"The Appalachian Mountain Camp at Echo Lake was established in 1922..." - Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 126 - 1938. Ralph Stanley says that the Appalachian Mountain Club tents were stored in the sheds behind his house at 102-104 Clark Point Road in the 1930s. He remembers watching them hauled out of the sheds that later became his boat building shop, every Spring.
Description: "The Appalachian Mountain Camp at Echo Lake was established in 1922..." - Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 126 - 1938. Ralph Stanley says that the Appalachian Mountain Club tents were stored in the sheds behind his house at 102-104 Clark Point Road in the 1930s. He remembers watching them hauled out of the sheds that later became his boat building shop, every Spring. [show more]
Note with photograph says, "The "prettiest cabin" which was built by the CCC camp men on land owned by Mr. B.C. Worcester with the agreement that when we moved out, it was to be his."
Description: Note with photograph says, "The "prettiest cabin" which was built by the CCC camp men on land owned by Mr. B.C. Worcester with the agreement that when we moved out, it was to be his."
The cars are probably a 1936 Ford and a 1936 Oldsmobile. The building on the left is the Dudley Luther Mayo house. The white building, then the Carroll Building on Main Street in Southwest Harbor, housed Carroll Drug Store and the A&P. The village green is just visible to the right of the building.
Description: The cars are probably a 1936 Ford and a 1936 Oldsmobile. The building on the left is the Dudley Luther Mayo house. The white building, then the Carroll Building on Main Street in Southwest Harbor, housed Carroll Drug Store and the A&P. The village green is just visible to the right of the building.
Notable buildings Left to Right: E.A. Lawler Paint Company, 40 Clark Point Road, Map 3 - Lot 108, MHPC #405-0165. William Joseph Tower house (roof peak only), 38 Clark Point Road, Map 3 - Lot 106, MHPC #405-0164. Masonic Hall - 353 Main Street, Map 3 - Lot 96, MHPC #405-0161 - just visible as the large peaked roof on the left at the end of Clark Point Road. The American Gas Accumulator Company Acetylene Traffic Beacon, or "Silent Policeman," is just visible in the center of the photograph at the junction of Clark Point Road and Main Street with the town bandstand behind it. Perry "Ped" L. Sargent's Livery Stable - 7-19 Clark Point Road, Map 6 - Lot 99 - visible as the small building near the right corner of Clark Point Road and Main Street. Gilley Plumbing Company - 21 Clark Point Road, Map 6 - Lot 99 - both the livery stable and the plumbing shop were later subsumed into the later Post Office parking lot. Wilbur C. Wallace house, 29 Clark Point Road, Map 6 - Lot 100, MHPC #405-0083.
Description: Notable buildings Left to Right: E.A. Lawler Paint Company, 40 Clark Point Road, Map 3 - Lot 108, MHPC #405-0165. William Joseph Tower house (roof peak only), 38 Clark Point Road, Map 3 - Lot 106, MHPC #405-0164. Masonic Hall - 353 Main Street, Map 3 - Lot 96, MHPC #405-0161 - just visible as the large peaked roof on the left at the end of Clark Point Road. The American Gas Accumulator Company Acetylene Traffic Beacon, or "Silent Policeman," is just visible in the center of the photograph at the junction of Clark Point Road and Main Street with the town bandstand behind it. Perry "Ped" L. Sargent's Livery Stable - 7-19 Clark Point Road, Map 6 - Lot 99 - visible as the small building near the right corner of Clark Point Road and Main Street. Gilley Plumbing Company - 21 Clark Point Road, Map 6 - Lot 99 - both the livery stable and the plumbing shop were later subsumed into the later Post Office parking lot. Wilbur C. Wallace house, 29 Clark Point Road, Map 6 - Lot 100, MHPC #405-0083. [show more]