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3473Chester Eben Clement House
  • Reference
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 17 Forest Avenue
Chester Eben Clement House
Item:
  • 3473   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 17 Forest Avenue
3487Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Organizations, Civic, Public Library
  • Structures, Civic, Library
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 338 Main Street
Nell Thornton famously said, in her book, The Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor, “The Southwest Harbor Public Library had its beginning [as the Tremont Public Library] in 1884 when Mrs. Annie Sawyer Downs gathered a number of discarded books from the hotels, mostly paper covered volumes, and placed them on a shelf in one corner of Dr. R. J. Lemont's drug store…” The library was, as were many small libraries on the coast of Maine, started by “people from away,” in other words, summer people. This small library, however, was quickly adopted by native Southwest Harborians, and has grown, in the almost one and a half centuries since its founding, to be one of Maine’s very few five-star libraries, according to the Library Journal Index of Public Library Service. Thornton, Nellie C., Traditions and records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine (Merrill & Webber Company, 1938, The Southwest Harbor Public Library, 1988)
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Item:
  • 3487   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Organizations, Civic, Public Library
  • Structures, Civic, Library
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 338 Main Street
Description:
Nell Thornton famously said, in her book, The Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor, “The Southwest Harbor Public Library had its beginning [as the Tremont Public Library] in 1884 when Mrs. Annie Sawyer Downs gathered a number of discarded books from the hotels, mostly paper covered volumes, and placed them on a shelf in one corner of Dr. R. J. Lemont's drug store…” The library was, as were many small libraries on the coast of Maine, started by “people from away,” in other words, summer people. This small library, however, was quickly adopted by native Southwest Harborians, and has grown, in the almost one and a half centuries since its founding, to be one of Maine’s very few five-star libraries, according to the Library Journal Index of Public Library Service. Thornton, Nellie C., Traditions and records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine (Merrill & Webber Company, 1938, The Southwest Harbor Public Library, 1988) [show more]
3513Long Pond
  • Reference
  • Places, Lake
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Long Pond
Long Pond is the largest body of fresh water on Mount Desert Island. It is nearly 4 miles long and reaches over 100 feet deep. The pond is a public water supply.
Long Pond
Item:
  • 3513   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Places, Lake
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • Long Pond
Description:
Long Pond is the largest body of fresh water on Mount Desert Island. It is nearly 4 miles long and reaches over 100 feet deep. The pond is a public water supply.
3514Bonaventure - Dragger
  • Reference
  • Vessels, Commercial Fishing Vessel, Net Fishing Vessel, Dragger
  • Southwest Harbor
Bonaventure was a 90’ dragger designed by Cyrus Hamlin and built for the Novello family of Gloucester by Southwest Boat Corporation in Southwest Harbor. She was the first big dragger built there. See: Prybot, Peter K.. White-Tipped Orange Masts: Gloucester’s Fishing Draggers, 1970-1972, A Time of Change (The Curious Traveller Press, Gloucester, 1998), p. 63.
Bonaventure - Dragger
Item:
  • 3514   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Vessels, Commercial Fishing Vessel, Net Fishing Vessel, Dragger
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Description:
Bonaventure was a 90’ dragger designed by Cyrus Hamlin and built for the Novello family of Gloucester by Southwest Boat Corporation in Southwest Harbor. She was the first big dragger built there. See: Prybot, Peter K.. White-Tipped Orange Masts: Gloucester’s Fishing Draggers, 1970-1972, A Time of Change (The Curious Traveller Press, Gloucester, 1998), p. 63.
3523Methodist Church - Southwest Harbor
  • Reference
  • Organizations, Religious
  • Structures, Ceremonial, Church
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 20 Wesley Avenue
Methodist Church - Southwest Harbor
Item:
  • 3523   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Organizations, Religious
  • Structures, Ceremonial, Church
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 20 Wesley Avenue
3524Gilley - Irene R. (Gilley) Dunbar (1911-1940)
  • Reference
  • People
  • Southwest Harbor
Irene R. Gilley (1911-1940) was a great-great-great-granddaughter of William Gilley (1746-1839).According to historian Ralph Warren Stanley, Irene’s funeral at the Methodist Church on Wesley Avenue in Southwest Harbor was well attended. The church, built in 1888, apparently needed repair. The floor dropped 6” during service. That day may have been the last day the church was used. – 05/28/2014
Gilley - Irene R. (Gilley) Dunbar (1911-1940)
Item:
  • 3524   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • People
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Description:
Irene R. Gilley (1911-1940) was a great-great-great-granddaughter of William Gilley (1746-1839).According to historian Ralph Warren Stanley, Irene’s funeral at the Methodist Church on Wesley Avenue in Southwest Harbor was well attended. The church, built in 1888, apparently needed repair. The floor dropped 6” during service. That day may have been the last day the church was used. – 05/28/2014
3525Dunbar - Linwood N. Dunbar (1904-1942)
  • Reference
  • People
  • Southwest Harbor
Dunbar - Linwood N. Dunbar (1904-1942)
Item:
  • 3525   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • People
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
3532TopGallant
Anne Brimley Gould Cottage
  • Reference
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 11 Waterview Lane
TopGallant
Anne Brimley Gould Cottage
Item:
  • 3532   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 11 Waterview Lane
12777363 Main Street, Southwest Harbor
  • Reference
  • Places, Address
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 363 Main Street
363 Main Street, Southwest Harbor
Item:
  • 12777   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Places, Address
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 363 Main Street
12780168 Clark Point Road, Southwest Harbor
  • Reference
  • Places, Address
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 168 Clark Point Road
168 Clark Point Road, Southwest Harbor
Item:
  • 12780   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Places, Address
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 168 Clark Point Road
3562Carroll - Nellie Rebecca (Carroll) Thornton (1871-1958)
  • Reference
  • People
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 23 High Road
Nellie is remembered with love and gratitude by generations of Southwest Harbor and Mount Desert Island residents, genealogists and historians from here and "from away" for her 1938 book, popularly known as, "Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor," a complete and detailed record of the history of the people and places in the town of her birth. Besides writing the definitive history of Southwest Harbor and its inhabitants she was wrote the social notes for the town that appeared in the Bar Harbor Times for many years and was an active library volunteer. She was also an enthusiastic photographer who documented the activities of her large family. She made photograph albums for many family members, many of whom have shared her photographs with the Southwest Harbor Public Library. Archivists credit all of the photographs in her albums to her as she took or planned most of them. Those not taken by her were photographed by unnamed family members.
Carroll - Nellie Rebecca (Carroll) Thornton (1871-1958)
Item:
  • 3562   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • People
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 23 High Road
Description:
Nellie is remembered with love and gratitude by generations of Southwest Harbor and Mount Desert Island residents, genealogists and historians from here and "from away" for her 1938 book, popularly known as, "Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor," a complete and detailed record of the history of the people and places in the town of her birth. Besides writing the definitive history of Southwest Harbor and its inhabitants she was wrote the social notes for the town that appeared in the Bar Harbor Times for many years and was an active library volunteer. She was also an enthusiastic photographer who documented the activities of her large family. She made photograph albums for many family members, many of whom have shared her photographs with the Southwest Harbor Public Library. Archivists credit all of the photographs in her albums to her as she took or planned most of them. Those not taken by her were photographed by unnamed family members. [show more]
3583E.A. Lawler Paint Company
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 40 Clark Point Road
Lawler purchased the building in 1923. The other half of the building was occupied by the Robinson Brother's Automobile Accessories salesroom
E.A. Lawler Paint Company
Item:
  • 3583   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Store Business
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 40 Clark Point Road
Description:
Lawler purchased the building in 1923. The other half of the building was occupied by the Robinson Brother's Automobile Accessories salesroom
3584Sylvester W. Dorr Carpenter Shop
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Carpentry Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 40 Clark Point Road
Sylvester W. Dorr Carpenter Shop
Item:
  • 3584   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Carpentry Business
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 40 Clark Point Road
3582Whitney Electrical Store
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 40 Clark Point Road
Whitney Electrical Store
Item:
  • 3582   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Store Business
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 40 Clark Point Road
3590Bryon Heman Mayo House
Henry Rose Hinckley II House
  • Reference
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 10 Robinson Lane
The building fronted on Main Street and would probably have had a Main Street address at the time. The property is now [2017] the Western Way Condominium complex.
Bryon Heman Mayo House
Henry Rose Hinckley II House
Item:
  • 3590   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 10 Robinson Lane
Description:
The building fronted on Main Street and would probably have had a Main Street address at the time. The property is now [2017] the Western Way Condominium complex.
3592Freeman's Wharf
Farnsworth Fish Factory
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf
  • Southwest Harbor
Built by John T.R. Freeman around 1885. The wharf was occupied by several canning businesses at various times
Freeman's Wharf
Farnsworth Fish Factory
Item:
  • 3592   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Description:
Built by John T.R. Freeman around 1885. The wharf was occupied by several canning businesses at various times
3601The Gilley Plumbing Company
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Service Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 21 Clark Point Road
The Gilley and Salisbury plumbing shop was at first built by George H. Gilley on his lot near his home on the Main Road and was used there as a plumber's shop for some years. Then it was moved to its present situation and in 1929 it was moved to the rear of the lot and the show rooms and upstairs living apartment were built. Mr. Gilley's grandson, Wendell H. Gilley, now carried on the business. Gilley Plumbing was a part of the Gilley family for at least three generations. Maud Holmes Gilley ran the business with her son Wendell after the death of her husband, Frank Gilley, in 1920.
The Gilley Plumbing Company
Item:
  • 3601   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Service Business
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 21 Clark Point Road
Description:
The Gilley and Salisbury plumbing shop was at first built by George H. Gilley on his lot near his home on the Main Road and was used there as a plumber's shop for some years. Then it was moved to its present situation and in 1929 it was moved to the rear of the lot and the show rooms and upstairs living apartment were built. Mr. Gilley's grandson, Wendell H. Gilley, now carried on the business. Gilley Plumbing was a part of the Gilley family for at least three generations. Maud Holmes Gilley ran the business with her son Wendell after the death of her husband, Frank Gilley, in 1920. [show more]
3602R.M. Norwood Company
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Building Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Clark Point Road
The R.M. Norwood Company did the original construction of the Wendell Gilley Museum.
R.M. Norwood Company
Item:
  • 3602   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Building Business
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • Clark Point Road
Description:
The R.M. Norwood Company did the original construction of the Wendell Gilley Museum.
3610Dirigo Hotel
  • Reference
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
  • Southwest Harbor
  • High Road
The Dirigo Hotel burned down on September 3, 1960.
Dirigo Hotel
Item:
  • 3610   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • High Road
Description:
The Dirigo Hotel burned down on September 3, 1960.
3612Island Telephone Company
  • Reference
  • Organizations, Civic, Municipal
  • Southwest Harbor
Established in 1907 for Southwest Harbor, Tremont, and the Cranberry Isles.
Island Telephone Company
Item:
  • 3612   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Organizations, Civic, Municipal
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Description:
Established in 1907 for Southwest Harbor, Tremont, and the Cranberry Isles.
3637Ronald Rich Boat Shop
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Herrick Road
Ronald Dean Rich's boat shop. Ronald was the son of Clifton Melbourne Rich and the brother of Robert "Bobby" Rich and Roger Clifton Rich, all other skilled boat builders.
Ronald Rich Boat Shop
Item:
  • 3637   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • Herrick Road
Description:
Ronald Dean Rich's boat shop. Ronald was the son of Clifton Melbourne Rich and the brother of Robert "Bobby" Rich and Roger Clifton Rich, all other skilled boat builders.
3662McEachern & Hutchins Hardware Store
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 345 Main St.
Started as a contracting business in 1949, Archie McEachern bought out his uncle Jasper Hutchins in 1957 and transitioned the business to a lumber and hardware supply. The store expanded to multiple locations and was taken over by Archie's son, Les.
McEachern & Hutchins Hardware Store
Item:
  • 3662   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Store Business
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 345 Main St.
Description:
Started as a contracting business in 1949, Archie McEachern bought out his uncle Jasper Hutchins in 1957 and transitioned the business to a lumber and hardware supply. The store expanded to multiple locations and was taken over by Archie's son, Les.
3672George A. Neal House
James Lawton House
Danforth Marcyes House
  • Reference
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 314 Main Street
This was originally the site of the James Lawton house built by Danforth Marcyes. In 2017 this was the site of the Bar Harbor Bank and Trust Building.
George A. Neal House
James Lawton House
Danforth Marcyes House
Item:
  • 3672   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 314 Main Street
Description:
This was originally the site of the James Lawton house built by Danforth Marcyes. In 2017 this was the site of the Bar Harbor Bank and Trust Building.
3686J.C. Ralph Studio and Store
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Main Street
John C. Ralph’s Studio has a complicated history. The J.C. Ralph Studio and Store, on Main Street in Southwest Harbor, proclaimed itself, "Eyeglasses and Spectacles - Jeweler and Optician." "Jeweler John C. Ralph moved from Bar Harbor to Southwest Harbor in 1888 to open a jewelry window in J.T.R. Freeman's store. Over the course of his 22-year tenure in Southwest Harbor, this ambitious man established many businesses...As described in the newspaper, Ralph never walked when he could run." -“Mount Desert Island - Somesville, Southwest Harbor, and Northeast Harbor” by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. and Lydia B. Vandenbergh - Images of America Series, p. 57 – 2001. “John D. Lurvey purchased the lot and built thereon a small building which he used as a storehouse for coffins which he made, as he was a skilled carpenter and cabinet maker. Later this building was used as a public library and was twice moved; once to the northern end of the lot and again to the place now occupied by the Lawton Variety store, where it was used as a drug store, a jeweler’s store, a barber shop and the post office. John C. Ralph kept the post office there and enlarged the building.” - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 148 – 1938.
J.C. Ralph Studio and Store
Item:
  • 3686   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Store Business
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • Main Street
Description:
John C. Ralph’s Studio has a complicated history. The J.C. Ralph Studio and Store, on Main Street in Southwest Harbor, proclaimed itself, "Eyeglasses and Spectacles - Jeweler and Optician." "Jeweler John C. Ralph moved from Bar Harbor to Southwest Harbor in 1888 to open a jewelry window in J.T.R. Freeman's store. Over the course of his 22-year tenure in Southwest Harbor, this ambitious man established many businesses...As described in the newspaper, Ralph never walked when he could run." -“Mount Desert Island - Somesville, Southwest Harbor, and Northeast Harbor” by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. and Lydia B. Vandenbergh - Images of America Series, p. 57 – 2001. “John D. Lurvey purchased the lot and built thereon a small building which he used as a storehouse for coffins which he made, as he was a skilled carpenter and cabinet maker. Later this building was used as a public library and was twice moved; once to the northern end of the lot and again to the place now occupied by the Lawton Variety store, where it was used as a drug store, a jeweler’s store, a barber shop and the post office. John C. Ralph kept the post office there and enlarged the building.” - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 148 – 1938. [show more]
3687Stanley - Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021)
  • Reference
  • People
  • Southwest Harbor
Ralph Stanley, boat builder, sailor, raconteur, genealogist, historian, musician, violin maker and beloved mentor to all who share these interests, has been recognized by the government of the United States, the State of Maine and the citizens of Southwest Harbor as a veritable Living Treasure.
Stanley - Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021)
Item:
  • 3687   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • People
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Description:
Ralph Stanley, boat builder, sailor, raconteur, genealogist, historian, musician, violin maker and beloved mentor to all who share these interests, has been recognized by the government of the United States, the State of Maine and the citizens of Southwest Harbor as a veritable Living Treasure.