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12784The Dollar Social at Southwest Harbor
  • Reference
  • Events
  • Organizations, Civic, Public Library
In 1892 the ladies of Southwest Harbor gathered together to raise money for land upon which to build a library building and then reported how they raised their dollar..The Dollar Social was the first fundraising event held for the Southwest Harbor Public Library and the poem describing it was famous in the community for many years.
The Dollar Social at Southwest Harbor
Item:
  • 12784   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Events
  • Organizations, Civic, Public Library
Description:
In 1892 the ladies of Southwest Harbor gathered together to raise money for land upon which to build a library building and then reported how they raised their dollar..The Dollar Social was the first fundraising event held for the Southwest Harbor Public Library and the poem describing it was famous in the community for many years.
13305Champlain Society's Camp Pemetic
  • Reference
  • Organizations
  • Places, Camp
  • Mount Desert
The camp was located on the bluff above Wasgatt Cove "on the east side of Some's Sound, a little to the north of the house of Mr. Asa Smallidge, and opposite Flying Mountain and the cliff of Dog Mountain on the western side of the Sound." "Charles [Eliot] did not know just where he would pitch the camp, but expected to find a suitable and central place somewhere between Otter Creek and Seawall Point. So, after picking up the camp equipment at a house on Waukeag Neck, he cruised along that shore and went up into Somes Sound and anchored in what we now call Wasgatt's Cove on the eastern shore. There, above the gravel bank, was a bit of open meadow with a good spring at the back and just to the north of the brook which is the outlet of Hadlock Pond fell with a little waterfall into the cove." - "The Champlain Society" fragment of manuscript by Samuel Atkins Eliot, 1931 - in the collection of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society. See also: "Charles Eliot, Landscape Architect, A Lover Of Nature And Of His Kind, Who Trained Himself For A New Profession, Practised It Happily And Through It Wrought Much Good," p. 26.
Champlain Society's Camp Pemetic
Item:
  • 13305   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Organizations
  • Places, Camp
Place:
  • Mount Desert
State:
  • ME
Description:
The camp was located on the bluff above Wasgatt Cove "on the east side of Some's Sound, a little to the north of the house of Mr. Asa Smallidge, and opposite Flying Mountain and the cliff of Dog Mountain on the western side of the Sound." "Charles [Eliot] did not know just where he would pitch the camp, but expected to find a suitable and central place somewhere between Otter Creek and Seawall Point. So, after picking up the camp equipment at a house on Waukeag Neck, he cruised along that shore and went up into Somes Sound and anchored in what we now call Wasgatt's Cove on the eastern shore. There, above the gravel bank, was a bit of open meadow with a good spring at the back and just to the north of the brook which is the outlet of Hadlock Pond fell with a little waterfall into the cove." - "The Champlain Society" fragment of manuscript by Samuel Atkins Eliot, 1931 - in the collection of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society. See also: "Charles Eliot, Landscape Architect, A Lover Of Nature And Of His Kind, Who Trained Himself For A New Profession, Practised It Happily And Through It Wrought Much Good," p. 26. [show more]
15048US Life-Saving Service
  • Reference
  • Organizations
In 1878 the network of life saving stations were formally organized as a separate agency of the Treasury Department and was named the Life-Saving Service. The US Life-Saving Service grew out of a network of coast watching stations established to provide assistance and shore rescue to disabled ships in the mid-19th century, but did not become formally established until 1871, when it came under the direction of Sumner Increase Kimball (1834-1923) of Lebanon, Maine. Kimball reorganized the service, built many new stations with up-to-date equipment, established rigorous training and certification programs for stationmasters and surfmen, and set high standards for the Life-Saving Service. He continued to serve as the Director of the U.S. Life-Saving Service until it was absorbed by the U.S. Coast Guard in 1915.
US Life-Saving Service
Item:
  • 15048   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Organizations
Description:
In 1878 the network of life saving stations were formally organized as a separate agency of the Treasury Department and was named the Life-Saving Service. The US Life-Saving Service grew out of a network of coast watching stations established to provide assistance and shore rescue to disabled ships in the mid-19th century, but did not become formally established until 1871, when it came under the direction of Sumner Increase Kimball (1834-1923) of Lebanon, Maine. Kimball reorganized the service, built many new stations with up-to-date equipment, established rigorous training and certification programs for stationmasters and surfmen, and set high standards for the Life-Saving Service. He continued to serve as the Director of the U.S. Life-Saving Service until it was absorbed by the U.S. Coast Guard in 1915. [show more]
15874The Country Strummers
  • Reference
  • Organizations
"The Country Strummers began their musical career back in 1964. Ralph Stanley and Fred Black were invited to join a group of musicians and singers that were entertaining at the [Knights of Pythias] Lodge Hall in Bernard. This was a program sponsored by the lodge that included dancing, singing and an all round evening of good local talent. This inspired Fred and Ralph to stick with their music and they began a schedule of practice each week, their practice sessions were held on Saturday night. In 1966 Floyd Farley joined Ralph and Fred. Floyd being very talented with any string instrument soon became a real asset to the group. These three musicians kept quite busy playing for local functions, traveling to many of our nursing homes, senior citizens homes and many wedding and anniversary parties.
The Country Strummers
Item:
  • 15874   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Organizations
Description:
"The Country Strummers began their musical career back in 1964. Ralph Stanley and Fred Black were invited to join a group of musicians and singers that were entertaining at the [Knights of Pythias] Lodge Hall in Bernard. This was a program sponsored by the lodge that included dancing, singing and an all round evening of good local talent. This inspired Fred and Ralph to stick with their music and they began a schedule of practice each week, their practice sessions were held on Saturday night. In 1966 Floyd Farley joined Ralph and Fred. Floyd being very talented with any string instrument soon became a real asset to the group. These three musicians kept quite busy playing for local functions, traveling to many of our nursing homes, senior citizens homes and many wedding and anniversary parties. [show more]
3595James M. Parker G.A.R. Post #105
  • Reference
  • Organizations, Civic
The Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) was a veterans organization formed at the end of the Civil War. It reached peak membership by 1890, with over 400,000 members, with many prominent veterans, including five presidents. The organization had three objectives: Fraternity, charity, and loyalty. The principle legacy of the G.A.R. is the observation of Decoration Day, now known as Memorial Day, on May 30th.
James M. Parker G.A.R. Post #105
Item:
  • 3595   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Organizations, Civic
Source:
  • http://www.loc.gov/rr/main/gar/garintro.html
Description:
The Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) was a veterans organization formed at the end of the Civil War. It reached peak membership by 1890, with over 400,000 members, with many prominent veterans, including five presidents. The organization had three objectives: Fraternity, charity, and loyalty. The principle legacy of the G.A.R. is the observation of Decoration Day, now known as Memorial Day, on May 30th.
3710Maine Seacoast Mission
  • Reference
  • Organizations, Civic
  • Bar Harbor
  • 127 West Street
Founded in 1905 to provide access to medical and dental care, spiritual support, education, and crisis services to the islands, lighthouses, and isolated coastal communities around Mount Desert Island. The first of the Mission's ships, the Sunbeam, was commissioned in 1912. The current vessel (in 2017) serving the mission is the Sunbeam V. "Founded in 1905 by two brothers, Angus and Alexander MacDonald, [the purpose of the Maine Seacoast Mission Society] was "to undertake religious and benevolent work with the people in the neglected communities and among the isolated families along the coast and on the islands" (from the Society's by-laws). The Society maintained a mission for three decades on Head Harbor Island (1910-1940) and another intermittently for some years on Crowley (Moose) Island in the Indian River. Its vessels - initially the sloop Hope, followed by the Morning Star and later by the steam and diesel-powered Sunbeams I, II, III, and IV - cruised regularly back and forth along the coast, summer and winter, to maintain contact with the missions as well as to visit other islanders, including the life saving and lighthouse crews at the fifteen or more island stations in our sector. Alexander MacDonald, a large and impulsive man (who once physically removed a heckler from his church at Frenchboro), was the first pastor as well as captain of the Mission's vessels; he died aboard Sunbeam I in 1922. He was succeeded by the Reverend Orville J. Guptill and in 1935 by the Reverend Neal D. Bousfield, who served for thirty-seven years (to 1972). The work of the society continues." - "Islands Of The Mid-Maine Coast, Vol.II: Mount Desert To Machias Bay" by Charles B. McLane. Falmouth, Maine, The Kennebec River Press, Inc., c. l989, pp 22-23. - "Islands Of The Mid-Maine Coast, Vol.II: Mount Desert To Machias Bay" by Charles B. McLane. Falmouth, Maine, The Kennebec River Press, Inc., c. l989, pp 22-23.
Maine Seacoast Mission
Item:
  • 3710   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Organizations, Civic
Place:
  • Bar Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 127 West Street
Description:
Founded in 1905 to provide access to medical and dental care, spiritual support, education, and crisis services to the islands, lighthouses, and isolated coastal communities around Mount Desert Island. The first of the Mission's ships, the Sunbeam, was commissioned in 1912. The current vessel (in 2017) serving the mission is the Sunbeam V. "Founded in 1905 by two brothers, Angus and Alexander MacDonald, [the purpose of the Maine Seacoast Mission Society] was "to undertake religious and benevolent work with the people in the neglected communities and among the isolated families along the coast and on the islands" (from the Society's by-laws). The Society maintained a mission for three decades on Head Harbor Island (1910-1940) and another intermittently for some years on Crowley (Moose) Island in the Indian River. Its vessels - initially the sloop Hope, followed by the Morning Star and later by the steam and diesel-powered Sunbeams I, II, III, and IV - cruised regularly back and forth along the coast, summer and winter, to maintain contact with the missions as well as to visit other islanders, including the life saving and lighthouse crews at the fifteen or more island stations in our sector. Alexander MacDonald, a large and impulsive man (who once physically removed a heckler from his church at Frenchboro), was the first pastor as well as captain of the Mission's vessels; he died aboard Sunbeam I in 1922. He was succeeded by the Reverend Orville J. Guptill and in 1935 by the Reverend Neal D. Bousfield, who served for thirty-seven years (to 1972). The work of the society continues." - "Islands Of The Mid-Maine Coast, Vol.II: Mount Desert To Machias Bay" by Charles B. McLane. Falmouth, Maine, The Kennebec River Press, Inc., c. l989, pp 22-23. - "Islands Of The Mid-Maine Coast, Vol.II: Mount Desert To Machias Bay" by Charles B. McLane. Falmouth, Maine, The Kennebec River Press, Inc., c. l989, pp 22-23. [show more]
3715Great Pond Camp, Company 158 - Civilian Conservation Corp
  • Reference
  • Organizations, Civic
  • Places, Camp
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 67 Long Pond Road
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
Great Pond Camp, Company 158 - Civilian Conservation Corp
Item:
  • 3715   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Organizations, Civic
  • Places, Camp
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 67 Long Pond Road
Tags:
ccc
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]
13197American Legion and Auxiliary, Eugene M. Norwood Post 69
  • Reference
  • Organizations, Civic
  • Structures, Other Structures, Civic Structures
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 22 Village Greenway
The Naval Radio Station was established at Seawall in September, 1942. It was disestablished in 1951. Between 1951 and 1953 the government transferred the building to the American Legion and Auxiliary, Eugene M. Norwood Post 69, Southwest Harbor. The building was then moved to 22 Village Green Way, Map 6 – Lot 40, Southwest Harbor. The building has been enlarge twice since it was moved to its present location.
American Legion and Auxiliary, Eugene M. Norwood Post 69
Item:
  • 13197   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Organizations, Civic
  • Structures, Other Structures, Civic Structures
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 22 Village Greenway
Description:
The Naval Radio Station was established at Seawall in September, 1942. It was disestablished in 1951. Between 1951 and 1953 the government transferred the building to the American Legion and Auxiliary, Eugene M. Norwood Post 69, Southwest Harbor. The building was then moved to 22 Village Green Way, Map 6 – Lot 40, Southwest Harbor. The building has been enlarge twice since it was moved to its present location.
13383Southwest Harbor Fire Department
  • Reference
  • Organizations, Civic
  • Structures, Civic, Fire House
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 250 Main Street
Southwest Harbor Fire Department
Item:
  • 13383   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Organizations, Civic
  • Structures, Civic, Fire House
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 250 Main Street
14624Order of the Eastern Star
  • Reference
  • Organizations, Civic
A fraternal order open to both men and women related to Freemasonry. There appear to have been chapter in Tremont and Portland
Order of the Eastern Star
Item:
  • 14624   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Organizations, Civic
Description:
A fraternal order open to both men and women related to Freemasonry. There appear to have been chapter in Tremont and Portland
14687Southwest Harbor Police Department
  • Reference
  • Organizations, Civic
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 26 Village Green Way
Southwest Harbor Police Department
Item:
  • 14687   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Organizations, Civic
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 26 Village Green Way
14852The Works Progress Administration (WPA)
  • Reference
  • Organizations, Civic
The Works Progress Administration (renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration; WPA was the largest and most ambitious New Deal agency, employing millions of unemployed people (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads. In much smaller but more famous projects the WPA employed musicians, artists, writers, actors and directors in large arts, drama, media, and literacy projects.
The Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Item:
  • 14852   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Organizations, Civic
Description:
The Works Progress Administration (renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration; WPA was the largest and most ambitious New Deal agency, employing millions of unemployed people (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads. In much smaller but more famous projects the WPA employed musicians, artists, writers, actors and directors in large arts, drama, media, and literacy projects. [show more]
15918Civilian Conservation Corps - Company 154
Eagle Lake Camp
  • Reference
  • Organizations, Civic
  • Places, Camp
  • Bar Harbor
  • 22 MacFarland Hill Drive
The Eagle Lake CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camp (NP-1), Company 154, at Bar Harbor was operated under the supervision of the National Park Service from May 1934 to June 1942. Its primary function was forest culture (roads, trails, recreation).
Civilian Conservation Corps - Company 154
Eagle Lake Camp
Item:
  • 15918   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Organizations, Civic
  • Places, Camp
Place:
  • Bar Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 22 MacFarland Hill Drive
Description:
The Eagle Lake CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camp (NP-1), Company 154, at Bar Harbor was operated under the supervision of the National Park Service from May 1934 to June 1942. Its primary function was forest culture (roads, trails, recreation).
10572Aerial View of Great Pond CCC Camp in Winter
  • Image, Photograph
  • Organizations, Civic
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 67 Long Pond Road
Benjamin Conley Worcester's blueberry barren on the other side of Long Pond Road, is visible at the upper left of the photograph.
Aerial View of Great Pond CCC Camp in Winter
Item:
  • 10572   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Organizations, Civic
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 67 Long Pond Road
Source:
  • Civilian Conservation Corps Collection
Tags:
aerial view, zoomable
Description:
Benjamin Conley Worcester's blueberry barren on the other side of Long Pond Road, is visible at the upper left of the photograph.
10588Entrance to Great Pond CCC Camp
  • Image, Photograph
  • Organizations, Civic
  • Southwest Harbor
Entrance to Great Pond CCC Camp
Item:
  • 10588   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Organizations, Civic
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Civilian Conservation Corps Collection
10589Bunkhouse Interior at Great Pond CCC Camp
  • Image, Photograph
  • Organizations, Civic
  • Structures, Dwellings, Bunkhouse
  • Southwest Harbor
Bunkhouse Interior at Great Pond CCC Camp
Item:
  • 10589   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Organizations, Civic
  • Structures, Dwellings, Bunkhouse
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Civilian Conservation Corps Collection
Tags:
camp
10590Mess Hall at Great Pond CCC Camp
  • Image, Photograph
  • Organizations, Civic
  • People
  • Structures, Other Structures
  • Southwest Harbor
Mess Hall at Great Pond CCC Camp
Item:
  • 10590   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Organizations, Civic
  • People
  • Structures, Other Structures
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Civilian Conservation Corps Collection
10618Cabin of CCC Commander Paul A. Harris
  • Image, Photograph
  • Organizations, Civic
  • Structures, Dwellings, Camp House
  • Southwest Harbor
Cabin of CCC Commander Paul A. Harris
Item:
  • 10618   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Organizations, Civic
  • Structures, Dwellings, Camp House
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Civilian Conservation Corps Collection
10619Flag at CCC Camp Entrance
  • Image, Photograph
  • Organizations, Civic
  • Southwest Harbor
Flag at CCC Camp Entrance
Item:
  • 10619   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Organizations, Civic
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Civilian Conservation Corps Collection
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.
13610Southwest Harbor Water Company
  • Reference
  • Organizations, Civic, Municipal
  • Southwest Harbor
The Southwest Harbor Water Company was founded by Dr. Joseph Dana Phillips, Anson I. Holmes, Jesse H. Pease, Alton E. Farnsworth, summer resident, Robert Kaighn, and lawyer, George R. Fuller. - "Acts and Resolves of the Sixty-sixth Legislature of the State of Maine, 1893, p. 621-623.
Southwest Harbor Water Company
Item:
  • 13610   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Organizations, Civic, Municipal
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Description:
The Southwest Harbor Water Company was founded by Dr. Joseph Dana Phillips, Anson I. Holmes, Jesse H. Pease, Alton E. Farnsworth, summer resident, Robert Kaighn, and lawyer, George R. Fuller. - "Acts and Resolves of the Sixty-sixth Legislature of the State of Maine, 1893, p. 621-623.
15936James Albert Freeman Post Office
  • Reference
  • Organizations, Civic, Municipal
  • Structures, Civic, Public, Post Office
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 8 Brook Passage
This building was used by James Albert Freeman as a Post Office from 1905 to 1914.
James Albert Freeman Post Office
Item:
  • 15936   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Organizations, Civic, Municipal
  • Structures, Civic, Public, Post Office
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 8 Brook Passage
Description:
This building was used by James Albert Freeman as a Post Office from 1905 to 1914.
16222Southwest Harbor Water Company Reservoir
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Stereograph
  • Organizations, Civic, Municipal
  • Places
  • Bradley - Bryant Bradley (1838-1890)
  • The buildings behind the reservoir include the Deacon Clark's Island House complex at the far left of the photograph. To the right of the complex is the Joseph Gilman Parker Jr. House, the structure with six windows on the side. The Lawton Canning Factory is the building along the shore. There is a grounded schooner visible next to the factory. A large canoe can be seen to the right of the photograph tied to the mud flats.
  • Southwest Harbor
Southwest Harbor Water Company Reservoir
Item:
  • 16222   
Accession #:
  • 2004
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Stereograph
Subject:
  • Organizations, Civic, Municipal
  • Places
Creator:
  • Bradley - Bryant Bradley (1838-1890)
Publisher:
  • The buildings behind the reservoir include the Deacon Clark's Island House complex at the far left of the photograph. To the right of the complex is the Joseph Gilman Parker Jr. House, the structure with six windows on the side. The Lawton Canning Factory is the building along the shore. There is a grounded schooner visible next to the factory. A large canoe can be seen to the right of the photograph tied to the mud flats.
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Gift of Charles Carroll
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]
14630Somesville Library
  • Reference
  • Organizations, Civic, Public Library
  • Mount Desert, Somesville
"The public library stands on the site where a building owned by A. C Fernald and used as an undertaker's shop and for the post-office was burned by lightning in 1891 with considerable loss in money as well as property. The land is owned by Mrs. George A. Somes and is leased to the library association, who built the present library in 1895-6." - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 265.
Somesville Library
Item:
  • 14630   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Organizations, Civic, Public Library
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Somesville
State:
  • ME
Description:
"The public library stands on the site where a building owned by A. C Fernald and used as an undertaker's shop and for the post-office was burned by lightning in 1891 with considerable loss in money as well as property. The land is owned by Mrs. George A. Somes and is leased to the library association, who built the present library in 1895-6." - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 265. [show more]