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| 13432 | Town of Southwest Harbor |
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| 13433 | Clark Point Road |
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| 13434 | Lurvey Family Lands |
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| 13477 | Deacon's Cove, Southwest Harbor Clark's Cove, Southwest Harbor |
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| The cove was named for Deacon Henry Higgins Clark. |  Deacon's Cove, Southwest Harbor Clark's Cove, Southwest Harbor
Description: The cove was named for Deacon Henry Higgins Clark. | ||||
| 13751 | Indian Lot |
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| Now the site of "Indian Lot Cottage" built in 1927 by the Norwoods for George Ashbridge Rhoads and still owned, in 2007, by Rhoads descendents, the Obbard family. "I think it was the same year (1847) that fifteen or twenty Indians from Oldtown camped on the salt water shore opposite Parkers. The chief said they had been rehearsing their old customs and would like the right to give an exhibition if a hall could be found that was large enough. The woolen factory was not in use at that time so it was opened for the purpose…The Indians dressed in their war paint and feathers and gave their dances with flourishing tomahawks and blood-curdling yells. One of the tribe could play the violin with considerable skill…" - Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 255 - 1938. "For many years Indians from Oldtown came every summer and encamped on the rocky lot across from the Parker property. They pitched their tents and remained for the summer, selling their baskets. The men roamed the woods gathering sweet grass and occasionally cutting an ash tree, which right they were vouchsafed by the owners of the land as it was an unwritten law that the Indians could have an occasional tree to use in their work from the land that, not so long before, had belonged entirely to them. They were quiet, law-abiding neighbors and the encampment was one of the picturesque sights of the town. When in 1925 George A. Rhoads of Wilmington, Delaware, built his house on the camp site, he called it Indian Lot.” - Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 167. "Indians from Oldtown, Maine camped on the rocks across [Clark Point Road] from our house [the Parker house at 143 Clark Point Road] each summer. They lived in tents and sold baskets, moccasins and small birch bark canoes. Some of the baskets were made of wood and some almost entirely of sweetgrass which had a very pleasant odor. This grass was secured from the marshes at Bass Harbor and would be cured by being hung up in large bunches. They also cut some ash wood for use in making the wooden baskets. As the same Indians returned year after year we became well acquainted with them. In later years the older Indian boys played baseball with us." - “Recollections of Southwest Harbor, Maine 1885-1894” by Jesse L. Parker, p. 40, manuscript, 1955. This valuable manuscript is a narrative of the early history of the town by an eyewitness. There are largely unknown or unreported facts on almost every page. See “Indians in Eden: Wabanakis and Rusticators on Maine’s Mount Desert Island, 1840s-1920’s” by Bunny McBride and Harlod E. L. Prins. | 
Description: Now the site of "Indian Lot Cottage" built in 1927 by the Norwoods for George Ashbridge Rhoads and still owned, in 2007, by Rhoads descendents, the Obbard family. "I think it was the same year (1847) that fifteen or twenty Indians from Oldtown camped on the salt water shore opposite Parkers. The chief said they had been rehearsing their old customs and would like the right to give an exhibition if a hall could be found that was large enough. The woolen factory was not in use at that time so it was opened for the purpose…The Indians dressed in their war paint and feathers and gave their dances with flourishing tomahawks and blood-curdling yells. One of the tribe could play the violin with considerable skill…" - Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 255 - 1938. "For many years Indians from Oldtown came every summer and encamped on the rocky lot across from the Parker property. They pitched their tents and remained for the summer, selling their baskets. The men roamed the woods gathering sweet grass and occasionally cutting an ash tree, which right they were vouchsafed by the owners of the land as it was an unwritten law that the Indians could have an occasional tree to use in their work from the land that, not so long before, had belonged entirely to them. They were quiet, law-abiding neighbors and the encampment was one of the picturesque sights of the town. When in 1925 George A. Rhoads of Wilmington, Delaware, built his house on the camp site, he called it Indian Lot.” - Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 167. "Indians from Oldtown, Maine camped on the rocks across [Clark Point Road] from our house [the Parker house at 143 Clark Point Road] each summer. They lived in tents and sold baskets, moccasins and small birch bark canoes. Some of the baskets were made of wood and some almost entirely of sweetgrass which had a very pleasant odor. This grass was secured from the marshes at Bass Harbor and would be cured by being hung up in large bunches. They also cut some ash wood for use in making the wooden baskets. As the same Indians returned year after year we became well acquainted with them. In later years the older Indian boys played baseball with us." - “Recollections of Southwest Harbor, Maine 1885-1894” by Jesse L. Parker, p. 40, manuscript, 1955. This valuable manuscript is a narrative of the early history of the town by an eyewitness. There are largely unknown or unreported facts on almost every page. See “Indians in Eden: Wabanakis and Rusticators on Maine’s Mount Desert Island, 1840s-1920’s” by Bunny McBride and Harlod E. L. Prins. [show more] | |||
| 13808 | Eugene M. Norwood Square |
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| The square is at the junction of Main Street and Seal Cove Road, Southwest Harbor, Maine. | 
Description: The square is at the junction of Main Street and Seal Cove Road, Southwest Harbor, Maine. | ||||
| 13891 | 17 Chris's Lane |
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| 14635 | 14 Clark Point Road |
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| 14689 | Main Street, Southwest Harbor |
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| “In 1897, the different societies in the village combined to raise funds for street lights. The lamps were bought and placed near those houses whose owners were willing to furnish the kerosene and keep the lamps trimmed and lighted. These lamps did duty until the installation of electricity in the summer of 1917.” - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 124. | 
Description: “In 1897, the different societies in the village combined to raise funds for street lights. The lamps were bought and placed near those houses whose owners were willing to furnish the kerosene and keep the lamps trimmed and lighted. These lamps did duty until the installation of electricity in the summer of 1917.” - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 124. [show more] | ||||
| 14731 | John Clark House - Freeman House Hotel - Dr. Joseph Dana Phillips House |
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| 1st - The site of the John Clark House – built circa 1825 2nd - The Clark house was subsumed into the Freeman House Hotel - circa 1861-1863 3rd - The Dr. Joseph Dana Phillips House was built on the site. - 1900 | 
Description: 1st - The site of the John Clark House – built circa 1825 2nd - The Clark house was subsumed into the Freeman House Hotel - circa 1861-1863 3rd - The Dr. Joseph Dana Phillips House was built on the site. - 1900 | |||
| 16282 | The Benjamin Herrick Dodge House The Charlotte Rhoades House and Park |
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| 14953 | 297 Main Street |
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| 15909 | Smuggler’s Den Campground |
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| Charles Wallace Birlem and Ben Conley Worcester Jr. built Smuggler's Den Campground on Carroll's Hill, eventually carving out 110 lots. It was sold to Annabellle Dam Worcester after Charles Wallace Birlem’s death 12/6/1976. | 
Description: Charles Wallace Birlem and Ben Conley Worcester Jr. built Smuggler's Den Campground on Carroll's Hill, eventually carving out 110 lots. It was sold to Annabellle Dam Worcester after Charles Wallace Birlem’s death 12/6/1976. | |||
| 12102 | The Dirigo Hotel Beach |
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| 12364 | Aerial View of Southwest Harbor - Head of the Harbor and Clark Point |
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| 12430 | Teacher Emma J. (Coggins) Norwood and Students of the Norwood Cove School at a Valley Cove Picnic |
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| 2740 | Hand Drawn Map of Clark Point |
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| Hand drawn map purchased by Philip Garrett Rhoads from Grace (Myers) Parker, Mrs. Jesse Lindon Parker, June 25, 1967. | 
Description: Hand drawn map purchased by Philip Garrett Rhoads from Grace (Myers) Parker, Mrs. Jesse Lindon Parker, June 25, 1967. | |||
| 2746 | Southwest Harbor, Town of Tremont |
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| 2665 | South West Harbor, Town of Tremont |
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| 2448 | 1951 Map and Cottage Directory of Southwest Harbor, Maine |
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| Directory of Southwest Harbor, Maine compliments of L.S. Robinson Co. Real Estate - Insurance. The numbered locations on this map are index numbers which are explained on the reverse side of the map (the second image of this item). | 
Description: Directory of Southwest Harbor, Maine compliments of L.S. Robinson Co. Real Estate - Insurance. The numbered locations on this map are index numbers which are explained on the reverse side of the map (the second image of this item). | ||
| 2709 | 1921 Sanborn Map Sheet 1 of Manset Shore and Southwest Harbor, Maine |
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| 2710 | 1921 Sanborn Map Sheet 2 of Downtown Southwest Harbor, Maine |
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| 2711 | 1921 Sanborn Map Sheet 3 of Clark Point, Southwest Harbor, Maine |
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| 2540 | Aerial Photo of Fernald Point |
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| 2545 | Aerial Photo of Southwest Harbor Marina |
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