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2308History of Mt. Desert
  • Publication, Literary, History
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.
2502A Pioneer Family: The Richardsons of Mount Desert
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Other, Marriage
  • Hamblen, Charles F
  • 1976
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.
2508First Permanent Settler: Abraham Somes
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Settlements
  • Sawtelle, William Otis
  • 1926
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.
2510Description of Cape Cod towns
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Other, Barnstable, MA
  • Other, Dennis, MA
  • Other, Eastham, MA
  • Other, Yarmouth, MA
Description:
Photocopied text from unknown source describing towns of Cape Cod: Dennis, Yarmouth, Barnstable and Eastham where Mayo's settled.
2523The Bloomfield Smith House
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Richard Allen
  • 06/23/1990
Description:
Document explaining the history of the Bloomfield Smith House, written by Richard Allen. Includes an image of the house.
3027History of Mt. Desert Lodge, No. 140, of Free and Accepted Masons, Mt. Desert, Maine from February 14, 1867 - February 14, 1871
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • E.M. Hamor
  • 1871
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.
3029History of Tremont Lodge, No. 77
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Other, History - Miscellaneous
  • Other, Lodges
Description:
History of Tremont Lodge, No. 77, Free and Accepted Masons, Tremont, Me., From 1854 to 1871. By, Andrew ____ (cover is torn)
3038Mount Desert Larger Parish in Maine, 1925-1950, Twenty-five Years Together
  • Publication, Literary, History
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.
3045Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations: An Historical Sketch and a Record...
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • 1939
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
3052Acadia National Park: Random Notes on the Significance of the Name
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Sawtelle, William Otis
  • 1929
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.
3061Mount Desert Island Cultural History Project
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Other, Business enterprises
  • Other, Cottages
  • Other, Deed
  • Other, Hotels
  • Other, Monuments & memorials
  • Dec. 29 2009
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.
3062The Claremont Hotel--My Story, 1884-1964
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Other, Claremont Hotel
  • Other, Hotels
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
3065One Mote
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Other, England
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Kirkham, Irene L
Description:
Booklet photocopy with historical and biographical information on Middleton-Cheney, Northamptonshire, England, origin of ancestors of the Mayo Family.
3088"The Mount Desert Larger Parish: A Church Co-op That Works", a 12-page booklet by Leigh Mitchell Hodges written in 1942.
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Other, Churches
  • Other, Mount Desert
  • 1942
Description:
"The Mount Desert Larger Parish: A Church Co-op That Works", a 12-page booklet by Leigh Mitchell Hodges written in 1942.
3112These Hundred Years
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Other, Churches
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
  • Other, History - Somesville
  • 1/1/1925
Description:
These Hundred Years History of the Hancock Association of Congregational Churches and Ministers 1825 -1925 Compiled by George S. Brookes Includes the history of Congregational Churches on Mount Desert Island Two Copies
3117These Hundred Years
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • 02/09/2010
Description:
History of The Hancock Association of Congregational Churches and Ministers (1825-1925)
3891Guide to and history of St. John the Baptist Parish Church, Thorpe Mandeville, England
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Other, England
  • Structures, Ceremonial, Church
  • Humfrey, Algernon G
  • Unknown
Description:
Photocopy of history and description of St John the Baptist Parish Church, Thorpe Mandeville, England
3969Libraries
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Other, Libraries
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]
3984History of the Eden Baptist Church, 1799-1949
  • Publication, Literary, History
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]
3998Town of Mount Desert in the Civil War; 1st Maine Heavy Artillery
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Other, Civil wars
Description:
Lists and statistics
4006Summary
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Eliot, Charles
  • 1881
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
4413Morris Somes Arrrival in Gloucester
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Other, Emigration & immigration
Description:
Handwritten note speculating on ways in which Morris Somes arrived at Cape Ann, Massachusetts, from England.
4414Odd Fellows History
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • 1963
Description:
Journal of Proceedings
4424First Church of Mount Desert Church Records 1792-1867
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Other, Baptisms
  • Structures, Ceremonial, Church
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,
4425Notes on History of Somesville, Maine
  • Publication, Literary, History
  • Other, Historic buildings
  • Other, History
  • Other, Somesville
  • Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Four pages of handwritten notes on the history of Somesville, ME, drawn from the book, "The Living Past" authored by Virginia Somes Sanderson.