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Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date Place Address Description
3602R.M. Norwood Company
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Building Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Clark Point Road
The R.M. Norwood Company did the original construction of the Wendell Gilley Museum.
R.M. Norwood Company
Item:
  • 3602   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Building Business
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • Clark Point Road
Description:
The R.M. Norwood Company did the original construction of the Wendell Gilley Museum.
3632C.M. Rich Boat Shop
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor
The boatshop of Clifton Melbourne Rich. C.M. Rich built the Dory BLB for the Kellams. His sons Robert (Bobby) and Roger also became boat builders, starting their own shops, the Bass Harbor Boat Shop and Rich and Grindle Boatbuilders, respectively.
C.M. Rich Boat Shop
Item:
  • 3632   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
Place:
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor
State:
  • ME
Description:
The boatshop of Clifton Melbourne Rich. C.M. Rich built the Dory BLB for the Kellams. His sons Robert (Bobby) and Roger also became boat builders, starting their own shops, the Bass Harbor Boat Shop and Rich and Grindle Boatbuilders, respectively.
3637Ronald Rich Boat Shop
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Herrick Road
Ronald Dean Rich's boat shop. Ronald was the son of Clifton Melbourne Rich and the brother of Robert "Bobby" Rich and Roger Clifton Rich, all other skilled boat builders.
Ronald Rich Boat Shop
Item:
  • 3637   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • Herrick Road
Description:
Ronald Dean Rich's boat shop. Ronald was the son of Clifton Melbourne Rich and the brother of Robert "Bobby" Rich and Roger Clifton Rich, all other skilled boat builders.
3638Capitol Corner Filling Station
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Service Business
  • Tremont, Bernard
  • 280 Tremont Road
The filling station was owned by Roger Dean Rich. He built the filling station in 1937 in front of his parents' house.
Capitol Corner Filling Station
Item:
  • 3638   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Service Business
Place:
  • Tremont, Bernard
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 280 Tremont Road
Description:
The filling station was owned by Roger Dean Rich. He built the filling station in 1937 in front of his parents' house.
3653Mrs. Lawton's Tea Room and Candy Shop
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Store Business
Mrs. Lawton's Tea Room and Gift Shop offered souvenirs, post cards, home made ice cream and "all kinds of cut flowers in season."
Mrs. Lawton's Tea Room and Candy Shop
Item:
  • 3653   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Store Business
Description:
Mrs. Lawton's Tea Room and Gift Shop offered souvenirs, post cards, home made ice cream and "all kinds of cut flowers in season."
3655West Tremont Brick Company
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Building Business
  • Tremont
West Tremont Brick Company
Item:
  • 3655   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Building Business
Place:
  • Tremont
State:
  • ME
3662McEachern & Hutchins Hardware Store
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 345 Main St.
Started as a contracting business in 1949, Archie McEachern bought out his uncle Jasper Hutchins in 1957 and transitioned the business to a lumber and hardware supply. The store expanded to multiple locations and was taken over by Archie's son, Les.
McEachern & Hutchins Hardware Store
Item:
  • 3662   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Store Business
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 345 Main St.
Description:
Started as a contracting business in 1949, Archie McEachern bought out his uncle Jasper Hutchins in 1957 and transitioned the business to a lumber and hardware supply. The store expanded to multiple locations and was taken over by Archie's son, Les.
3664Nelson Herrick Farm
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Farming
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor
In 1936, Nelson Herrick bought 140 acres of land in Tremont and 18 cows and following in his father's footsteps, began dairy farming. When the children got old enough they helped run the milk route and do other chores
Nelson Herrick Farm
Item:
  • 3664   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Farming
Place:
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor
State:
  • ME
Description:
In 1936, Nelson Herrick bought 140 acres of land in Tremont and 18 cows and following in his father's footsteps, began dairy farming. When the children got old enough they helped run the milk route and do other chores
3686J.C. Ralph Studio and Store
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Main Street
John C. Ralph’s Studio has a complicated history. The J.C. Ralph Studio and Store, on Main Street in Southwest Harbor, proclaimed itself, "Eyeglasses and Spectacles - Jeweler and Optician." "Jeweler John C. Ralph moved from Bar Harbor to Southwest Harbor in 1888 to open a jewelry window in J.T.R. Freeman's store. Over the course of his 22-year tenure in Southwest Harbor, this ambitious man established many businesses...As described in the newspaper, Ralph never walked when he could run." -“Mount Desert Island - Somesville, Southwest Harbor, and Northeast Harbor” by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. and Lydia B. Vandenbergh - Images of America Series, p. 57 – 2001. “John D. Lurvey purchased the lot and built thereon a small building which he used as a storehouse for coffins which he made, as he was a skilled carpenter and cabinet maker. Later this building was used as a public library and was twice moved; once to the northern end of the lot and again to the place now occupied by the Lawton Variety store, where it was used as a drug store, a jeweler’s store, a barber shop and the post office. John C. Ralph kept the post office there and enlarged the building.” - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 148 – 1938.
J.C. Ralph Studio and Store
Item:
  • 3686   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Store Business
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • Main Street
Description:
John C. Ralph’s Studio has a complicated history. The J.C. Ralph Studio and Store, on Main Street in Southwest Harbor, proclaimed itself, "Eyeglasses and Spectacles - Jeweler and Optician." "Jeweler John C. Ralph moved from Bar Harbor to Southwest Harbor in 1888 to open a jewelry window in J.T.R. Freeman's store. Over the course of his 22-year tenure in Southwest Harbor, this ambitious man established many businesses...As described in the newspaper, Ralph never walked when he could run." -“Mount Desert Island - Somesville, Southwest Harbor, and Northeast Harbor” by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. and Lydia B. Vandenbergh - Images of America Series, p. 57 – 2001. “John D. Lurvey purchased the lot and built thereon a small building which he used as a storehouse for coffins which he made, as he was a skilled carpenter and cabinet maker. Later this building was used as a public library and was twice moved; once to the northern end of the lot and again to the place now occupied by the Lawton Variety store, where it was used as a drug store, a jeweler’s store, a barber shop and the post office. John C. Ralph kept the post office there and enlarged the building.” - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 148 – 1938. [show more]
3688Ralph Stanley Inc.
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 102-104 Clark Point Road
After earning an associate's degree from a college in northern Maine, Stanley returned to Southwest Harbor. Not sure what occupation he wanted to pursue, he decided to try to build a boat. So he earned the money he needed to buy wood and other construction materials and, during the winter of 1951-1952, he built a 28-foot lobster boat. The boat turned out well and a local person bought it. This led to orders for other boats. "I've been building (boats) ever since," he said. Stanley learned how to build boats not by apprenticing himself to another boatbuilder but mainly by keenly observing and using boats and by observing the activities of several professional boatbuilders who specialized in the Mt. Desert Island version of the Maine lobster boat.
Ralph Stanley Inc.
Item:
  • 3688   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 102-104 Clark Point Road
Description:
After earning an associate's degree from a college in northern Maine, Stanley returned to Southwest Harbor. Not sure what occupation he wanted to pursue, he decided to try to build a boat. So he earned the money he needed to buy wood and other construction materials and, during the winter of 1951-1952, he built a 28-foot lobster boat. The boat turned out well and a local person bought it. This led to orders for other boats. "I've been building (boats) ever since," he said. Stanley learned how to build boats not by apprenticing himself to another boatbuilder but mainly by keenly observing and using boats and by observing the activities of several professional boatbuilders who specialized in the Mt. Desert Island version of the Maine lobster boat. [show more]
3718William Underwood Factory at McKinley
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley
  • 5 Granville Road
A sardine cannery in McKinely, now Bass Harbor.
William Underwood Factory at McKinley
Item:
  • 3718   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
Place:
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 5 Granville Road
Description:
A sardine cannery in McKinely, now Bass Harbor.
12872Bath Iron Works
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Bath ME
  • 7000 Washington Street
Bath Iron Works
Item:
  • 12872   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
Place:
  • Bath ME
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 7000 Washington Street
12879Gordon & White Garage
Howard E. Robinson Garage
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Automotive Repair Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 322-326-330 Main Street
Howard Ernest Robinson (1896-1972) purchased site for the garage from Isaac F. Stanley in 1924. Howard built a garage there in 1928. He sold the garage and property to Earl Gordon (1893-1964) and Leslie Frank White (1891-1967) in 1929. They established the Gordon & White Garage. The Gordon & White garage, on Main Street in Southwest Harbor, was an Esso station and sold Fords, Mercurys and Kiekhaefer Mercury outboard motors. The gas pumps were removed in 1985 by the new owner, Tom Landers, who renamed the business Landers Ford.
Gordon & White Garage
Howard E. Robinson Garage
Item:
  • 12879   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Automotive Repair Business
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 322-326-330 Main Street
Description:
Howard Ernest Robinson (1896-1972) purchased site for the garage from Isaac F. Stanley in 1924. Howard built a garage there in 1928. He sold the garage and property to Earl Gordon (1893-1964) and Leslie Frank White (1891-1967) in 1929. They established the Gordon & White Garage. The Gordon & White garage, on Main Street in Southwest Harbor, was an Esso station and sold Fords, Mercurys and Kiekhaefer Mercury outboard motors. The gas pumps were removed in 1985 by the new owner, Tom Landers, who renamed the business Landers Ford. [show more]
12884J.N. Mills & Co. Cash Store
  • Reference
  • 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.
J.N. Mills & Co. Cash Store
Item:
  • 12884   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Store Business
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 172 Clark Point Road
Description:
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.
12886L & G Stanley
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Service Business
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
L & G Stanley
Item:
  • 12886   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Service Business
Place:
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
State:
  • ME
12889Swans Island / McKinley Bass Harbor Ferry
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Service Business
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor
Swans Island / McKinley Bass Harbor Ferry
Item:
  • 12889   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Service Business
Place:
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor
State:
  • ME
12896Power & Robinson Machine and Repair Shop
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Business Shop
Power & Robinson Machine and Repair Shop
Item:
  • 12896   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Business Shop
12900H.G. Reed Store
McMullin Store
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Businesses, Theater Business
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor
  • Harbor Avenue (Route 102A) - Map 12 - Lot 45
"H.G. Reed, Inc., Maine's most diversified General Store. Since 1907 under two generations of the same family management. A store keeping pace with modern living in this changing world. Everything from the usual general store items to a Radar for your boat. They service everything they sell."
H.G. Reed Store
McMullin Store
Item:
  • 12900   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Businesses, Theater Business
Place:
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • Harbor Avenue (Route 102A) - Map 12 - Lot 45
Description:
"H.G. Reed, Inc., Maine's most diversified General Store. Since 1907 under two generations of the same family management. A store keeping pace with modern living in this changing world. Everything from the usual general store items to a Radar for your boat. They service everything they sell."
12920Trundy's Market
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 4 Clark Point Road
Trundy's Market
Item:
  • 12920   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Store Business
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 4 Clark Point Road
12922Park Theater, Southwest Harbor
Mayo Picture Theater
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Theater Business
  • Structures, Civic, Performing Arts, Theater
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 345 Main Street
Park Theater, Southwest Harbor
Mayo Picture Theater
Item:
  • 12922   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Theater Business
  • Structures, Civic, Performing Arts, Theater
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 345 Main Street
Tags:
theater
12923Mert's Gift Shop, Southwest Harbor
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Southwest Harbor
Mert's Gift Shop, Southwest Harbor
Item:
  • 12923   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Store Business
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
12949Lawton Block
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Structures, Other Structures
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 344 Main Street
Lawton Block
Item:
  • 12949   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Structures, Other Structures
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 344 Main Street
12952Jackson Market
T.W. Jackson & Son
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 10 Clark Point Road
The store, on Clark Point Road, was T.W. Jackson & Son, an IGA store. “R.B. Jackson [Richard Benson Jackson (1893-1959)] is having a building erected on his lot lately purchased from P.L. Sargent. A filling station and other conveniences will be established there, and the extensive grounds opened as a parking place. This will be a great convenience to the customers of the Jackson market.” – The Ellsworth American, Wednesday, April 15, 1936. "In the 1930s and 40s, Jackson's Market of Southwest Harbor sent a boat and operated a weekly market on the old steamboat wharf [on Little Cranberry Island] during the summer. In addition to meat and vegetables, a youthful stamp collector could find a small envelope of stamps inside each package of Brookfield butter." - “A History of Little Cranberry Island, Maine” by Hugh L. Dwelley, published by Isleford Historical Society, 1990, p. 114. In 2017, Christina's Gallery & Past Treasures, was located in the building once occupied by the Jackson Market.
Jackson Market
T.W. Jackson & Son
Item:
  • 12952   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Store Business
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 10 Clark Point Road
Description:
The store, on Clark Point Road, was T.W. Jackson & Son, an IGA store. “R.B. Jackson [Richard Benson Jackson (1893-1959)] is having a building erected on his lot lately purchased from P.L. Sargent. A filling station and other conveniences will be established there, and the extensive grounds opened as a parking place. This will be a great convenience to the customers of the Jackson market.” – The Ellsworth American, Wednesday, April 15, 1936. "In the 1930s and 40s, Jackson's Market of Southwest Harbor sent a boat and operated a weekly market on the old steamboat wharf [on Little Cranberry Island] during the summer. In addition to meat and vegetables, a youthful stamp collector could find a small envelope of stamps inside each package of Brookfield butter." - “A History of Little Cranberry Island, Maine” by Hugh L. Dwelley, published by Isleford Historical Society, 1990, p. 114. In 2017, Christina's Gallery & Past Treasures, was located in the building once occupied by the Jackson Market. [show more]
12953Freeman Store
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 370 Main Street
Freeman Store
Item:
  • 12953   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Store Business
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 370 Main Street
12954Cuz' Cafe
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 14 Clark Point Road
The building had previously been Ham Stanley's Cafe, but when the building burned it as Cuz' Cafe. On Wednesday, April 6, 1955 the Ellsworth American mentioned that the building was being rebuilt by R.M. Norwood.
Cuz' Cafe
Item:
  • 12954   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
Place:
  • Southwest Harbor
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • 14 Clark Point Road
Description:
The building had previously been Ham Stanley's Cafe, but when the building burned it as Cuz' Cafe. On Wednesday, April 6, 1955 the Ellsworth American mentioned that the building was being rebuilt by R.M. Norwood.