Description: Magazine issue with article dedicated to Skylands home in Seal Harbor Maine, formerly Ford home built in 1939, includes photographs. September 2000 page 256
Description: Legal Black Binder:Copy of the Earliest Records of the Island of Mount Desert and Vital records : An index to the Early Records of the Town of Mount Desert
Description: Legal Black Binder:Copies of Mount Desert Town Records 1821-1841 Intentions and Marriages,1847-52; Town Meeting Records 1847-50;Records of Intentions and Marriages 1853-89; Misc. Ref to Pretty Marsh roads and Taxes to 1860s.
Description: Republication of Bar Harbor Record news items in Bar Harbor Times, . Compiled by Deborah Dyer of the Bar Harbor Historical Society, 8/15/1999.The speech that eben Hamor gave at the centennial celebrations of the Eden Baptist Church. An excellent history of the island
Description: Red Binder: Copies of Commissioners’ Proceedings at Mount Desert, 1808Records of the First Church of Mount Desert, Maine 1792-1867Guide books:The Handbook of Mount Desert; Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island; Chisholm’s Mount Desert GuideTraditions and RecordsStory of Mt. DesertMount Desert, A HistoryMaine Families in 1790Maine FortsOld Hancock County FamiliesInventory of the Towns and Cities of MaineMisc.
Description: Miscellaneous papers related to the formation of the MDI Regional High School from 1948 - 1949. Includes surveys, letters to the editor, letters to Rockefeller, pta minutes, general correspondence
Description: Mount Desert Island article p.81 “A Summer Full of Flowers” by Jane Lamb written about the gardens of Mary Louis Jenkins photographs by Brian Vanden Brink
Description: photo greeting card of home in snow with hand-written greeting on back: Good cheer for the holidays. May the blessing of peace be with us before another Christmas season. All good wishes from N.C. Thornton
Description: Brown Binder: Copies of Military Records 1812; Cattle and Sheep Marks 1826-83;Roads in Pretty Marsh 1864-1885; Perambulation of Town Line between Eden and Mount Desert 1871; Heads of Families at the first Census, Maine 1790; Reader Corrects Data from 1820 Census of Mt. Desert and Eden;Hazel Hammond Notebooks 1790-
Description: A copy of a map of the Path and Road for the Eastern Part of Mount Desert Island, Maine. Originally compiled by Waldron Bates, Edward L. Rand and Herbert Jaques. Revised and published by William Jay Turner in 1941. Shows Main Trails Graded, Other Trails, Old Woods Road, and the Carrriage Roads.
Description: A 1937 map signed by George B. Dorr titled U.S. Department of the Interior - National Park Service. R.D.P - Acadia Extension on the Western Half of the Island. Part of the Master Plan for Acadia National Park. Drawing number NP-ACA 1109-4. Shows Bartlett Island, Somes Pond, Oak Hill, Round Pound, Squid Cove, Rum Island, Hall Quarry, Indian Point, Goose Marsh Harbor, Pretty Marsh, Echo Lake, Seal Cove, West Tremont, Kelly Town, Bass Harbor, Southwest Harbor, and more. Cream paper with brown ink . This appears to be a contemporary ( 1937 ca.) sepia reproduction/ print. ( this note added in 2011 by Vasisko) [show more]
Description: A copy of map named Path and Road Map of the Western Part of Mount Desert Island, Maine. Orignally compiled by Waldron Bates, Edward L. Rand and Herbert Jaques. Revised and published by William Jay Turner. 1941.Shows Main Trails Graded, Other Trails, Old Woods Road, and the Carriage Roads.