Mount Desert & Adjacent Islands, Embracing the Towns of Eden, Mount Desert, Tremont, Cranberry Isles

Identifier:
12473  
Object ID:
006.49.1
Catalog:
Archives
Title:
Mount Desert & Adjacent Islands, Embracing the Towns of Eden, Mount Desert, Tremont, Cranberry Isles
Type:
Subject:
Other, Mount Desert Island, Eden, Tremont, Cranberry Isles, Mount Desert Rock
Description:
Reproduction of a map from Colby's Atlas of Hancock County (1881). Contains text descriptions of Mount Desert Island, Cranberry Isles and Mount Desert Rock with specific references to their locations in relation to Mount Desert Island, Maine. It shows, with lesser emphasis, the place names: Bar Harbor, SW Harbor, NE Harbor.

Contains enlarged window showing Mount Desert Village (Somesville).

Description of MDI mentions the incorporation in 1838 of "Seaville," a group of islands that included Bartlett's, Robinson's and Hardwood Islands in 1838. This incorporation was repealed in 1859.
Publisher:
Colby's Atlas of Hancock County; copy made by Mark Miller in 1974
Date:
1881
Collection:
Map Collection

Citation

“Mount Desert & Adjacent Islands, Embracing the Towns of Eden, Mount Desert, Tremont, Cranberry Isles,” Mount Desert Island Historical Society, accessed January 7, 2025, https://mdihs.digitalarchive.us/items/show/12107.Item 12473

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