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| 3513 | Long Pond |
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| 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. | 
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. | |||
| 12777 | 363 Main Street, Southwest Harbor |
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| 12780 | 168 Clark Point Road, Southwest Harbor |
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| 15909 | Smuggler’s Den Campground |
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| Charles Wallace Birlem and Ben Conley Worcester Jr. built Smuggler's Den Campground on Carroll's Hill, eventually carving out 110 lots. It was sold to Annabellle Dam Worcester after Charles Wallace Birlem’s death 12/6/1976. | 
Description: Charles Wallace Birlem and Ben Conley Worcester Jr. built Smuggler's Den Campground on Carroll's Hill, eventually carving out 110 lots. It was sold to Annabellle Dam Worcester after Charles Wallace Birlem’s death 12/6/1976. | |||
| 13891 | 17 Chris's Lane |
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| 14033 | 50 Clark Point Road |
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| 14302 | Old Burying Ground - Southwest Harbor |
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| Oldest burial ground on Mount Desert Island. Established by the Rev. Ebenezer Eaton, pastor of the First Congregational Church, in his own field. Eaton was called in 1801, was not ordained until 1823, and was active until 1834. Many burials have been removed. | 
Description: Oldest burial ground on Mount Desert Island. Established by the Rev. Ebenezer Eaton, pastor of the First Congregational Church, in his own field. Eaton was called in 1801, was not ordained until 1823, and was active until 1834. Many burials have been removed. | |||
| 14336 | 46 Clark Point Road |
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| 14358 | Carroll Hill Cemetery Evergreen Cemetery |
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| 14414 | Fernald Point |
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| 3451 | 45 Clark Point Road |
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| Businesses that have occupied this location: - Fred Mayo’s Carpenter Shop – 1st Location - C.E. Clement Boat Builders |
Description: Businesses that have occupied this location: - Fred Mayo’s Carpenter Shop – 1st Location - C.E. Clement Boat Builders | |||
| 13264 | Lower Town Dock, Southwest Harbor |
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| 13291 | 345 Main Street, Southwest Harbor |
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| 13379 | Southwest Harbor, Maine, 1921 Sanborn Map |
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| This items ties together sheets 1, 2, and 3, a set of three maps depicting Southwest Harbor, Maine as of September 1921. The upper right corner of Sheet 1 shows the winter population as 206 and the summer population as 1500. |
Description: This items ties together sheets 1, 2, and 3, a set of three maps depicting Southwest Harbor, Maine as of September 1921. The upper right corner of Sheet 1 shows the winter population as 206 and the summer population as 1500. | |||
| 13406 | 184 Clark Point Road |
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| 13428 | Norwood's Cove |
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| 13430 | Norwood Road |
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| 13432 | Town of Southwest Harbor |
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| 13433 | Clark Point Road |
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| 13434 | Lurvey Family Lands |
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| 13477 | Deacon's Cove, Southwest Harbor Clark's Cove, Southwest Harbor |
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| The cove was named for Deacon Henry Higgins Clark. |  Deacon's Cove, Southwest Harbor Clark's Cove, Southwest Harbor
Description: The cove was named for Deacon Henry Higgins Clark. | ||||
| 13751 | Indian Lot |
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| Now the site of "Indian Lot Cottage" built in 1927 by the Norwoods for George Ashbridge Rhoads and still owned, in 2007, by Rhoads descendents, the Obbard family. "I think it was the same year (1847) that fifteen or twenty Indians from Oldtown camped on the salt water shore opposite Parkers. The chief said they had been rehearsing their old customs and would like the right to give an exhibition if a hall could be found that was large enough. The woolen factory was not in use at that time so it was opened for the purpose…The Indians dressed in their war paint and feathers and gave their dances with flourishing tomahawks and blood-curdling yells. One of the tribe could play the violin with considerable skill…" - Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 255 - 1938. "For many years Indians from Oldtown came every summer and encamped on the rocky lot across from the Parker property. They pitched their tents and remained for the summer, selling their baskets. The men roamed the woods gathering sweet grass and occasionally cutting an ash tree, which right they were vouchsafed by the owners of the land as it was an unwritten law that the Indians could have an occasional tree to use in their work from the land that, not so long before, had belonged entirely to them. They were quiet, law-abiding neighbors and the encampment was one of the picturesque sights of the town. When in 1925 George A. Rhoads of Wilmington, Delaware, built his house on the camp site, he called it Indian Lot.” - Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 167. "Indians from Oldtown, Maine camped on the rocks across [Clark Point Road] from our house [the Parker house at 143 Clark Point Road] each summer. They lived in tents and sold baskets, moccasins and small birch bark canoes. Some of the baskets were made of wood and some almost entirely of sweetgrass which had a very pleasant odor. This grass was secured from the marshes at Bass Harbor and would be cured by being hung up in large bunches. They also cut some ash wood for use in making the wooden baskets. As the same Indians returned year after year we became well acquainted with them. In later years the older Indian boys played baseball with us." - “Recollections of Southwest Harbor, Maine 1885-1894” by Jesse L. Parker, p. 40, manuscript, 1955. This valuable manuscript is a narrative of the early history of the town by an eyewitness. There are largely unknown or unreported facts on almost every page. See “Indians in Eden: Wabanakis and Rusticators on Maine’s Mount Desert Island, 1840s-1920’s” by Bunny McBride and Harlod E. L. Prins. | 
Description: Now the site of "Indian Lot Cottage" built in 1927 by the Norwoods for George Ashbridge Rhoads and still owned, in 2007, by Rhoads descendents, the Obbard family. "I think it was the same year (1847) that fifteen or twenty Indians from Oldtown camped on the salt water shore opposite Parkers. The chief said they had been rehearsing their old customs and would like the right to give an exhibition if a hall could be found that was large enough. The woolen factory was not in use at that time so it was opened for the purpose…The Indians dressed in their war paint and feathers and gave their dances with flourishing tomahawks and blood-curdling yells. One of the tribe could play the violin with considerable skill…" - Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 255 - 1938. "For many years Indians from Oldtown came every summer and encamped on the rocky lot across from the Parker property. They pitched their tents and remained for the summer, selling their baskets. The men roamed the woods gathering sweet grass and occasionally cutting an ash tree, which right they were vouchsafed by the owners of the land as it was an unwritten law that the Indians could have an occasional tree to use in their work from the land that, not so long before, had belonged entirely to them. They were quiet, law-abiding neighbors and the encampment was one of the picturesque sights of the town. When in 1925 George A. Rhoads of Wilmington, Delaware, built his house on the camp site, he called it Indian Lot.” - Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 167. "Indians from Oldtown, Maine camped on the rocks across [Clark Point Road] from our house [the Parker house at 143 Clark Point Road] each summer. They lived in tents and sold baskets, moccasins and small birch bark canoes. Some of the baskets were made of wood and some almost entirely of sweetgrass which had a very pleasant odor. This grass was secured from the marshes at Bass Harbor and would be cured by being hung up in large bunches. They also cut some ash wood for use in making the wooden baskets. As the same Indians returned year after year we became well acquainted with them. In later years the older Indian boys played baseball with us." - “Recollections of Southwest Harbor, Maine 1885-1894” by Jesse L. Parker, p. 40, manuscript, 1955. This valuable manuscript is a narrative of the early history of the town by an eyewitness. There are largely unknown or unreported facts on almost every page. See “Indians in Eden: Wabanakis and Rusticators on Maine’s Mount Desert Island, 1840s-1920’s” by Bunny McBride and Harlod E. L. Prins. [show more] | |||
| 13808 | Eugene M. Norwood Square |
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| The square is at the junction of Main Street and Seal Cove Road, Southwest Harbor, Maine. | 
Description: The square is at the junction of Main Street and Seal Cove Road, Southwest Harbor, Maine. | ||||
| 3715 | Great Pond Camp, Company 158 - Civilian Conservation Corp |
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| One of the thousands of camps set up by President Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corp program during the great depression. The Great Pond Camp in Southwest Harbor operated from 1933-1941. The men who worked at the camp were integral to the early development of the trail system in Acadia National Park. “The Southwest Harbor camp was opened about May, 1933 with enrollees erecting and living in tents while construction of the roll roofing covered barracks continued. An aerial photo dated September 5, 1933 shows four barracks buildings and four service buildings in place. Officers quarters, dispensary and living quarters for the commanding officer were added later. The last two were of log construction. The camp was located at the height of ground on the west side of the road leading from Southwest Harbor village to the south end of Great Pond [Long Pond]. This was near Acadia National Park lands where most of the work-projects took place. This park being one of the National Park System came under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of the Interior. Consequently the Department of the Interior controlled the employees and type of work projects carried out on the ground. This was a typical 200 man camp. All enrollees were Maine residents. Familial relationships were scarce but for most living conditions were a great improvement over depression years living conditions at home. Living conditions, discipline and in-camp activities were the concern of the U.S. Army…” – Fred E. Holt, former forest commissioner - “In the Public Interest: The Civilian Conservation Corps in Maine (1933-1942) - A Pictorial History” by Jon A. Schlenker, Norman A. Wetherington and Austin H. Wilkins, published by the University of Maine at Augusta Press, 1988, p. 67-70 | 
Description: One of the thousands of camps set up by President Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corp program during the great depression. The Great Pond Camp in Southwest Harbor operated from 1933-1941. The men who worked at the camp were integral to the early development of the trail system in Acadia National Park. “The Southwest Harbor camp was opened about May, 1933 with enrollees erecting and living in tents while construction of the roll roofing covered barracks continued. An aerial photo dated September 5, 1933 shows four barracks buildings and four service buildings in place. Officers quarters, dispensary and living quarters for the commanding officer were added later. The last two were of log construction. The camp was located at the height of ground on the west side of the road leading from Southwest Harbor village to the south end of Great Pond [Long Pond]. This was near Acadia National Park lands where most of the work-projects took place. This park being one of the National Park System came under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of the Interior. Consequently the Department of the Interior controlled the employees and type of work projects carried out on the ground. This was a typical 200 man camp. All enrollees were Maine residents. Familial relationships were scarce but for most living conditions were a great improvement over depression years living conditions at home. Living conditions, discipline and in-camp activities were the concern of the U.S. Army…” – Fred E. Holt, former forest commissioner - “In the Public Interest: The Civilian Conservation Corps in Maine (1933-1942) - A Pictorial History” by Jon A. Schlenker, Norman A. Wetherington and Austin H. Wilkins, published by the University of Maine at Augusta Press, 1988, p. 67-70 [show more] | |||
| 12877 | Chris's Pond |
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