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13912	Vinalhaven II - Ferry	Reference	Businesses, Ferry Service Vessels, Merchant Vessel, Ferry					For over a year [after the start of WWII] the Penobscot Bay islands had no regular ferry service. Local fishermen and boat owners filled in as best they could. Then, at a special town meeting in August 1942, Vinalhaven voted to raise $55,000 to build a powerboat. The result was a sixty-five-foot, diesel-powered “motorship” named “Vinalhaven II,” built in Southwest Harbor, Maine. The boat went into service in July 1943, and Charles Philbrook was her captain…” – “Stories from the Maine Coast: Skppers, Ships and Storms” by Harry Gratwick, The History Press, 2012, p. 54-55. "The “Vinalhaven II”, 57 gross tons owned by the Vinalhaven Port District, Inc. of Rockland was built [by Southwest Boat Corporation] in 1943 to serve the island of Vinalhaven with passenger and freight service to Rockland." - "Boatbuilding During World War II: MDI, Ellsworth, Stonington and Bluehill" by Ralph W. Stanley, p. 10 - 1997. “Vinalhaven II” was designed by Cyrus “Cy” Hamlin. “Clarence” Bennett, a fisherman, was one of the group that raised the money to build “Vinalhaven II.” – Ralph W. Stanley 2011.	Vinalhaven II - Ferry Item: 13912 Type: Reference Subject: Businesses, Ferry Service Vessels, Merchant Vessel, Ferry Description: For over a year [after the start of WWII] the Penobscot Bay islands had no regular ferry service. Local fishermen and boat owners filled in as best they could. Then, at a special town meeting in August 1942, Vinalhaven voted to raise $55,000 to build a powerboat. The result was a sixty-five-foot, diesel-powered “motorship” named “Vinalhaven II,” built in Southwest Harbor, Maine. The boat went into service in July 1943, and Charles Philbrook was her captain…” – “Stories from the Maine Coast: Skppers, Ships and Storms” by Harry Gratwick, The History Press, 2012, p. 54-55. "The “Vinalhaven II”, 57 gross tons owned by the Vinalhaven Port District, Inc. of Rockland was built [by Southwest Boat Corporation] in 1943 to serve the island of Vinalhaven with passenger and freight service to Rockland." - "Boatbuilding During World War II: MDI, Ellsworth, Stonington and Bluehill" by Ralph W. Stanley, p. 10 - 1997. “Vinalhaven II” was designed by Cyrus “Cy” Hamlin. “Clarence” Bennett, a fisherman, was one of the group that raised the money to build “Vinalhaven II.” – Ralph W. Stanley 2011. [show more]
11461	Launching Mary Rose	Image, Photograph	Businesses, Boatbuilding Business Vessels, Boat						Launching Mary Rose Item: 11461 Accession #: 1053 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Businesses, Boatbuilding Business Vessels, Boat State: ME Source: Collection of the Newman Family
12333	Unknown Boat Under Construction at Southwest Boat Corporation	Image, Photograph	Businesses, Boatbuilding Business Vessels, Boat						Unknown Boat Under Construction at Southwest Boat Corporation Item: 12333 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Businesses, Boatbuilding Business Vessels, Boat State: ME
13083	Eastern Steamship Company and Wharf at Belfast	Reference	Businesses, Transportation Business Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf, Steamboat Wharf			Belfast ME			Eastern Steamship Company and Wharf at Belfast Item: 13083 Type: Reference Subject: Businesses, Transportation Business Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf, Steamboat Wharf Place: Belfast ME State: ME
3592	Freeman'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 Item: 3592 Type: Reference Subject: Businesses, Cannery Business Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf Place: Southwest Harbor State: ME Description: Built by John T.R. Freeman around 1885. The wharf was occupied by several canning businesses at various times
13359	Benjamin M. Robinson Wharf Allen J. Lawler Canning Factory A.J. Lawler Canning Factory	Reference	Businesses, Cannery Business Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf			Southwest Harbor	15 - 17 Lawler Lane		Benjamin M. Robinson Wharf Allen J. Lawler Canning Factory A.J. Lawler Canning Factory Item: 13359 Type: Reference Subject: Businesses, Cannery Business Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf Place: Southwest Harbor State: ME Address: 15 - 17 Lawler Lane
13415	Harding's Wharf	Reference	Businesses, Transportation Business Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf			Tremont, Bernard	30 Steamboat Wharf Road		Harding's Wharf Item: 13415 Type: Reference Subject: Businesses, Transportation Business Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf Place: Tremont, Bernard State: ME Address: 30 Steamboat Wharf Road
13527	James Parker's Wharf	Reference	Businesses, Fishery Business Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf			Southwest Harbor, Manset	127 Shore Road		James Parker's Wharf Item: 13527 Type: Reference Subject: Businesses, Fishery Business Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf Place: Southwest Harbor, Manset State: ME Address: 127 Shore Road
13501	Franklin Ward Machine Shop Dockside Motel XYZ Restaurant	Reference	Businesses, Restaurant Business Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Motel Structures, Other Structures			Southwest Harbor, Manset	48 Shore Road		Franklin Ward Machine Shop Dockside Motel XYZ Restaurant Item: 13501 Type: Reference Subject: Businesses, Restaurant Business Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Motel Structures, Other Structures Place: Southwest Harbor, Manset State: ME Address: 48 Shore Road
15932	Melville Moore House and Store	Reference	Businesses, Business Shop Structures, Dwellings, House			Southwest Harbor, Manset	110 Shore Road		Melville Moore House and Store Item: 15932 Type: Reference Subject: Businesses, Business Shop Structures, Dwellings, House Place: Southwest Harbor, Manset State: ME Address: 110 Shore Road
13416	The Claremont Hotel	Reference	Businesses, Lodging Business Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel			Southwest Harbor	20 Claremont Road	The Claremont Hotel is a historic hotel on Claremont Road in Southwest Harbor, Maine. Built in 1883, the main hotel building is one of the only 19th-century hotels to survive on Mount Desert Island. “In 1883, Capt. Jesse Pease and his wife, Grace Clark Pease, hired Edward Glover to build a four-story hotel. The Claremont Hotel opened in June 1884.” - The Ellsworth American – October 24, 2002. "The Claremont Hotel was built in 1883-4 by Capt. Jesse H. Pease and was opened to guests in the summer of '84. After the death of Capt. Pease in 1900, his wife successfully conducted the hotel for some seasons and then sold it to Dr. J.D. Phillips, who, with his son. Lawrence D. Phillips, now conducts it as a summer hostlery. Some years after acquiring it [circa 1911] Dr. Phillips purchased the Pemetic Hotel or "The Castle" as it was sometimes called, a building which Deacon Clark erected about 1878 as a rooming house in connection with his summer hotel. This stood in the woods across the road and east of the Island Cottage. It was moved to the Claremont lot and made a part of the hotel. Dr. Phillips has greatly enlarged and improved the hotel during his ownership and it has always been a popular place, commanding as it does a splendid view of Somes Sound and the harbor, with the hills in the background. The fiftieth anniversary of the hotel was observed in 1934 with interesting excercises." - Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 168 - 1938. The main building of the Claremont was built in 1883 by Jesse Pease, a retired sea captain, and was one of the first large hotels to be built on Mount Desert Island. It is a 3-1/2 story wood frame structure, finished in clapboards, with a cross-gabled hip roof and a stone foundation. The main (west-facing) facade is seven bays wide, with a simple port-cochere near the south end providing entrance to the building. A single-story porch wraps around the south and east facades (the latter facing Somes Sound). From the eastern facade a broad lawn extends down to the waterfront, where there is a boathouse. The interior has been modernized, but with attention to maintaining original Victorian features. On March 29, 1978 the Claremont Hotel was listed in the National Register of Historic Places - #78000162.	The Claremont Hotel Item: 13416 Type: Reference Subject: Businesses, Lodging Business Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel Place: Southwest Harbor State: ME Address: 20 Claremont Road Description: The Claremont Hotel is a historic hotel on Claremont Road in Southwest Harbor, Maine. Built in 1883, the main hotel building is one of the only 19th-century hotels to survive on Mount Desert Island. “In 1883, Capt. Jesse Pease and his wife, Grace Clark Pease, hired Edward Glover to build a four-story hotel. The Claremont Hotel opened in June 1884.” - The Ellsworth American – October 24, 2002. "The Claremont Hotel was built in 1883-4 by Capt. Jesse H. Pease and was opened to guests in the summer of '84. After the death of Capt. Pease in 1900, his wife successfully conducted the hotel for some seasons and then sold it to Dr. J.D. Phillips, who, with his son. Lawrence D. Phillips, now conducts it as a summer hostlery. Some years after acquiring it [circa 1911] Dr. Phillips purchased the Pemetic Hotel or "The Castle" as it was sometimes called, a building which Deacon Clark erected about 1878 as a rooming house in connection with his summer hotel. This stood in the woods across the road and east of the Island Cottage. It was moved to the Claremont lot and made a part of the hotel. Dr. Phillips has greatly enlarged and improved the hotel during his ownership and it has always been a popular place, commanding as it does a splendid view of Somes Sound and the harbor, with the hills in the background. The fiftieth anniversary of the hotel was observed in 1934 with interesting excercises." - Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 168 - 1938. The main building of the Claremont was built in 1883 by Jesse Pease, a retired sea captain, and was one of the first large hotels to be built on Mount Desert Island. It is a 3-1/2 story wood frame structure, finished in clapboards, with a cross-gabled hip roof and a stone foundation. The main (west-facing) facade is seven bays wide, with a simple port-cochere near the south end providing entrance to the building. A single-story porch wraps around the south and east facades (the latter facing Somes Sound). From the eastern facade a broad lawn extends down to the waterfront, where there is a boathouse. The interior has been modernized, but with attention to maintaining original Victorian features. On March 29, 1978 the Claremont Hotel was listed in the National Register of Historic Places - #78000162. [show more]
13258	Moore's Garage Southwest Harbor Motor Company	Reference	Businesses, Automotive Repair Business Structures, Commercial, Commercial Structures, Automotive Repair			Southwest Harbor	19 Clark Point Road	In 1940 Southwest Harbor Motor Co. was the only AAA filling station in Southwest Harbor. Their phone number was 51-2. The brick building was converted to offices to rent in 1986-1987. The U.S. Post Office opened in the building on June 2, 1987. Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) attended school in the elementary school on the present ellipse (behind the Gilley Plumbing building on the left of this photograph) before it was moved across the street to become a fire station and now [2011] the police station/town office. When the bank was housed at the Southwest Harbor Motor Co. Ralph would take his penny bank there to be unlocked and have the money deposited in his bank account. The lady in the bank would show him the big safe where is money would be kept. – Ralph Warren Stanley 01/17/11 Marion E. Newman (1890-1976), Mrs. Frederick Walter Wescott at the time, owned a yellow Stutz Bearcat that was destroyed in the fire. Marion was known for having invested in Coca Cola stock and holding on to it when others thought it worthless and sold their stock. – Ralph Warren Stanley, 03/31/14	Moore's Garage Southwest Harbor Motor Company Item: 13258 Type: Reference Subject: Businesses, Automotive Repair Business Structures, Commercial, Commercial Structures, Automotive Repair Place: Southwest Harbor State: ME Address: 19 Clark Point Road Description: In 1940 Southwest Harbor Motor Co. was the only AAA filling station in Southwest Harbor. Their phone number was 51-2. The brick building was converted to offices to rent in 1986-1987. The U.S. Post Office opened in the building on June 2, 1987. Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) attended school in the elementary school on the present ellipse (behind the Gilley Plumbing building on the left of this photograph) before it was moved across the street to become a fire station and now [2011] the police station/town office. When the bank was housed at the Southwest Harbor Motor Co. Ralph would take his penny bank there to be unlocked and have the money deposited in his bank account. The lady in the bank would show him the big safe where is money would be kept. – Ralph Warren Stanley 01/17/11 Marion E. Newman (1890-1976), Mrs. Frederick Walter Wescott at the time, owned a yellow Stutz Bearcat that was destroyed in the fire. Marion was known for having invested in Coca Cola stock and holding on to it when others thought it worthless and sold their stock. – Ralph Warren Stanley, 03/31/14 [show more]
15014	Bernard Post Office Hinton's Antique Shop	Reference	Businesses, Business Shop Structures, Civic, Public, Post Office Structures, Commercial, Store			Tremont, Bernard	129 Bernard Road	Postmasters at Bernard were: George W. Billings (1859-?): Postmaster - 11/26/1906 Hiram H. Condon (1871-1957): Postmaster - 10/17/1914 Mrs. Harriet C. Hinton (1904-1984): Acting Postmaster - 10/31/1941 Mrs. Harriet C. Hinton (1904-1984): Postmaster - 03/25/1942 Mrs. Hilda Erclin Sylvia (1912-2006): Officer-In-Charge - 06/20/1974 Mrs. Hilda Erclin Sylvia (1912-2006): Postmaster - 10/26/1974 Alice Ann Tracy - Officer-In-Charge: 05/01/1987 Linda (Sawyer) Musson (1949-): Postmaster -10/10/1987 Harriet Hinton was the postmaster - then her son Paul Hinton, had the antique store in this building.	Bernard Post Office Hinton's Antique Shop Item: 15014 Type: Reference Subject: Businesses, Business Shop Structures, Civic, Public, Post Office Structures, Commercial, Store Place: Tremont, Bernard State: ME Address: 129 Bernard Road Description: Postmasters at Bernard were: George W. Billings (1859-?): Postmaster - 11/26/1906 Hiram H. Condon (1871-1957): Postmaster - 10/17/1914 Mrs. Harriet C. Hinton (1904-1984): Acting Postmaster - 10/31/1941 Mrs. Harriet C. Hinton (1904-1984): Postmaster - 03/25/1942 Mrs. Hilda Erclin Sylvia (1912-2006): Officer-In-Charge - 06/20/1974 Mrs. Hilda Erclin Sylvia (1912-2006): Postmaster - 10/26/1974 Alice Ann Tracy - Officer-In-Charge: 05/01/1987 Linda (Sawyer) Musson (1949-): Postmaster -10/10/1987 Harriet Hinton was the postmaster - then her son Paul Hinton, had the antique store in this building. [show more]
12922	Park 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
12488	The Underwood Sardine Factory, Tremont, Maine	Image, Art, Painting	Businesses, Cannery Business Places, Town	Lyford - Philip Lyford (1887-1950)		Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley			The Underwood Sardine Factory, Tremont, Maine Item: 12488 Type: Image, Art, Painting Subject: Businesses, Cannery Business Places, Town Creator: Lyford - Philip Lyford (1887-1950) Place: Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley State: ME Source: Collection of the Town of Tremont
11059	W.H. Ward Jr. Store - After the Fire	Image, Photograph	Businesses, Store Business Places, Shore			Southwest Harbor, Manset			W.H. Ward Jr. Store - After the Fire Item: 11059 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Businesses, Store Business Places, Shore Place: Southwest Harbor, Manset State: ME Source: The Ward Family Collection
9466	Aerial View of The Henry R. Hinckley Company, Manset, and Southwest Harbor	Image, Photograph	Businesses, Boatbuilding Business Places, Harbor		Augustus D. Phillips & Son, Northeast Harbor	Southwest Harbor, Manset			Aerial View of The Henry R. Hinckley Company, Manset, and Southwest Harbor Item: 9466 Accession #: 1034 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Businesses, Boatbuilding Business Places, Harbor Publisher: Augustus D. Phillips & Son, Northeast Harbor Place: Southwest Harbor, Manset State: ME Source: Miles W. Weaver Postcard Collection
11164	Ralph Warren Stanley and Marion Louise (Linscott) Stanley, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Warren Stanley and Children	Image, Photograph	Businesses, Boatbuilding Business People	McKenna - Peggy McKenna (1947-)		Southwest Harbor			Ralph Warren Stanley and Marion Louise (Linscott) Stanley, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Warren Stanley and Children Item: 11164 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Businesses, Boatbuilding Business People Creator: McKenna - Peggy McKenna (1947-) Place: Southwest Harbor State: ME Source: Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Warren Stanley
11205	Women Packing Sardine Cans in Maine - Probably Bass Harbor or Southwest Harbor	Image, Photograph, Photographic Print	Businesses, Cannery Business People					Note the scissors hanging on the wall - typical in the old canning factories. The location of this photograph is unknown, but it was in a collection of pictures taken on Mount Desert and could very well have been taken in Bass Harbor, Southwest Harbor or Manset.	Women Packing Sardine Cans in Maine - Probably Bass Harbor or Southwest Harbor Item: 11205 Type: Image, Photograph, Photographic Print Subject: Businesses, Cannery Business People State: ME Source: NOAA's Historic Fisheries Collection Description: Note the scissors hanging on the wall - typical in the old canning factories. The location of this photograph is unknown, but it was in a collection of pictures taken on Mount Desert and could very well have been taken in Bass Harbor, Southwest Harbor or Manset.
11796	Herbert Guy La Count working on a Navy Yawl	Image, Photograph	Businesses, Boatbuilding Business People					Left to Right: Herbert Guy La Count (1891-1958) Unknown man working on a Navy Yawl	Herbert Guy La Count working on a Navy Yawl Item: 11796 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Businesses, Boatbuilding Business People State: ME Source: Ralph Warren Stanley Collection Description: Left to Right: Herbert Guy La Count (1891-1958) Unknown man working on a Navy Yawl
11853	Haying on Great Cranberry Island	Image, Photograph	Businesses, Farming People			Cranberry Isles, Great Cranberry Island		Left to Right: "Kit" - the horse Charles Samuel Spurling (1880-1911) Viola Florence Joy (1887-1911) Bernice Spurling (1904-1929) Clarence Freeman Joy (1893-1988) In the wagon (tentative identification): Walter F. Joy (1891-1974) Clyde E. Spurling (1910-1934)	Haying on Great Cranberry Island Item: 11853 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Businesses, Farming People Place: Cranberry Isles, Great Cranberry Island State: ME Source: Collection of the Birlem Family Description: Left to Right: "Kit" - the horse Charles Samuel Spurling (1880-1911) Viola Florence Joy (1887-1911) Bernice Spurling (1904-1929) Clarence Freeman Joy (1893-1988) In the wagon (tentative identification): Walter F. Joy (1891-1974) Clyde E. Spurling (1910-1934)
11854	Haying on Great Cranberry Island	Image, Photograph	Businesses, Farming People					Left to Right: "Kit" - the horse Charles Samuel Spurling (1880-1911) Mary "Mamie" Frances Spurling (1877-1965) Bernice Spurling (1904-1929) - died of TB in Arizona Clarence Freeman Joy (1893-1988) In the wagon (tentative identification): Walter F. Joy (1891-1974)	Haying on Great Cranberry Island Item: 11854 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Businesses, Farming People State: ME Source: Collection of the Birlem Family Description: Left to Right: "Kit" - the horse Charles Samuel Spurling (1880-1911) Mary "Mamie" Frances Spurling (1877-1965) Bernice Spurling (1904-1929) - died of TB in Arizona Clarence Freeman Joy (1893-1988) In the wagon (tentative identification): Walter F. Joy (1891-1974)
11855	Haying on Great Cranberry Island	Image, Photograph	Businesses, Farming People			Cranberry Isles, Great Cranberry Island		Left to Right: Clarence Freeman Joy (1893-1988) Charles Samuel Spurling (1880-1911) Bernice Spurling (1904-1929) - died of TB in Arizona In the wagon (tentative identification): Walter F. Joy (1891-1974) Clyde E. Spurling (1910-1934)	Haying on Great Cranberry Island Item: 11855 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Businesses, Farming People Place: Cranberry Isles, Great Cranberry Island State: ME Source: Collection of the Birlem Family Description: Left to Right: Clarence Freeman Joy (1893-1988) Charles Samuel Spurling (1880-1911) Bernice Spurling (1904-1929) - died of TB in Arizona In the wagon (tentative identification): Walter F. Joy (1891-1974) Clyde E. Spurling (1910-1934)
5921	Workers Drying Fish at Stanley Fisheries	Image, Photograph	Businesses, Fishery Business People			Southwest Harbor, Manset			Workers Drying Fish at Stanley Fisheries Item: 5921 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Businesses, Fishery Business People Place: Southwest Harbor, Manset State: ME
6945	Christopher Wendell Lawlor Driving His Ice Wagon	Image, Photograph	Businesses, Other Business People			Southwest Harbor	17 Chris' Lane	Left to Right: Unknown man Joseph Christopher Lawlor (1925-2002) Christopher Wendell Lawlor (1893-1956) Chris, like many people of his time, used the chassis or wheels or parts of a worn out Ford Model A automobiles or trucks as the base for his hay and ice wagons. The wagon shown here has Model A. wheels.	Christopher Wendell Lawlor Driving His Ice Wagon Item: 6945 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Businesses, Other Business People Place: Southwest Harbor State: ME Address: 17 Chris' Lane Source: Collection of William J. Lawlor Description: Left to Right: Unknown man Joseph Christopher Lawlor (1925-2002) Christopher Wendell Lawlor (1893-1956) Chris, like many people of his time, used the chassis or wheels or parts of a worn out Ford Model A automobiles or trucks as the base for his hay and ice wagons. The wagon shown here has Model A. wheels.

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