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You searched for: Object ID: is not emptyDate: 1980sSubject: OtherSubject: Somesville
Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
14775Letter from Sanderson to President of the MDI Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Other, Bridges
  • Other, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Other, Somesville
  • Virginia Somes Sanderson
  • 1981
Description:
Typewritten letter from Sanderson concerning details of her proposed donation of money to fund construction of a bridge to connect old and new MDI Historical Society buildings in Somesville.
3755Official Documents pertaining to Footbridge Construction in Somesville
  • Document, Permission, Permit
  • Other, Bridges
  • Other, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Other, Somesville
  • Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • 1981
Description:
Building and land use permit applications and building permit for construction of footbridge between two MDI Historical Society buildings in Somesville.
18621Life on Tinker Island
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Daniel Somes Tavern
  • Other, Fishing
  • Other, Kate L. Pray Schooner
  • Other, Schooners
  • Other, Somesville
  • Structures, Factory, Textile Mill, Woolen Mill
  • 8/5/1982
Description:
From the Ellsworth American August 5, 1982. This is an excerpt from the book Islands of the Mid-Maine Coast: Penobscot and blue Hill Bays. Talks about the earliest name of the island, who John Robinson was, other people who claimed the island. geneology of the Tinkers, commercial activity on Tinker Island.
18620Mount Desert Island History
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Daniel Somes Tavern
  • Other, Fishing
  • Other, Kate L. Pray Schooner
  • Other, Schooners
  • Other, Somesville
  • Structures, Factory, Textile Mill, Woolen Mill
  • 8/5/1982
Description:
Article on three pieces of paper about Mount Desert Island History; Native American History, small outer islands, Sutton's Island, Joseph Moore, Joseph Lancaster, Isaac Richardson, William and Joseph Moore, John Gilley
18597Bar Harbor Struggles with Big City Problems
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Development
  • Other, Economic & social conditions
  • Other, Somesville
  • Other, Southwest Harbor
  • Other, Tremont
  • Other, Trenton
  • Bar Harbor Times
  • 1987
Description:
Supplement to the Bar Harbor Times, each including several artices, pertaining to development in the towns of Mt. Desert Island and Trenton. Bar Harbor Struggles with Big City Problems; Previously archived as object Id 012.FIC.043.4
3898Annual Report, Somesville Village Improvement Society
  • Document, Report, Annual Report
  • Other, Dams
  • Other, Mill Pond
  • Other, Ponds
  • Other, Somesville
  • Other, Village Improvement Society
  • 1984
Description:
Revised statement of purpose, Mill Pond Dam conveyed to VIS from Virginia Somes Sanderson, plan to restore outlet dam and fishway at Somes Pond.
17186The Living Past: Being the Story of Somesville Mount Desert, Maine and Its Relationship with Other Areas of the Island
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Mount Desert
  • Other, Somesville
  • Somes-Sanderson, Virginia
  • Beech Hill Publishing Company
  • 1982
Description:
History of Somesville from approximately 1760s-1980s
14649Traditions and Records: Southwest Harbor, and Somesville -- Mount Desert Island, Maine.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Somesville
  • Other, Southwest Harbor
  • Thornton, Mrs. Seth
  • Acadia Publishing Co.
  • 1988
12596The Living Past: Being the Story of Somesville Mount Desert, Maine and Its Relationships with Other Areas of the Island
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • Other, Somesville
  • Somes-Sanderson, Virginia
  • Beech Hill Publishing Co.
  • 1982.
Description:
As the author says in the preamble, " This is the story...of the first permanent settlement on Mount Desert Island..." ?At one time Somesville had seven mills, five shipyards, four blacksmith shops, two stores, and ...serv[ed] the entire area and outlying islands."
3896Agenda, VIS
  • Document, Agenda
  • Other, Somesville
  • Other, Village Improvement Society
  • 1985
Description:
Agenda for undated meeting of VIS; indicates film to be shown on preserving American Elm.
2778Tremont, a Small Town Experiences Growing Pressure
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Development
  • Other, Economic & social conditions
  • Other, Somesville
  • Other, Southwest Harbor
  • Other, Tremont
  • Other, Trenton
  • Bar Harbor Times
  • 1987
Description:
Supplement to the Bar Harbor Times, each including several artices, pertaining to development in the towns of Mt. Desert Island and Trenton. Tremont, a Small Town Experiences Growing Pressure Previously archived as object Id 012.FIC.043.4