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Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
16732Request for road through Pretty Marsh
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Other, Cemeteries
  • Other, Pretty Marsh
  • Other, Roads
  • Other, Schools
  • 1839
Description:
1. 1839 petition, commission survey related to request for road from Seal Cove through Pretty Marsh to Narrows; second request of 1843. 2. Personal letter from "Betty" about arriving in Pretty Marsh, fishing; reference to Mrs. Rumill's home and Edna (no date). 3. Compositions by Linnie (?) Smith: "Work", "House Cleaning", "The object of attending school", "Ice". Also "Verses for Otto". 4. Pencilled notes by Linda Florence (Smith) Foote on brown paper about store, post office on Pretty Marsh; Bar, Tinker, Hardwood, Bartletts Islands. 4. Note about Israel Atherton and family. 5. Letter from Elizabeth C. Wescott of Blue Hill to Mrs. Hysom, 1980, concerning area families' histories. 6. Photo. of stone from Pretty Marsh cemetery inscribed "Hear [sic] lies the body of James Pray was drowned 1784 (?) 7. 1968 newspaper ad. for bids to "purchase and remove woodshed at Pretty Marsh schoolhouse." 8. Newspaper clippings about charges against Judge Darius L. V. Moffett (no date). 9. Copies of photographs of Mary Anna Smith, Capt. Sewell Smith, Reuben Smith, Lois Bartlett Smith. [show more]
14071Reminiscences of Somesville
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Object, Telegraph
  • Other, History - Somesville
  • Other, Roads
  • Other, Schools
Description:
All by Adelma Somes Joy: “Somes Sound must have been one beautiful place." Recalls arrival of Abraham Somes, the oak trees on oak hill, Ebenezer Sutton, and Denning’s Pond. "Years ago when we had the telegraph..." Recalls advances in technology, balloons, and flight. Northeast Harbor Women's Literary Club talk , Jan. 30, 1920. Plans to travel abroad, give clothing to naked Africans, open beauty parlor. "That Old Reed House." Mrs. Reed was her grandfather's sister; house near Jim's Cove. "My first recollections of life..." Recalls her grandparents' house in 1838. Also separate essay, "Grandfather's House." Reminiscences of Somesville #6. Recalls naming of Somesville, old roads, school house, industry, and tanning pits. Two Letters from Adelma Somes Joy to Harriet Somes Sanderson, Aug. 10, 1929. recalls Col. Black House in Ellsworth, Episcopal Church at Seal Cove, Bp. Manning, church sales, other historical notes. "Memories" of her father. History of Somes and Richardson families. [show more]
13589Reminiscence of Somesville
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Other, Churches
  • Other, History - Somesville
  • Other, Indians of North America
  • Other, Mills
  • Other, Roads
  • Other, Schools
  • Other, Shoemaking
  • Other, Singing
  • Other, Tanning
Description:
Adelma Somes Joy recalls Somesville’s Red school house in 1847. Includes description of the interior and student pranks. Also the tale of Sam Slick. Also Singing School; Indians Camping at Somesville, two poems (one alludes to a suicide), Churches on Mt. Desert (1840), That Old Tannery (recalls Daniel and Lewis Somes, Israel Haven, John Keniston and Somesvilles' cobbler shop), That Old Factory (woolen mill), That Old Road [over Beech Hill], (1837), That Upper Gate (kept water back when not needed to turn mill wheels)--all by Adelma Somes Joy. "The Indian Violin Player" by Eunice Deering. [show more]
3947Roads--Somesville and Vicinity
  • Document, Document File
  • Other, Roads
  • Other, Somesville
Description:
1868 document imposing fine (amount unreadable) on Town of Mt. Desert for failure to repair road. 1869 plan for "town way" as requested by John Richardson, way to cross land owned by David Wasgatt. 1871 request to selectmen for damages from H. Carpenter of Dedham due to his horse and wagon "droping into a hole" [sic] covered with snow. 1871 request to selectmen of town of Mt. Desert for a road to the quarry; approval granted. 1872 request for road from meeting house hill to steam mill; description and plan of same.1871 1873 document about repairing Pretty Marsh road. 1963 correspondence relating to reconstructing route 102 in Somesville area. [show more]