Description: History of Mount Desert recounted with important dates and descriptions of the events. Includes additional sections "Manners & Customs", "Population", and "The Church". In pencil is written "From Somesville + Southwest Harbor", some additional notes in pencil are made in the margins. Undated.
Description: Portion of Maine Historical Society Prize Essay, 1976, pertaining to 1770 incident between crew member of a Royal Navy ship and a local Bunker young woman.
Description: Singe page photocopy of partial article from "Sprague's Journal of Maine History", Vol. 14. Text describes the settlement of Mount Desert Island by Abraham Somes.
Description: History of the Mt. Desert Masonic Ledge from 1867-1871 by E.M. Hamor. Published in Portland by Stephen Berry, Printer in 1871. Includes history of the Lodge's origins, roll of original members, and a list of members.
Description: 13-page booklet describing history of the "larger parish" formed in 1925 when churches in Seal Harbor and Northeast Harbor were without pastors at same time. John D. Rockefeller Jr. influential in establishing this concept.
Description: of the Holdings of the Trustees. Gives brief record of origin and activities of the Hancock Co. Trustees of Public reservations; trustees include Incorporators George B. Dorr, Luere B. Deasy, John S. Kennedy, George L. Stebbins, Edward B. Mears, Lea McI. Luquer, Charles W. Eliot, Loren E. Kimball
Description: Discusses the change from Lafayette National Park to Acadia National Park so that the name describes the area more accurately, reflecting popular ideas about the park.
Description: Mount Desert Island Cultural History Project: Website Listings as of 29 December, 2009, compiled by Thomas Vining (www.vfthomas.com) White loose-leaf binder references businesses and professions, cottages, deeds, hotels and borading houses, markers, monuments, and memorials. Information through mid-1900s; gives references to advertisements in local newspapers.
Description: 7-page typewritten booklet, written by "the hotel." Mentions other hotels on MDI at time, how travelers got there, first owners Jesse and Grace Clark Pease, subsequent owner Dr. J.D. Phillips, then his son Lawrence Phillips
Description: Booklet photocopy with historical and biographical information on Middleton-Cheney, Northamptonshire, England, origin of ancestors of the Mayo Family.
Description: These Hundred Years History of the Hancock Association of Congregational Churches and Ministers 1825 -1925 Compiled by George S. BrookesIncludes the history of Congregational Churches on Mount Desert Island Two Copies
Description: History of Somesville Library Association including account of "shingling bee" to install roof, By-Laws of Mt. Desert Library Society, 1914 special meeting notes re death of Mary Somes, Minutes of 1956 annual meeting, 1905 application for incorporation of Mt. Desert Library Society and response from Justice of the Peace, undated list of library books, 1974 list of classical records donated, Program for new library Open House, 1974, Northeast Harbor Library annual report, 1997, Essay, "The New Library," undated, no author given, Chronology by Emily Smith, secretary, beginning with 1904. Composition book, Mt. Desert Library Society, Records of meetings, 1932-1952. [show more]
Description: Photocopies of the History of the Eden Baptist Church, 1799-1949, by Mrs. Francis Clark Grindle (which includes copies of handwritten church records). Names in the history include: Young, Emery, Grindle, Mayo, Leland, Eaton, Higgins, Hull, Hamor, Thomas, Hadley, Lord, Merrill, Huntting, Gilkley, Cary, Rich, Herrick, DeLaittre, Paine, Hamilton, Rockefeller, Hodgkins, Snow, Case, Murphy, Smallidge, Stanwood, Haynes, Thompson, Wasgatt, Stetson, Jackson, Swett, and Salisbury. [show more]
Description: A single sheet summary of early explorers of the New England Coast 1498-1759. This sheet was found in "Charles Eliot's notes on the early explorers of the New England coast." item 005.17.19
Description: Mount Desert Church Records, Vol. 73 of ? Source N.E. Genealogical Society, Boston. Short history of church from its founding on Oct 17, 1792. List founders, those later admitted and deaths. Record of baptisms. At end list members of those connected to the Congregational Church in Temont, Mt. Desert, and Eden in 1857,
Description: Four pages of handwritten notes on the history of Somesville, ME, drawn from the book, "The Living Past" authored by Virginia Somes Sanderson.