Description: Minutes of meeting of Directors of the Mount Desert Bridge Corporation ordering repairs to be done by William Thompson due to damage by wind and sea in storm.
Description: Building and land use permit applications and building permit for construction of footbridge between two MDI Historical Society buildings in Somesville.
Description: Petition to Mount Desert Bridge Corporation from Simeon Milliken to allow clergy relief from tolls. Note:” Voted una: that it is inexpendient to act upon it”.
Description: May 1956 plan for reconstructing bridge. 1837 contract and plan of tollhouse. Pencil drawing of bridge and intro. (but not body) of apparent petition by cetisans [sic] and patrons of the post office at West Trenton. 1917 blueprint for bridge, Maine Highway Commission. 1918 plan showing New England T&T Co., Pole and submarine line along south approach to Mt. Desert Bridge-Trenton 1918 plan showing new line of right of way at south end of bridge. 1918 plan showing change in alignment and land taken for new right of way at approach to Mt. Desert Narrows. [show more]
Description: Hand-drawn plan of Thompson Island, 1895, showing High Head, Spruce Head, Bathing Cove, Eastern Point; location of ice pond, ice house, house, hen house, Goose pond, old store; Flying Place Bridge, Mt. Desert Bridge.
Description: Bond of $8000 - Contractors to build a bridge across Mount Desert Narows - to John Black for Mt. Desert Bridge Corporation signed by William Thompson, John M. Noyes, Edward Brewer and Joel Emery.
Description: Notice about the Mount Desert Bidge in Trenton. Bridge dedicated with memorial tablet to veterans. There are a number of hand written notes glued to the back of the photocopied notice. Previously archived as 011.FIC.58.2
Description: Newspaper clipping of Somesville bridge newly-erected by the Mount Desert Island Historical Society. Article published in the News Ellsworth Bureau.
Description: Article about the Mount Desert Island Historcal Society Annual meeting and the stories which were told by long time residents of the Island. Information presented went as far back as 1899. From the Bar Harbor Times August 26, 1965