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1000The "Pemetic" school yearbooks 1921 - 1968
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  • Organizations, School Institution
  • Southwest Harbor
The items for yearbooks 1937 - 1959 have photos attached to them. These are the original images, taken by Willis Ballard, used in those yearbooks.
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The items for yearbooks 1937 - 1959 have photos attached to them. These are the original images, taken by Willis Ballard, used in those yearbooks.
3006Restoration of The Cedars
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  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 7 Wesley Ave
This document describes items that were found in The Cedars when it was renovated in 2010.
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This document describes items that were found in The Cedars when it was renovated in 2010.
3046Southwest Boat Corporation
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  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 172 Clark Point Road
3449Fred Mayo's Carpenter Shop - 1st Location
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  • Businesses, Carpentry Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 45 Clark Point Road
Fred S. Mayo’s first carpenter shop was at 45 Clark Point Road. His 2nd carpenter shop was on 28 Village Green Way.
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Fred S. Mayo’s first carpenter shop was at 45 Clark Point Road. His 2nd carpenter shop was on 28 Village Green Way.
3450C.E. Clement’s Boat Shop
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  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 168 Clark Point Road
345145 Clark Point Road
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  • Places, Address
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 45 Clark Point Road
Businesses that have occupied this location: - Fred Mayo’s Carpenter Shop – 1st Location - C.E. Clement Boat Builders
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Businesses that have occupied this location: - Fred Mayo’s Carpenter Shop – 1st Location - C.E. Clement Boat Builders
3452Clement - Chester Eben Clement (1881-1937)
  • Reference
  • People
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 17 Forest Avenue
3467Beal's Fish Wharf
Fred Fernald Lobster Business
B.R. Simmons Lobster Business
H.R. Beal & Sons
  • Reference
  • 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
3472Beal's Bowling Alley at Southwest Harbor
Beal's Bowling Spa - 1951
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Bowling Alley Business
  • 1951
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 165 Clark Point Road
Original Owner: Beal - Harvard Riley Beal (1897-1967) Harvard was a successful entrepreneur. His bowling alley, or "spa" was the second bowling alley to be located on Clark Point, replacing a much earlier version owned by the Clark family.
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Original Owner: Beal - Harvard Riley Beal (1897-1967) Harvard was a successful entrepreneur. His bowling alley, or "spa" was the second bowling alley to be located on Clark Point, replacing a much earlier version owned by the Clark family.
3473Chester Eben Clement House
  • Reference
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 17 Forest Avenue
3487Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Organizations, Civic, Public Library
  • Structures, Civic, Library
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 338 Main Street
Nell Thornton famously said, in her book, The Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor, “The Southwest Harbor Public Library had its beginning [as the Tremont Public Library] in 1884 when Mrs. Annie Sawyer Downs gathered a number of discarded books from the hotels, mostly paper covered volumes, and placed them on a shelf in one corner of Dr. R. J. Lemont's drug store…” The library was, as were many small libraries on the coast of Maine, started by “people from away,” in other words, summer people. This small library, however, was quickly adopted by native Southwest Harborians, and has grown, in the almost one and a half centuries since its founding, to be one of Maine’s very few five-star libraries, according to the Library Journal Index of Public Library Service. Thornton, Nellie C., Traditions and records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine (Merrill & Webber Company, 1938, The Southwest Harbor Public Library, 1988)
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Nell Thornton famously said, in her book, The Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor, “The Southwest Harbor Public Library had its beginning [as the Tremont Public Library] in 1884 when Mrs. Annie Sawyer Downs gathered a number of discarded books from the hotels, mostly paper covered volumes, and placed them on a shelf in one corner of Dr. R. J. Lemont's drug store…” The library was, as were many small libraries on the coast of Maine, started by “people from away,” in other words, summer people. This small library, however, was quickly adopted by native Southwest Harborians, and has grown, in the almost one and a half centuries since its founding, to be one of Maine’s very few five-star libraries, according to the Library Journal Index of Public Library Service. Thornton, Nellie C., Traditions and records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine (Merrill & Webber Company, 1938, The Southwest Harbor Public Library, 1988) [show more]
3513Long Pond
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  • Places, Lake
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Long Pond
Long Pond is the largest body of fresh water on Mount Desert Island. It is nearly 4 miles long and reaches over 100 feet deep. The pond is a public water supply.
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Long Pond is the largest body of fresh water on Mount Desert Island. It is nearly 4 miles long and reaches over 100 feet deep. The pond is a public water supply.
3514Bonaventure - Dragger
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  • Vessels, Commercial Fishing Vessel, Net Fishing Vessel, Dragger
  • Southwest Harbor
Bonaventure was a 90’ dragger designed by Cyrus Hamlin and built for the Novello family of Gloucester by Southwest Boat Corporation in Southwest Harbor. She was the first big dragger built there. See: Prybot, Peter K.. White-Tipped Orange Masts: Gloucester’s Fishing Draggers, 1970-1972, A Time of Change (The Curious Traveller Press, Gloucester, 1998), p. 63.
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Bonaventure was a 90’ dragger designed by Cyrus Hamlin and built for the Novello family of Gloucester by Southwest Boat Corporation in Southwest Harbor. She was the first big dragger built there. See: Prybot, Peter K.. White-Tipped Orange Masts: Gloucester’s Fishing Draggers, 1970-1972, A Time of Change (The Curious Traveller Press, Gloucester, 1998), p. 63.
3523Methodist Church - Southwest Harbor
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  • Organizations, Religious
  • Structures, Ceremonial, Church
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 20 Wesley Avenue
3524Gilley - Irene R. (Gilley) Dunbar (1911-1940)
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  • People
  • Southwest Harbor
Irene R. Gilley (1911-1940) was a great-great-great-granddaughter of William Gilley (1746-1839).According to historian Ralph Warren Stanley, Irene’s funeral at the Methodist Church on Wesley Avenue in Southwest Harbor was well attended. The church, built in 1888, apparently needed repair. The floor dropped 6” during service. That day may have been the last day the church was used. – 05/28/2014
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Irene R. Gilley (1911-1940) was a great-great-great-granddaughter of William Gilley (1746-1839).According to historian Ralph Warren Stanley, Irene’s funeral at the Methodist Church on Wesley Avenue in Southwest Harbor was well attended. The church, built in 1888, apparently needed repair. The floor dropped 6” during service. That day may have been the last day the church was used. – 05/28/2014
3525Dunbar - Linwood N. Dunbar (1904-1942)
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  • People
  • Southwest Harbor
3532TopGallant
Anne Brimley Gould Cottage
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  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 11 Waterview Lane
TopGallant
Anne Brimley Gould Cottage
3562Carroll - Nellie Rebecca (Carroll) Thornton (1871-1958)
  • Reference
  • People
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 23 High Road
Nellie is remembered with love and gratitude by generations of Southwest Harbor and Mount Desert Island residents, genealogists and historians from here and "from away" for her 1938 book, popularly known as, "Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor," a complete and detailed record of the history of the people and places in the town of her birth. Besides writing the definitive history of Southwest Harbor and its inhabitants she was wrote the social notes for the town that appeared in the Bar Harbor Times for many years and was an active library volunteer. She was also an enthusiastic photographer who documented the activities of her large family. She made photograph albums for many family members, many of whom have shared her photographs with the Southwest Harbor Public Library. Archivists credit all of the photographs in her albums to her as she took or planned most of them. Those not taken by her were photographed by unnamed family members.
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Nellie is remembered with love and gratitude by generations of Southwest Harbor and Mount Desert Island residents, genealogists and historians from here and "from away" for her 1938 book, popularly known as, "Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor," a complete and detailed record of the history of the people and places in the town of her birth. Besides writing the definitive history of Southwest Harbor and its inhabitants she was wrote the social notes for the town that appeared in the Bar Harbor Times for many years and was an active library volunteer. She was also an enthusiastic photographer who documented the activities of her large family. She made photograph albums for many family members, many of whom have shared her photographs with the Southwest Harbor Public Library. Archivists credit all of the photographs in her albums to her as she took or planned most of them. Those not taken by her were photographed by unnamed family members. [show more]
3582Whitney Electrical Store
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 40 Clark Point Road
3583E.A. Lawler Paint Company
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  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 40 Clark Point Road
Lawler purchased the building in 1923. The other half of the building was occupied by the Robinson Brother's Automobile Accessories salesroom
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Lawler purchased the building in 1923. The other half of the building was occupied by the Robinson Brother's Automobile Accessories salesroom
3584Sylvester W. Dorr Carpenter Shop
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Carpentry Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 40 Clark Point Road
3590Bryon Heman Mayo House
Henry Rose Hinckley II House
  • Reference
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 10 Robinson Lane
The building fronted on Main Street and would probably have had a Main Street address at the time. The property is now [2017] the Western Way Condominium complex.
Bryon Heman Mayo House
Henry Rose Hinckley II House
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The building fronted on Main Street and would probably have had a Main Street address at the time. The property is now [2017] the Western Way Condominium complex.
3592Freeman's Wharf
Farnsworth Fish Factory
  • Reference
  • 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
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]
3602R.M. Norwood Company
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  • Businesses, Building Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Clark Point Road
The R.M. Norwood Company did the original construction of the Wendell Gilley Museum.
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The R.M. Norwood Company did the original construction of the Wendell Gilley Museum.