a deep and wide, but generally smooth, expanse of water. It has a beautiful panorama of the string of islands which some five miles out form the western and southern breakwater that shelters the bay. Back of the beach at the east of the point is Gundlow Pond a curious little precisely skow-shaped salt pool that rises and falls with the tide, although it is separated from the ocean by a hundred and fifty feet of high-heaped seawall. Abel's Pound has a houseboat hauled up among the trees, and several cabins, which are used to serve lobster dinners in inclement weather, or for overnight or weekly parties. Then it has an outfit of rustic seats and tables along the shore and through the grove. The park furnishes boats and tackle to its guests so that they can enjoy the very good deep-water fishing to be had just off the shore. Mr. Abel makes a specialty of taking care of his quests in any weather, or at any time of the day or evening, as he has found that people who are on the Island for a week-end of for a limited vacation period must utilize their time fully without waiting for ideal days and nights. [show more]
15948Gott's Store Celebrates 75 Years
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Hinckley - Sarah Hinckley
  • Mount Desert Islander
  • 2019-10-16
  • Southwest Harbor
Newspaper article about Gott's Store in Southwest Harbor, Maine on its 75 year aniversary.
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Newspaper article about Gott's Store in Southwest Harbor, Maine on its 75 year aniversary.
15622Newman's legacy, and his boats, will sail on
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • People
  • Hinckley - Sarah Hinckley
  • Mount Desert Islander
  • 2019-09-11
Article about legendary boatbuilder Jarvis Newman.
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Article about legendary boatbuilder Jarvis Newman.
15620Beal's Bowling Spa Opened Last Week in Southwest Harbor
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Businesses, Bowling Alley Business
  • Bar Harbor Times
  • 1948-03-18
  • Southwest Harbor
Full page advertisement on page 6 in the March 18, 1948 Bar Harbor Times. The two photographs in the ad were taken by Willis Ballard. They are items 6371 and 6372 in the Digital Archive.
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Full page advertisement on page 6 in the March 18, 1948 Bar Harbor Times. The two photographs in the ad were taken by Willis Ballard. They are items 6371 and 6372 in the Digital Archive.
15403Hinckley Yachts: An American Icon
  • Publication, Book
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Voulgaris - Nick Voulgaris III
  • Rizzoli (April 29, 2014)
Several images from the Southwest Harbor Public Library Digital Archive appear in this book. Hardcover: 224 pages ISBN-10: 9780847842155 ISBN-13: 978-0847842155
Description:
Several images from the Southwest Harbor Public Library Digital Archive appear in this book. Hardcover: 224 pages ISBN-10: 9780847842155 ISBN-13: 978-0847842155
15402The Hinckley Story
  • Publication, Book
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Hinckley - Benjamin B. Hinckley, Jr.
  • Pilot Press, Dedham, Massachusetts
  • 1997
This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of the Henry R. Hinckley Company and Southwest Boat Corporation. ISBN-10: 0963566822 ISBN-13: 978-0963566829
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This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of the Henry R. Hinckley Company and Southwest Boat Corporation. ISBN-10: 0963566822 ISBN-13: 978-0963566829
15405Alden Yawls Nirvana and Valhalla
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • 1951
Floor and sail plans for two yawls, the Nirvana and the Valhalla, designed by John G. Alden in 1948 and built by the Henry R. Hinckley company in 1949-1950.
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Floor and sail plans for two yawls, the Nirvana and the Valhalla, designed by John G. Alden in 1948 and built by the Henry R. Hinckley company in 1949-1950.
15404Maine Yard Building Sixty-Foot Yachts
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • The New York Times
  • 1950-02-11
The clipping reads: "MANSET, Me., Feb. 10 (AP) Yacht builders of Manset have resumed an art dormant since pre-war days, the fashioning of king-sized pleasure craft on Mount Desert Island. Of "two sixty-footers now building, one is a future. Bermuda race contender ordered by Harry G. Haskell Jr. of Wilmington, Del. and Northeast Harbor. The other will fly the flag of Cummins Catherwood of Philadelphia. The yachts are. on ways of Henry R. Hinckley & Co. Shipwrights expect Mr. Haskell's craft will be launched in April or May. The tentative date for the other launching is June 17." The Catherwood boat was the Valhalla. The Haskell boat was the Nirvana.
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The clipping reads: "MANSET, Me., Feb. 10 (AP) Yacht builders of Manset have resumed an art dormant since pre-war days, the fashioning of king-sized pleasure craft on Mount Desert Island. Of "two sixty-footers now building, one is a future. Bermuda race contender ordered by Harry G. Haskell Jr. of Wilmington, Del. and Northeast Harbor. The other will fly the flag of Cummins Catherwood of Philadelphia. The yachts are. on ways of Henry R. Hinckley & Co. Shipwrights expect Mr. Haskell's craft will be launched in April or May. The tentative date for the other launching is June 17." The Catherwood boat was the Valhalla. The Haskell boat was the Nirvana. [show more]
13627My Grandmother Lived for the Factory Whistle
  • Publication, Literary, Memoir
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • People
  • Walsh - Carol Reed Walsh
The story of Mary Louise Mitchell as told by her granddaught, Carol Reed Walsh
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The story of Mary Louise Mitchell as told by her granddaught, Carol Reed Walsh
13628The Last U.S. Sardine Factory Shutting Its Doors
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Associated Press
  • 2010-04-14
Describes the closing of the Stinson Seafood plant
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Describes the closing of the Stinson Seafood plant
13495Annabelle's: Untying the Apron Strings at a "Backside" Institution
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
  • Lincoln - Nan Lincoln
  • The Bar Harbor Times
  • 1990-09-20
  • Southwest Harbor, Seawall
  • 560 Seawall Road
13488"No Seat Without a Sweeping View of the Ocean"
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
  • Flagg - Pat Flagg
  • The Ellsworth American
  • 1974-05
  • Southwest Harbor, Seawall
  • 560 Seawall Road
13489Seawall Dining Room - Back Room Lounge
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
  • 1976-04-04
  • Southwest Harbor, Seawall
  • 560 Seawall Road
12814Eagle's Perch Tea House Advertisement
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
  • Bar Harbor Times
  • 1932-08-31
Eagle's Perch Tea House at the Edward Sumner Macomber Cottage
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Eagle's Perch Tea House at the Edward Sumner Macomber Cottage
12797Building Demolition Changes SWH Landscape
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Businesses, Building Business
  • Businesses, Service Business
  • Bar Harbor Times
  • 1986-10-23
Bar Harbor Times, October 23, 1986
Description:
Bar Harbor Times, October 23, 1986
12776The Rugged Maine Coast Produces a Hard-Working Breed of Mankind
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
  • People
  • 1980-09-28
from the Sarasota Herald Tribune, September 28, 1980, pg 18-A
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from the Sarasota Herald Tribune, September 28, 1980, pg 18-A
3445Sawyer's Market 60th Anniversary
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • 2006
An 8 page supplement to the Mount Desert Islander dated October 2006.
Description:
An 8 page supplement to the Mount Desert Islander dated October 2006.
3036Article About Rich and Grindle Boatbuilders
  • Publication, Literary, Memoir
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Rich - Meredith Adelle (Rich) Hutchins (1939-2016)
  • 2005-07-07
Adapted from an article by Meredith Rich Hutchins for the Mount Desert Islander – July 7, 2005
Description:
Adapted from an article by Meredith Rich Hutchins for the Mount Desert Islander – July 7, 2005
6414Subscribers of Island Telephone Company - Southwest Harbor and Tremont
  • Publication, Directory
  • Businesses, Service Business
  • American Print, Ellsworth
  • 1913 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
3021Hall Quarry
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Businesses, Quarry Operation
  • Johnson - Mercy Johnson
  • 1979
10225Advertisement for Albert W. Bee, Stationer, Bar Harbor, Maine
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • 1887-02-17
  • Bar Harbor
10228Advertisement for William Underwood & Co
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • The Outlook Monthly Magazine
  • 1906
  • Boston MA
Advertisement appeared in "The Outlook" - A Weekly Newspaper and an Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 83, May 5 - August 25, 1906.
Description:
Advertisement appeared in "The Outlook" - A Weekly Newspaper and an Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 83, May 5 - August 25, 1906.