Mount Desert Island Historical Society Bicentennial Committee
Collection:
MDI Historical Society
Date:
1961
Description: Three typewritten pages of Bicentennial Notes pertaining to 1) German ship Kronprinzessin Cecilie in Bar Harbor, 2)Otter Cliff Radio Station, 3) Jordan Pond House, and 4)churches of Bar Harbor.
Description: Two typewritten pages of Bicentennial Notes pertaining to 1) Daniel Somes, 2) John Somes, MV Bluenose ferry, 3) Dr. L. Sherman Cleaves, veterinarian, and 4) Madame "Grannie" Milliken.
Description: Two typewritten pages of Bicentennial Notes pertaining to 1) DeGregoire's, 2) Battle of Norwood's Cove, and 3) Mt. Desert Island land grants.
Description: Two page typewritten Bicentennial Notes pertaining to 1) Colby's Atlas of Hancock County,Maine, 2) Bass Harbor Head Light, 3) Schooner Head and 4) 1900 visit of British ship HMS Quail to Bar Harbor.
Description: Two typewritten pages of Bicentennial Notes pertaining to 1) peddlers visiting Mt. Desert Island, 2) formal gardens on Mt. Desert Island, 3) Russian steamship Cimbria, 4) Davies yacht, Sea Cloud, and 5) buildng cost of Cadillac Mountain Road.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society Bicentennial Committee
Collection:
MDI Historical Society
Date:
1961
Description: Three pages of typewritten notes pertaining to 1) German spies on Mt. Desert Island during WW II, 2) village of Town Hill, 3) development of buildings on Green [later Cadillac] Mountain, 4)Green Mountain Railway and connecting steamship, Wauwinnet.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society Bicentennial Committee
Collection:
MDI Historical Society
Date:
1961
Description: Three typewritten pages of Bicentennial Notes pertaining to 1) Somesville Bicentennial, 2) haying of Bass Harbor Marsh hay, and 3) boatbuilding on Mt. Desert Island.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society Bicentennial Committee
Collection:
MDI Historical Society
Date:
1961
Description: Two typewritten pages of Bicentennial Notes pertaining to 1) mountains of Mt. Desert Island and 2) the Eben M. Hamor Manuscript, an historical document dealing with Mt. Desert Island history.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society Bicentennial Committee
Collection:
MDI Historical Society
Date:
1961
Description: Three typewritten pages of Bicentennial Notes pertaining to 1) hotels of Bar Harbor during the Golden Era and 2) construction of the breakwater off Bald Porcupine Island and 3) home remedies.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society Bicentennial Committee
Collection:
MDI Historical Society
Date:
1961
Description: Two typewritten pages of Bicentennial Notes (third page missing) pertaining to 1) Bar Harbor Fire Department, 2) Mount Desert Island Historical Society scrapbooks information.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society Bicentennial Committee
Collection:
MDI Historical Society
Date:
1961
Description: Three typwritten pages of Bicentennial Notes entitled Baymeath Part II. These notes include testimony as to how an affluent household operated on Mount Desert Island and the ownership historically of the Baymeath estate.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society Bicentennial Committee
Collection:
MDI Historical Society
Date:
1961
Description: Four typewritten pages of Bicentennial Notes pertaining to 1) the status of Mount Desert Island in 1871, 2) Sargent Drive, 3) Egg Rock gun emplacements.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society Bicentennial Committee
Collection:
MDI Historical Society
Date:
1961
Description: Twenty-eight pages of handwritten and typewritten notes pertaining to the planning of the Somesville Bicentennial Celebration of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society Bicentennial Committee
Collection:
MDI Historical Society
Date:
1961
Description: Ten pages of handwritten and typewritten notes of the Bicentennial Committee pertaining to the planning of programs and activities for the celebration of the Somesville Bicentennial.
Description: Seven handwritten pages of meeting notes pertaining to proposed donation of Virginia Somes Sanderson's historical Somesville house to the MDI Historical Society for use as a museum.
Description: Notes created by the MDI Historical Society regarding the Virginia Somes Sanderson house, which Sanderson proposed to donate to the Society for use as a museum. Sanderson's own notes are appended to the original.
MDI Historical Society Committee on V. Sanderson Gift
Collection:
MDI Historical Society
Date:
1968
Description: Typewritten draft and final report of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society Committee on the V. Sanderson proposed gift of her home to the Society. Committee proposed acceptance of the gift with modifications to conditions.
Description: Typewritten agenda and handwritten notes of the Board of Directors of the MDI Historical Society meeting. Consideration of refusal of the proposed gift of the Virginia Somes Sanderson house and discussion of the future of the Society.
Description: 5 handwritten letters of congratulations on taking over editorship Letter frorm Nancy Greenough (Mrs. Alfred) congratulating on Bar Harbor Times Previously archived as 012.FIC.023.4, **1317, **1319, **1320, **1321, **1322, **1323
Description: Spiker is sending pictures to Miss Mary Drinker, Editor of Frontiers related to her article on Patuxent Previously archived as 012.FIC.023.17