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Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date Place Address Description
13175Manset Marine Supply Company
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 172 Clark Point Road
15864Jimmy’s Lunch Room, Lobster Pound and Gas Station
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  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 173 Clark Point Road
The business started when Jimmy moved an old building he had been using to house chickens from his property on Clark Point Road, to the end of Clark Point and began to sell lobsters from it. He then expanded it in to a lunch room and installed gas pumps out front.
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The business started when Jimmy moved an old building he had been using to house chickens from his property on Clark Point Road, to the end of Clark Point and began to sell lobsters from it. He then expanded it in to a lunch room and installed gas pumps out front.
12884J.N. Mills & Co. Cash Store
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  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 172 Clark Point Road
In 1914 Jesse Newell Mills and his sister, Cora Enola Mills opened a hardware and grocery store, the J.N. Mills Cash Store, on Clark Point in the second old Clark & Parker store at 172 Clark Point Road, Southwest Harbor, Maine across the road from what would later be the site of the J.N. Mills Co., Inc. fuel oil business.
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In 1914 Jesse Newell Mills and his sister, Cora Enola Mills opened a hardware and grocery store, the J.N. Mills Cash Store, on Clark Point in the second old Clark & Parker store at 172 Clark Point Road, Southwest Harbor, Maine across the road from what would later be the site of the J.N. Mills Co., Inc. fuel oil business.
14140Hot Flash Anny
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Business Shop
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 4 Clark Point Road
3592Freeman's Wharf
Farnsworth Fish Factory
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  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf
  • Southwest Harbor
Built by John T.R. Freeman around 1885. The wharf was occupied by several canning businesses at various times
Freeman's Wharf
Farnsworth Fish Factory
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Built by John T.R. Freeman around 1885. The wharf was occupied by several canning businesses at various times
3467Beal's Fish Wharf
Fred Fernald Lobster Business
B.R. Simmons Lobster Business
H.R. Beal & Sons
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  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 182 Clark Point Road
Beal's Fish Wharf
Fred Fernald Lobster Business
B.R. Simmons Lobster Business
H.R. Beal & Sons
13288Clark and Parker Original Store
Pier One - Dock End
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 164 Clark Point Road
13287Clark and Parker 2nd Store
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 172 Clark Point Road
15863Augustus Clark’s Store, Barn & Bowling Alley
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 10 Town Wharf Way
13653A.E. Parker Wharf and Boat Shop
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 168 Clark Point Road
13266Rich & Grindle Boatbuilders
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 50 Clark Point Road
Rich & Grindle Boatbuilders was founded in December 1946 when Roger Clifton Rich (1913-1996) and Ralph Merrill Grindle (1915-2005) formed a partnership to build boats in Roger's barn at Tracy Cove on Clark Point Road. The barn was next to Roger's house at 50 Clark Point Road.
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Rich & Grindle Boatbuilders was founded in December 1946 when Roger Clifton Rich (1913-1996) and Ralph Merrill Grindle (1915-2005) formed a partnership to build boats in Roger's barn at Tracy Cove on Clark Point Road. The barn was next to Roger's house at 50 Clark Point Road.
12984Andy's Little Store
Andy's Restaurant
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 432 Main Street
Andy's Little Store
Andy's Restaurant
3601The Gilley Plumbing Company
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Service Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 21 Clark Point Road
The Gilley and Salisbury plumbing shop was at first built by George H. Gilley on his lot near his home on the Main Road and was used there as a plumber's shop for some years. Then it was moved to its present situation and in 1929 it was moved to the rear of the lot and the show rooms and upstairs living apartment were built. Mr. Gilley's grandson, Wendell H. Gilley, now carried on the business. Gilley Plumbing was a part of the Gilley family for at least three generations. Maud Holmes Gilley ran the business with her son Wendell after the death of her husband, Frank Gilley, in 1920.
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The Gilley and Salisbury plumbing shop was at first built by George H. Gilley on his lot near his home on the Main Road and was used there as a plumber's shop for some years. Then it was moved to its present situation and in 1929 it was moved to the rear of the lot and the show rooms and upstairs living apartment were built. Mr. Gilley's grandson, Wendell H. Gilley, now carried on the business. Gilley Plumbing was a part of the Gilley family for at least three generations. Maud Holmes Gilley ran the business with her son Wendell after the death of her husband, Frank Gilley, in 1920. [show more]
13261Lawlor Ice Business
Benjamin M. Robinson Ice Pond
Henry E. Tracy Ice Pond
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 17 Chris' Lane
In the 21st Century we may think of ice as something that comes out of the doors of our refrigerator or a nice skating surface in an indoor rink, but, in the 18th and early 19th centuries the ice business produced a very necessary product and employed many people. See: “Ice Harvesting Sampler” DVD, produced by Northeast Historic Film, Black & White, NTSC, 33 minutes - 1994. This “compilation of newsreel and amateur footage of ice harvesting operations in Maine includes ice-house interiors with massive ice blocks being maneuvered at high speed, and horse teams delivering ice to brownstones in Boston.” “America’s Icemen: An Illustrative History of the United States Natural Ice Industry 1665-1925” by Joseph C. Jones Jr., published by Jobeco Books, 1984. “The American Ice Harvests: A Historical Study in Technology, 1800-1918” by Richard O. Cummings, published by the University of Calfornia Press, 1949.
Lawlor Ice Business
Benjamin M. Robinson Ice Pond
Henry E. Tracy Ice Pond
Description:
In the 21st Century we may think of ice as something that comes out of the doors of our refrigerator or a nice skating surface in an indoor rink, but, in the 18th and early 19th centuries the ice business produced a very necessary product and employed many people. See: “Ice Harvesting Sampler” DVD, produced by Northeast Historic Film, Black & White, NTSC, 33 minutes - 1994. This “compilation of newsreel and amateur footage of ice harvesting operations in Maine includes ice-house interiors with massive ice blocks being maneuvered at high speed, and horse teams delivering ice to brownstones in Boston.” “America’s Icemen: An Illustrative History of the United States Natural Ice Industry 1665-1925” by Joseph C. Jones Jr., published by Jobeco Books, 1984. “The American Ice Harvests: A Historical Study in Technology, 1800-1918” by Richard O. Cummings, published by the University of Calfornia Press, 1949. [show more]
3582Whitney Electrical Store
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 40 Clark Point Road
14971Village Wash Tub
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Laundromat Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 297 Main Street
14954Benson's Laundromat
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Laundromat Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 297 Main Street
The business was started in 1954. Known as "Benson's Laundromat" in 1960, the washing machines were Westinghouse Commercial machines.
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The business was started in 1954. Known as "Benson's Laundromat" in 1960, the washing machines were Westinghouse Commercial machines.
14956Dave's Dairy Delight
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 297 Main Street
14715A.L. Gilley Barber Shop
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Service Business
  • Southwest Harbor
“Returning now to the village comer and going toward the wharf at Clark Point—the building owned and occupied by the Jackson Market was originally A. L. [Arthur A.] Gilley's barber shop ; a small building which forms but a fraction of the present structure. It has been owned by several who have made changes and additions and greatly increased its size.” - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 156 - 1938 Arthur Alonzo Gilley inherited this barber shop property in 1922 from his mother, Julia I. (Moore) Gilley Marson. Arthur was practicing as a barber in Bath, Maine in 1920 and in 1930.
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“Returning now to the village comer and going toward the wharf at Clark Point—the building owned and occupied by the Jackson Market was originally A. L. [Arthur A.] Gilley's barber shop ; a small building which forms but a fraction of the present structure. It has been owned by several who have made changes and additions and greatly increased its size.” - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 156 - 1938 Arthur Alonzo Gilley inherited this barber shop property in 1922 from his mother, Julia I. (Moore) Gilley Marson. Arthur was practicing as a barber in Bath, Maine in 1920 and in 1930. [show more]
14544Hannah Bunker Gilley’s Millinery and Fancy Goods
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Business Shop
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 306 Main Street
14397D. L. Mayo's Cash Store
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Southwest Harbor
14371Bryant Bradley Studio, Southwest Harbor
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Photography Business
  • Southwest Harbor
13916Carroll Drug Store
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 3 Village Green Way
Built on the site of the Carroll house on Main Street after the 1922 fire destroyed the house.
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Built on the site of the Carroll house on Main Street after the 1922 fire destroyed the house.
13671Arthur L. Somes Store
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 357 Main Street
13672Seth W. Norwood Law Office
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  • Businesses, Service Business
  • Southwest Harbor
“Seth W. Norwood opened a law office in Southwest Harbor in 1906 where he practiced for a few years and then moved to Portland.” - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 107 - 1938. He was still practicing in Southwest Harbor in 1912.
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“Seth W. Norwood opened a law office in Southwest Harbor in 1906 where he practiced for a few years and then moved to Portland.” - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 107 - 1938. He was still practicing in Southwest Harbor in 1912.