Description: Summer 1995-Summer 1996 Programs: Preserving Historic Lancscapes, Elizabeth Igleheart, Maine Preservation Commission, June 1995 Brookside Cemetery Tour, Oct. 1995 Boat Building on MDI during WWII, Ralph Stanley, Nov. 1995 Genealogy Research, Connee Jellison, Jan. 1998 Preservation Workshop, Jan.- Mar. 1996 School Days in the 1850's, June 1996 Preserving an Historic Harbor (conservation easements), David MacDonald, Maine Coast Heritage Trust, Lee Patterson, Peter Blanchard, Aug. 1996 Sept. 1996-Sept. 1997 Tour of Museum and Historic Lewis Somes House for National Trust for Historic Preservation, Sept. 21, 1996 History of Brookside Cemetery for MD Elementary School 5th Graders, Oct. 29, 1996 School Days in the 1850's, Harbor House (SW Harbor), K-4th graders, Nov. 7, 1996 Women Underway, Steamships and the Army Nurse Corps, WWII, Nov. 14, 1996 Lighthouses of the Maine Coast, Ken Black, Maine Lighthouse Museum (with Great Harbor Museum), Dec. 6, 1996 MID Historical Society, 65th Birthday Party, Historic Mount Desert Tavern (home of Bill and Betty Reiff, Somesville), Dec. 19, 1996 Fun and Games in 19th c., Harbor House, K-4th grade, Jan. 1997 "Pardon my Dust," benefit performance by Kathleen Lake, COA, Jan. 26, 1997 Hands-on Archival Care, Collections' care in the home, Feb. 15, 1997 Charter Signing, meeting of Mount Desert Selectmen at James Richardson House do commemorate signing of original town charter, Feb. 16, 1997 Heirloom Seeds, Mar. 1997 House Histories (with Tremont Historical Society) using architecture and paper records, May 1997 Publication of Charles Tracy diary, lecture on works of Frederick Church, Claremont Hotel, Summer 1997 John Gilley and Charles W. Eliot, June-Oct. Special Museum Exhibit Lecture by Dr. Richard Judd on Environmental History of Maine Coast, with COA, Summer 1997 Ballard's Boats: At work and play on Mt. Desert Island, June 1997 , NEH Library. Includes panel discussion with Ralph Stanley, Richard Lunt, Paul Stubing Strawberry Festival (and book sale), July 10th History of Automobile and its effect on Mt. Desert; traveling exhibit in cooperation with COA, Fall 1997 Field Course in old house restoration, Oc. 26 and 27; Nov. 1 and 2, 1997 1999: Restoring Old Apple Trees, Stephen page, April 1999 Kitchen Gardens in early 19th c., Christie White, May 1, 1999 [show more]
Description: Somes Family Tree made on the back of a large 1973 wall calendar. Had wooden strip for hanging (strip missing) . 12 pages total Photocopies of the pages are also in the folder, separated from the originals by tissue. Photocopies have not been catalogued.
Description: mortgage discharge, Charles N. Chatto to Daniel M. Grindle, 1914 Warranttee deed to property on Long Island from Nathan Staples to Merrill Dodge scanned 1850 Mortgage from Daniel Grindle to AP Harden 1879 scanned -1882 deed from Lovey M. Anderson to Daniel M. Grindle -1882 deed from Lydia A. Gilly to Daniel M. Grindle - -1887 deed from Charles N. Chatto to Daniel M. Grindle Map of Long Island residents hand drawn handwritten notes related to deeds [show more]
Description: Green Binder: Copies of Reminiscences of Somesville by Adelma F. Joy; Excerpts from The Island of Mount Desert Register 1909-1910;Annual Report of Town Officers of Mount Desert, ME 1900,1910, 1911 - 1916 and 1931
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: Listed expenses and individual documents inserted between pages and in archival envelopes for such items as plowing, subscriptions to Ellsworth American, Maine Farmer; carding wool; request to buy fruit trees from Chase Bros. in Rochester, NY; tax bills; payments to Lewis Somes; flyer for an "eclectic remedy for internal and external use"; hand-written prescription; 1891 bill for doctor's vist = $1.00; 1877 letter from female children relinquishing any claims on property and designating same to whichever brother assumed responsibility for aging for Dr. and Mrs. Kittredge; l868 letter from William to his brother Ernest; record of births and deaths of Kittredges [show more]
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: Typewritten Docs on the Rodick family for an essay LaRue Spiker was writing. Excerpt from Story of Bar Harbor, 1949; 50 years ago Bar Harbor Record excerpt (nd); genealogy of Rodicks; 4 pp; 9pp on the Rodick House Previously archived as #012.FIC.005.6
Description: Type written notes which are background information for an article LaRue Spiker was writting. Appears to be oral history by EMH wh was the mail carrier (postman) from the Narrows (head of the Mount Desert Island to Southwest Harbor) from 1836 to 1837; discusses other post offices p. 11 Dodge Poem regarding Ship's Harbor by Col. James Crockett, Rockland Account by Viola Mace about her Grandmother Robinson account of meeting an Indian named, Big Wolf.Account is from Ansel Mace in 1970, Southwest Harbor Genealogy of Daniel Gott and Rachel Littlefield Genealogy of William Lawler as written by Mrs. Eugene Theriault Discussion of Battle of Norwood Cove, 1812 Interview with John Carroll (1960) Discussion of Estelle Benson Stanley to get funding for the educatin of lighthouse keepers children, called the Superintendent of light house children and Work among Light House Station Superintendent (appears to be a department of Maine government) Previously archived as 012.FIC.005.2 [show more]
Description: Background notes for LaRue Spiker Article (Somesville) Genealogy of Richardson Family, Jane Montgomery beginning with James Richardson 1730 and Rachel Gott 1730, Ezra Dodge joined First Maine Heavy Artillery, correspondent for the Herald Previously archived as 012.FIC.005.1
Description: Scrapbook of information from Eden Maine (now Salisbury Cove) with genealogies and reproductions of newsclippings, obituaries, letters and other documents. Letter asking not to divide town of Eden. Names include: Bunker, McFarland, Lurvey, Richardson, Somes, Heath, Boynton Haynes Cemetery in West Trenton Obituary Mrs Charles Pettingill, 1907 Dates of events recorded by Nicholas Thomas, Salisbury Cove 1837-1844 Appears to be photocopies of documents [show more]
Description: Mayo genealogy records from various sources. Includes children of Joseph Mayo and Ruth Snow Mayo, originally of Eastham, MA, and later of Mount Desert, ME.