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Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date Place Address Description
16188Teacher's Convention at the Southwest Harbor Congregational Church
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • People
  • Structures, Ceremonial, Church
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 29 High Road
“Teacher’s convention in the early days of the new church building.”
Teacher's Convention at the Southwest Harbor Congregational Church
Item:
  • 16188   
Accession #:
  • 2004
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
Subject:
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • People
  • Structures, Ceremonial, Church
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 29 High Road
Source:
  • Gift of Charles Carroll
Description:
“Teacher’s convention in the early days of the new church building.”
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
13566Southwest Harbor Post Office at 30 Clark Point Road
  • Reference
  • Organizations, Civic
  • Structures, Civic, Public, Post Office
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 30 Clark Point Road
"At Southwest Harbor after J. T. R. Freeman, Mrs. Emily Robinson Farnsworth had the [post] office for some time; then J. A. Freeman and William J. Tower held it alternately according to change of political administration for several terms. Then E. S. Thurston was appointed and held office for twelve years until Earll W. Gott was appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt. The office has changed location with every new postmaster…" - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 105. "William J. Tower built the building east of the Jackson lot and he kept the post-office there for a number of years. He sold to E. S. Thurston when Mr. Thurston took over the duties of postmaster and after his services of twelve years were past, the property was sold in 1936 to Mrs. Fred A. Birlem whose son, Wallace Birlem, built the double garage behind it with living rooms above which he occupies [1938]." - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 157.
Southwest Harbor Post Office at 30 Clark Point Road
Item:
  • 13566   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Organizations, Civic
  • Structures, Civic, Public, Post Office
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 30 Clark Point Road
Description:
"At Southwest Harbor after J. T. R. Freeman, Mrs. Emily Robinson Farnsworth had the [post] office for some time; then J. A. Freeman and William J. Tower held it alternately according to change of political administration for several terms. Then E. S. Thurston was appointed and held office for twelve years until Earll W. Gott was appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt. The office has changed location with every new postmaster…" - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 105. "William J. Tower built the building east of the Jackson lot and he kept the post-office there for a number of years. He sold to E. S. Thurston when Mr. Thurston took over the duties of postmaster and after his services of twelve years were past, the property was sold in 1936 to Mrs. Fred A. Birlem whose son, Wallace Birlem, built the double garage behind it with living rooms above which he occupies [1938]." - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 157. [show more]
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]
13271Islesford Historial Museum
  • Reference
  • Organizations, Civic
  • Structures, Civic, Exhibition, Museum
  • Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
William Otis Sawtelle (1874-1939), physicist, historian, genealogist, author founded the museum in 1919. Architect Edmund B. Gilchrist designed the Colonial Revival building, built in 1927. The building, Sawtelle’s Edwin Hadlock’s ship chandlery (The Blue Duck Ships’ Store) the Sawtelle gravesite, and 1.3 acres were acquired by the National Park Service in 1948. The Islesford Historical Museum built in 1927 contains deeds, maps, engravings, papers, and artifacts related to the early history of the Acadia region. The collection also includes artifacts of the region's cultural history including fur- nishings, tools, photographs and scrapbooks. The records of the active schooner which carried cargoes from the Cranberry Isles to ports all over the world cover about one hundred years beginning in 1796.
Islesford Historial Museum
Item:
  • 13271   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Organizations, Civic
  • Structures, Civic, Exhibition, Museum
Place:
  • Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
State:
  • ME
Description:
William Otis Sawtelle (1874-1939), physicist, historian, genealogist, author founded the museum in 1919. Architect Edmund B. Gilchrist designed the Colonial Revival building, built in 1927. The building, Sawtelle’s Edwin Hadlock’s ship chandlery (The Blue Duck Ships’ Store) the Sawtelle gravesite, and 1.3 acres were acquired by the National Park Service in 1948. The Islesford Historical Museum built in 1927 contains deeds, maps, engravings, papers, and artifacts related to the early history of the Acadia region. The collection also includes artifacts of the region's cultural history including fur- nishings, tools, photographs and scrapbooks. The records of the active schooner which carried cargoes from the Cranberry Isles to ports all over the world cover about one hundred years beginning in 1796. [show more]
14669Southwest Harbor Post Office
  • Reference
  • Organizations, Civic, Municipal
  • Structures, Civic, Public, Post Office
Southwest Harbor Post Office
Item:
  • 14669   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Organizations, Civic, Municipal
  • Structures, Civic, Public, Post Office
14670Southwest Harbor Post Office at 340 Main Street
  • Reference
  • Organizations, Civic, Municipal
  • Structures, Civic, Public, Post Office
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 340 Main Street
Southwest Harbor Post Office at 340 Main Street
Item:
  • 14670   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Organizations, Civic, Municipal
  • Structures, Civic, Public, Post Office
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 340 Main Street
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.
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
12894Bass Harbor Post Office
McKinley Post Office
  • Reference
  • Organizations, Civic
  • Structures, Civic, Public, Post Office
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor
  • 45 Shore Road
Bass Harbor Post Office
McKinley Post Office
Item:
  • 12894   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Organizations, Civic
  • Structures, Civic, Public, Post Office
Place:
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 45 Shore Road
12962MacDuffie School for Girls
  • Reference
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • Structures, Institutional, School
  • Springfield MA
  • 171 Central Street
In 1890 Abby and John MacDuffie took over the Misses Howard’s school and founded the MacDuffie School for Girls in Springfield, Massachusetts, serving together as principals of the school for over forty years.
MacDuffie School for Girls
Item:
  • 12962   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • Structures, Institutional, School
Place:
  • Springfield MA
State:
  • MA
Address:
  • 171 Central Street
Description:
In 1890 Abby and John MacDuffie took over the Misses Howard’s school and founded the MacDuffie School for Girls in Springfield, Massachusetts, serving together as principals of the school for over forty years.
13420Vesta E. (Spear) McRae House and Original Bass Harbor Library
  • Reference
  • Organizations, Civic, Public Library
  • Structures, Civic, Library
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Tremont, Bernard
  • 90 Bernard Road
Vesta E. (Spear) McRae House and Original Bass Harbor Library
Item:
  • 13420   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Organizations, Civic, Public Library
  • Structures, Civic, Library
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
Place:
  • Tremont, Bernard
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 90 Bernard Road
12908First Congregational Church Bangor, ME
  • Reference
  • Organizations, Religious
  • Structures, Ceremonial, Church
  • Bangor ME
  • 10 Broadway Street
First Congregational Church Bangor, ME
Item:
  • 12908   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Organizations, Religious
  • Structures, Ceremonial, Church
Place:
  • Bangor ME
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 10 Broadway Street
14118St. Columba's Episcopal Chapel
  • Reference
  • Organizations, Religious
  • Structures, Ceremonial, Church
  • Tremont, Great Gott Island
Founded at the insistence of Elizabeth S. Peterson. The chapel was built by Miss Peterson in 1916 and consecrated in 1917. It remained in regular use until 1925. It fell largely into disuse and disrepair and after a few intermittent services in the 1940s it was largely abandoned until it was demolished in 1966.
St. Columba's Episcopal Chapel
Item:
  • 14118   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Organizations, Religious
  • Structures, Ceremonial, Church
Place:
  • Tremont, Great Gott Island
State:
  • ME
Description:
Founded at the insistence of Elizabeth S. Peterson. The chapel was built by Miss Peterson in 1916 and consecrated in 1917. It remained in regular use until 1925. It fell largely into disuse and disrepair and after a few intermittent services in the 1940s it was largely abandoned until it was demolished in 1966.
12966Maine Central Institute
  • Reference
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • Structures, Institutional, School
  • Pittsfield ME
  • 295 Main St
Maine Central Institute
Item:
  • 12966   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • Structures, Institutional, School
Place:
  • Pittsfield ME
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 295 Main St
13228Cranberry Isles Life Saving Station
  • Reference
  • Organizations
  • Structures, Other Structures, Life Saving Station
  • Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
  • 141 Bar Point Road
"The first Coast Guard presence in the Mt. Desert Island area was a Life Saving Station located on Little Cranberry Island, established by an act of congress on June 18th, 1878. In 1937, the Southwest Harbor complex was created and used as a lighthouse depot by the U.S. Light House Service. By 1945, the Coast Guard Station on Little Cranberry Island was moved to the facility in Southwest Harbor.” - “Sector Field Office (SFO) Southwest Harbor, Southwest Harbor, Maine – History,” United States Coast Guard site, 06/28/13, Accessed online 07/20/10; http://www.uscg.mil/d1/sfoSouthwestHarbor/history.asp.
Cranberry Isles Life Saving Station
Item:
  • 13228   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Organizations
  • Structures, Other Structures, Life Saving Station
Place:
  • Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 141 Bar Point Road
Description:
"The first Coast Guard presence in the Mt. Desert Island area was a Life Saving Station located on Little Cranberry Island, established by an act of congress on June 18th, 1878. In 1937, the Southwest Harbor complex was created and used as a lighthouse depot by the U.S. Light House Service. By 1945, the Coast Guard Station on Little Cranberry Island was moved to the facility in Southwest Harbor.” - “Sector Field Office (SFO) Southwest Harbor, Southwest Harbor, Maine – History,” United States Coast Guard site, 06/28/13, Accessed online 07/20/10; http://www.uscg.mil/d1/sfoSouthwestHarbor/history.asp. [show more]
14915Gotts Island Methodist Church
  • Reference
  • Organizations, Religious
  • Structures, Ceremonial, Church
  • Tremont, Great Gott Island
Gotts Island Methodist Church
Item:
  • 14915   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Organizations, Religious
  • Structures, Ceremonial, Church
Place:
  • Tremont, Great Gott Island
State:
  • ME
14920West Tremont School
Cornerstone Baptist Church
  • Reference
  • Organizations, Religious
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • Structures, Ceremonial, Church
  • Structures, Institutional, School
  • Tremont, West Tremont
  • 658 Tremont Road
The Cornerstone Baptist Church was founded on March 16, 1952 in a farmhouse across from Seal Cove Pond that later became Seal Cove Farm, with ten members. The pastor was Rev. George Wood. In 1953 the little congregation paid $16,000 to buy the old West Tremont Schoolhouse. They added a Sunday school wing in the 1960s.
West Tremont School
Cornerstone Baptist Church
Item:
  • 14920   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Organizations, Religious
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • Structures, Ceremonial, Church
  • Structures, Institutional, School
Place:
  • Tremont, West Tremont
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 658 Tremont Road
Description:
The Cornerstone Baptist Church was founded on March 16, 1952 in a farmhouse across from Seal Cove Pond that later became Seal Cove Farm, with ten members. The pastor was Rev. George Wood. In 1953 the little congregation paid $16,000 to buy the old West Tremont Schoolhouse. They added a Sunday school wing in the 1960s.
13269Manset Union Church
  • Reference
  • Organizations, Religious
  • Structures, Ceremonial, Church
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
  • 192 Seawall Road
Manset Union Church
Item:
  • 13269   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Organizations, Religious
  • Structures, Ceremonial, Church
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 192 Seawall Road
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.
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
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
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
10595CCC Members in Front of Mac's Cabin
  • Image, Photograph
  • Organizations, Civic
  • People
  • Structures, Dwellings, Camp House
  • Southwest Harbor
Left to Right: Douglas Elliott A. McPheters Photograph "taken at Mac's cabin"
CCC Members in Front of Mac's Cabin
Item:
  • 10595   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Organizations, Civic
  • People
  • Structures, Dwellings, Camp House
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Civilian Conservation Corps Collection
Description:
Left to Right: Douglas Elliott A. McPheters Photograph "taken at Mac's cabin"
7613Somesville Elementary School
  • Image, Photograph
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • Structures, Institutional, School
  • Mount Desert, Somesville
Somesville Elementary School
Item:
  • 7613   
Accession #:
  • 1023
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • Structures, Institutional, School
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Somesville
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Eleanor R. Mayo Collection