Notable buildings Left to Right: E.A. Lawler Paint Company, 40 Clark Point Road, Map 3 - Lot 108, MHPC #405-0165. William Joseph Tower house (roof peak only), 38 Clark Point Road, Map 3 - Lot 106, MHPC #405-0164. Masonic Hall - 353 Main Street, Map 3 - Lot 96, MHPC #405-0161 - just visible as the large peaked roof on the left at the end of Clark Point Road. The American Gas Accumulator Company Acetylene Traffic Beacon, or "Silent Policeman," is just visible in the center of the photograph at the junction of Clark Point Road and Main Street with the town bandstand behind it. Perry "Ped" L. Sargent's Livery Stable - 7-19 Clark Point Road, Map 6 - Lot 99 - visible as the small building near the right corner of Clark Point Road and Main Street. Gilley Plumbing Company - 21 Clark Point Road, Map 6 - Lot 99 - both the livery stable and the plumbing shop were later subsumed into the later Post Office parking lot. Wilbur C. Wallace house, 29 Clark Point Road, Map 6 - Lot 100, MHPC #405-0083.
Description: Notable buildings Left to Right: E.A. Lawler Paint Company, 40 Clark Point Road, Map 3 - Lot 108, MHPC #405-0165. William Joseph Tower house (roof peak only), 38 Clark Point Road, Map 3 - Lot 106, MHPC #405-0164. Masonic Hall - 353 Main Street, Map 3 - Lot 96, MHPC #405-0161 - just visible as the large peaked roof on the left at the end of Clark Point Road. The American Gas Accumulator Company Acetylene Traffic Beacon, or "Silent Policeman," is just visible in the center of the photograph at the junction of Clark Point Road and Main Street with the town bandstand behind it. Perry "Ped" L. Sargent's Livery Stable - 7-19 Clark Point Road, Map 6 - Lot 99 - visible as the small building near the right corner of Clark Point Road and Main Street. Gilley Plumbing Company - 21 Clark Point Road, Map 6 - Lot 99 - both the livery stable and the plumbing shop were later subsumed into the later Post Office parking lot. Wilbur C. Wallace house, 29 Clark Point Road, Map 6 - Lot 100, MHPC #405-0083. [show more]
The large old tree behind the fence on the right is the same one that is visible in SWHPL 6361 which shows the tree in front of the house inside the corner of that fence.
Description: The large old tree behind the fence on the right is the same one that is visible in SWHPL 6361 which shows the tree in front of the house inside the corner of that fence.
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]
George Ashbridge Rhoads (1860-1935) built Indian Lot Cottage in 1927. Three Chimneys, 141 Clark Point Road, is visible behind and to the left of the trees. With all the visual aids from SWHPL 5525, and repeated searches, archivists could not locate the rocks in the old photographs or find the exact place where the people were sitting. The rocks were probably covered or removed when the land was cleared for the cottage and drive.
Description: George Ashbridge Rhoads (1860-1935) built Indian Lot Cottage in 1927. Three Chimneys, 141 Clark Point Road, is visible behind and to the left of the trees. With all the visual aids from SWHPL 5525, and repeated searches, archivists could not locate the rocks in the old photographs or find the exact place where the people were sitting. The rocks were probably covered or removed when the land was cleared for the cottage and drive.