Description: Shows the old Eastern Yacht Club Pier, later the Bar Harbor Reading Room Pier. Also shows the Shore Club, later the Mount Desert Reading Room.
"Lunt’s Harbor, Frenchboro, Long Island, c1900, looking north. Harbor Island, one of many Harbor Islands on the Maine coast, lies at the mouth of the harbor. Crow Island is beyond it on the right and to the left is the easternmost Sister Island. Long Island was settled in the 1820's. The name “Frenchboro” was given in honor of Bass Harbor lawyer, E. Webster French, who assisted the inhabitants in obtaining a post office."- MH - Mt. Desert Islander - 2007.
Description: "Lunt’s Harbor, Frenchboro, Long Island, c1900, looking north. Harbor Island, one of many Harbor Islands on the Maine coast, lies at the mouth of the harbor. Crow Island is beyond it on the right and to the left is the easternmost Sister Island. Long Island was settled in the 1820's. The name “Frenchboro” was given in honor of Bass Harbor lawyer, E. Webster French, who assisted the inhabitants in obtaining a post office."- MH - Mt. Desert Islander - 2007. [show more]