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| Southwest Harbor Post Office at 340 Main Street Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Southwest Harbor Post Office at 340 Main Street Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| James Albert Freeman Post Office Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  James Albert Freeman Post Office Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: This building was used by James Albert Freeman as a Post Office from 1905 to 1914. | ||
| Southwest Harbor Water Company Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Southwest Harbor Water Company Southwest Harbor Public Library 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. | ||
| Bass Harbor Post Office McKinley Post Office Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| The "Pemetic" school yearbooks 1921 - 1968 Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The "Pemetic" school yearbooks 1921 - 1968 Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The items for yearbooks 1937 - 1959 have photos attached to them. These are the original images, taken by Willis Ballard, used in those yearbooks. | ||
| MacDuffie School for Girls Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  MacDuffie School for Girls Southwest Harbor Public Library 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. | ||
| Civilian Conservation Corps - Company 154 Eagle Lake Camp Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  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). | ||
| Pemetic High School Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Pemetic High School Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| The Country Strummers Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Country Strummers Southwest Harbor Public Library 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] | |||
| Vesta E. (Spear) McRae House and Original Bass Harbor Library Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Vesta E. (Spear) McRae House and Original Bass Harbor Library Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Great Pond Camp, Company 158 - Civilian Conservation Corp Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Great Pond Camp, Company 158 - Civilian Conservation Corp Southwest Harbor Public Library 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] | ||
| First Congregational Church Bangor, ME Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  First Congregational Church Bangor, ME Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| St. Columba's Episcopal Chapel Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  St. Columba's Episcopal Chapel Southwest Harbor Public Library 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. | ||
| Eastern State Normal School Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Eastern State Normal School Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| The Old Cambridge Photographic Club Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Old Cambridge Photographic Club Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The parts played in the formation and activities of the Old Cambridge Photography Club by those who summered or designed cottages in Southwest Harbor, Maine: Alice Carpenter Allyn, Henry Lathrop Rand, and other Southwest Harborians |
| The Civilian Conservation Corps Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Maine Central Institute Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| 501 scans of Town of Cranberry Isles records (1831-1955) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  501 scans of Town of Cranberry Isles records (1831-1955) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Documents. Scans of Town of Cranberry Isles records from 1831-1950s now stored in five archival boxes. From July of 2015 through December 2015 scans of two boxes of Town of Cranberry Isles files that were once stored in the attic of the Longfellow School on GCI were scanned at GCIHS. (The Town offices were once housed at the Longfellow School.) Scanned records include: An 1831 liquor license; School expenses; Overseers of the poor documents; Town meeting warrants; Voting lists; Appointments to town offices; Payments for services; Militia Records; Certificates of marriage; Lists of persons residing in town including birth dates and occupations; Requests for permits for fishing weirs A total of 501 scans were made of documents from 41 Town of CI folders on a flatbed, legal-size scanner at 300 dpi. The digital scans are available on DVD along with a printed copy of thumbnail images and a report explaining the scanning project. Researchers should also note that these Town documents were analyzed and highlighted in Charles McLane’s Islands of the Mid-Maine Coast - pages 58-74, 1989 edition. Box 1: Project binder with report, thumbnails printed out, DVD with scans. Folders with originals of scanned documents 1831-1855. Box 2: Folders with originals of scanned documents 1856-1955. Box 3: Folders with original documents, not scanned, many subjects and years including weirs 1939. Box 4: Folders with original documents, not scanned, mostly 1950s, many topics including schools. Box 5: Original documents, not scanned, mostly 1930s-1950s, many topics including dog licenses and receipt books. Copies provided to the Town of CI and the Maine State Library. [show more] | |||
| Cranberry Isles Life Saving Station Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Cranberry Isles Life Saving Station Southwest Harbor Public Library 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] | ||
| US Life-Saving Service Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| US Life-Saving Service Southwest Harbor Public Library 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] | |||
| Gotts Island Methodist Church Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Gotts Island Methodist Church Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| West Tremont School Cornerstone Baptist Church Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  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. | ||
| The Works Progress Administration (WPA) Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| The Works Progress Administration (WPA) Southwest Harbor Public Library 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] | |||
| Southwest Harbor Police Department Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Southwest Harbor Police Department Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Old Marsh School Head of the Harbor School Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Description: The “Old Marsh School,” officially known as the “District 6” school, and was discontinued many years before it was torn down in 1936. |