The buckboard is stopped on the road between Southwest Harbor and Somesville, now Route 102. The view is looking west across Echo Lake to Beach Cliffs.
Description: The buckboard is stopped on the road between Southwest Harbor and Somesville, now Route 102. The view is looking west across Echo Lake to Beach Cliffs.
The label on the back of the painting reads: Oil Painting by Howe D. Higgins Harborside Studio, Southwest Harbor, Maine Member of: The Art League of Maine Name of picture: Autumn Scene No. 68-50 Note: This painting may be cleaned with a damp cloth.
Description: The label on the back of the painting reads: Oil Painting by Howe D. Higgins Harborside Studio, Southwest Harbor, Maine Member of: The Art League of Maine Name of picture: Autumn Scene No. 68-50 Note: This painting may be cleaned with a damp cloth.
Usage courtesy of Great Cranberry Island Historical Society (gcihs.org), From “Cranberry Road: Great Cranberry Island 1919-1950” by Wini Smart, Bruce Komusin and Betty Hartley, Copyright 2002, 2003 by Wini Smart.
Description: Usage courtesy of Great Cranberry Island Historical Society (gcihs.org), From “Cranberry Road: Great Cranberry Island 1919-1950” by Wini Smart, Bruce Komusin and Betty Hartley, Copyright 2002, 2003 by Wini Smart.
“It was nearly twenty years after Abraham Somes came with his family to make his home at Somesville before William Gilley, first permanent settler in Southwest Harbor, built his log cabin at Norwood's Cove on land now owned by the Southwest Harbor Country Club and which remained in the Gilley family from William's time to the date of selling to the present owners. William Gilley was at Cranberry Isles in 1777 and it was probably four or five years after that date that he went to Southwest Harbor and took up land, which was sheltered from the sea though close to it.” - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 124. “The house now used as a Country Club house was the home of the Gilley family. William Gilley was the first permanent settler in Southwest Harbor and his first house was a log cabin near the shore. Later he built a house just north of the Gilley Burying Ground. Then John, William's grandson, the eldest son of Benjamin Gilley, built the house that is now the Country Club for his parents. He was under age and for his work on the house his father "gave him his time." The place passed from father to son in the Gilley family until Pedrick D. Gilley, fourth generation to own it, sold it to the present owners. The graves of the three generations preceding him are in the Gilley Burying Ground nearby.” - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 131.
Description: “It was nearly twenty years after Abraham Somes came with his family to make his home at Somesville before William Gilley, first permanent settler in Southwest Harbor, built his log cabin at Norwood's Cove on land now owned by the Southwest Harbor Country Club and which remained in the Gilley family from William's time to the date of selling to the present owners. William Gilley was at Cranberry Isles in 1777 and it was probably four or five years after that date that he went to Southwest Harbor and took up land, which was sheltered from the sea though close to it.” - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 124. “The house now used as a Country Club house was the home of the Gilley family. William Gilley was the first permanent settler in Southwest Harbor and his first house was a log cabin near the shore. Later he built a house just north of the Gilley Burying Ground. Then John, William's grandson, the eldest son of Benjamin Gilley, built the house that is now the Country Club for his parents. He was under age and for his work on the house his father "gave him his time." The place passed from father to son in the Gilley family until Pedrick D. Gilley, fourth generation to own it, sold it to the present owners. The graves of the three generations preceding him are in the Gilley Burying Ground nearby.” - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 131. [show more]
As of 2019, the Tom Cat market no longer occupies the second building on the left. The fourth building from the left in 2019 is Fred's Place, which was once the Jackson Market.
Description: As of 2019, the Tom Cat market no longer occupies the second building on the left. The fourth building from the left in 2019 is Fred's Place, which was once the Jackson Market.
Identities of the four most visible houses in the photograph. Left to Right: William G. “Bill Gill” Norwood (1833-1899) house at 719 Tremont Road, Map 5 – Lot 93, West Tremont. Note – the property is shown on the Salem Town map as Lot #21. William “Billy” H. Webster (1873-1943) house at 16 Horseshoe Road, Map 5 – Lot 91, West Tremont. Capt. Nathan Adam Reed (1823-) house at 23 Horseshoe Road, Map 6 – Lot 1, West Tremont. Henry Thomas Webster (1843-1914) house at 26 Webster Lane, Map 5 – Lot 94, West Tremont – burned in the 1940s.
Description: Identities of the four most visible houses in the photograph. Left to Right: William G. “Bill Gill” Norwood (1833-1899) house at 719 Tremont Road, Map 5 – Lot 93, West Tremont. Note – the property is shown on the Salem Town map as Lot #21. William “Billy” H. Webster (1873-1943) house at 16 Horseshoe Road, Map 5 – Lot 91, West Tremont. Capt. Nathan Adam Reed (1823-) house at 23 Horseshoe Road, Map 6 – Lot 1, West Tremont. Henry Thomas Webster (1843-1914) house at 26 Webster Lane, Map 5 – Lot 94, West Tremont – burned in the 1940s. [show more]