The story of Bar Harbor, an informal history recording one hundred and fifty years in the life of a community, Part 18

Author: Hale, Richard Walden, 1909-1976
Publication date: 1949
Publisher: New York, I. Washburn
Number of Pages: 276


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5. Paris, Service Hydrographique Archives. No. 12, 5.1, copy by kindness of the John Carter Brown Library.


6. Tuttle, Charles W. Historical Papers. Boston, 1889. pp. 127-59, 341-99. Documentary History of Maine. VI, pp. 42, 183.


7. Hubbard, William. History of the Indian Wars. Boston, 1865. II, PP. 33, 174, 197. Daviault, op. cit., passim.


8. Morse, William Inglis. Acadiensa Nova. London, 1935. 2 vols. I, 143-98; Moorehead, Warren K. Report on the Archaeology of Maine. Andover, 1922, pp. 163, 166-7; Inventaires des Fiefs, III, 241, IV, 33, 108, 116, 138-9, 178-80; Rameau op. cit. II, 402.


9. Raymond, W. G. Earliest Routes of Travel between Canada and Acadia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Canada. 1921. II, 33 ff.


10. Letter from Mr. Lawrie Holmes, Northeast Harbor, Maine.


II. Delanglez, Jean. Cadillac's Early Years in America, in Mid- America XXVI (1944, n.s. XV), pp. 3-39, and a forthcoming publica- tion of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Antoine de Lamothe- Cadillac, Lord of Douaquet, by Richard W. Hale, Jr., both go into the sources of information on Cadillac's early career.


12. Massachusetts Historical Society. Collections. Series I, Vol. III, p. 82.


13. Paris. Bib. Nat. Clairambault 849. 70. Copy from Library of Congress. Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society. Historical Collec- tions. Vol. XXXIII (1904), pp. 648-9.


14. Quebec, Provincial Archives. Registre d'intendance No. 3, f. 18, and Insinuations du Conseil Souverain. Cahier No. 2, f. 89.


15. C II, D 2. 135. Date is clearly 1689, though misfiled as 1690. A.M. B 12, 83-88.


16. See above, Note II, for reasons why Miss Laut's Cadillac, Knight Errant of the West. Indianapolis, 1931, which makes Cadillac a sort of Lanny Budd to Louis XIV as Franklin D. Roosevelt, has been superseded as an account of Cadillac's early life.


17. For D'Iberville's career see the excellent but indexless Fregault, Guy. D'Iberville le Conquerant, Montreal, 1944. Also, BM 12, 83-88.


18. CII, D3, 103, D 4. 36; Admiralty Library, Map No. 22 in Amer- ica, Vol. 2. Dominion Library Number T 30. Sawtelle, William O. Acadia, the pre-Loyalist Migration. Philadelphia. 1926.


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19. Mr. Kenneth Roberts has handled this so well as to need no fur- ther comment.


3. Proprietors and Settlers


I. See Sawtelle, William O. Mount Desert Island from Champlain to Bernard.


2. See Tercentenary History of Massachusetts. Vol. II.


3. Based on search made in the Bernard MSS (part of the Sparks MSS) at Harvard, Vols. I, II, III, IV, V, X, and XI, by Mr. Douglas Leach.


4. This and subsequent material, unless dated and noted as from another source, comes from Eben M. Hamor's untitled but well indexed volumes on Eden Town history, or from microfilm copies of town records.


5. Owen, William. Narrative of American Voyages and Travels. New York. 1942. pp. 137-8.


6. Houlton, Augustus F. Maine Historical Sketches. Lewiston, Maine. 1929. pp. 231-54.


7. Kidder, Frederick. Military Operations in Eastern Maine. Albany, 1867. pp. 265-6.


8. Admiralty 52 Vol. 2127, No. 4. p. 29 (enlargement lent by Mr. Leslie Hotson, of Sorrento, Maine) .


9. Adams, John. Life and Works. Boston. 1850-56. 10 vols. III, 300-7. De Grégoire material; Chapters 5 and 16 of the Acts of 1787, including many supporting documents filed with the texts, are in the Bar Harbor archives, as are quotations from the press as referred to by date.


4. The Town of Eden, Maine


I. This, like most such material, is an analysis of Hamor and the Town Records, as under dates or names ascertainable in indices.


2. Court Records. 1795 session.


3. Court Records. 1801 session.


4. Eden Church Records. 1801, 1814.


5. Millet, Rev. Joshua. A History of the Baptists in Maine. Portland, Maine. 1845. p. 309 ff.


Material on shipping is an analysis of microfilm prepared by the Na- tional Archives, lists made by Hamor, and by Mr. Robert Applebee, and of photostats of Shipping Registers.


Nicholas Thomas's "Autobiography," which is printed in Mrs. Eck- strom's Minstrelsy of the Maine Border also, is quoted from the family copy of Mr. John William Somes, as is Thomas's other verse.


Census material taken from printed Census Report of 1790, tran-


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script of Town Clerk's Vital Records, photostats of Census Reports of 1800-1820, microfilms of Census Reports of 1830-1880.


Sources for Cranberry Rendezvous: National Archives. Records of the Topographical Engineers. Cupboard 13, Shelf 2, 7, 19, survey books; correspondence, 1820-22, entries 952, 963, 971, 1099, 1722; Service record, Bache, Hartmann.


5. Artists and Boarders-with a Military Interlude


Besides the printed diary of Thomas Cole, and photographs of his sketchbook, the basic sources are the diary of Mr. Charles Tracy, es- pecially pp. 1-8, 23, and 83; the several editions of the Martin, De Costa, Lapham, Sherman, and Chisholm Guides, many of which have annually changing steamship advertisements; Mr. John Richardson's Steamboat Lore of the Penobscot, especially pp. 43-52, 63-72; the relevant census microfilms; the Hamor typescript; and the Roberts Scrapbook, from which last come the newspaper clippings quoted. Maine Regimental Histories were used to check on the Hamor lists of Civil War service.


Quotations are from: Bryant, William Cullen, editor, Picturesque America. New York, 1869. p. 3; Willetts, Joseph, The Cruise of the Forest Home, New York. 1866. pp. 103-46; and Swift, Henry Walton. Mount Desert in 1873. Boston, 1873. pp. 12-14.


The diary of Dr. Richard H. Derby, and additional information, were supplied by Mr. J. Lloyd Derby, of New York.


6. Cottagers Versus Boarders


Sources are the legislative files of the Secretary of State of Maine, especially for the session of 1875, Filing Number (not Act) 289; guides and census reports as above, and the Mount Desert Herald and its suc- cessor newspapers the Bar Harbor Record and the Bar Harbor Times.


For the Green Mountain Railway see the file in the Sawtelle Collection, which contains tickets, notices, etc., Maine Secretary of State legislative file 199 of the 188 1-3 session, the Ellsworth American, April 26, 1933, and Appalachia, December, 1943, article Mount Desert's Mountain Railway, by Frank H. Burt.


7. The Summer Colony


Much of this chapter is based, as is obvious, on information generally current in the Bar Harbor community. But it has been the author's policy, in writing this chapter, to avoid personal names, unless they


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have already been printed, and to support generalizations by references to fiction.


The article by Robert Grant referred to is his Plea for Bar Harbor, in the December, 1883, Outing. The Bar Harbor Historical Collection has the records of the Reading Room, and notices, lists of members, cards of invitation of it and of the Canoe Club. Information on the great auto- mobile war was obtained at a meeting at the Jesup Library, in 1947, organized by Mrs. John De Witt Peltz, the Bar Harbor Times, August 7, 2I, and 28, 1907, and from Dorr, George Bucknam. Acadia National Park, Its Growth and Development, Bangor, Maine. 1948. pp. 5-14.


8. Recent Events


The story of the National Park is to be found in Mr. George Bucknam Dorr's two thin volumes, Acadia National Park, Its Origin and Back- ground, Bangor, Maine, 1942, and, posthumously published, Acadia National Park, Its Growth and Development, Bangor, 1948. These have been checked with the National Park, National Monument and other Interior Department files now open to the public in the National Archives, and light upon them has been secured by an interview with the Hon. John A. Peters of Ellsworth, Maine. Other sources are the pri- vately printed Hale-Ickes correspondence, the late David O. Rodick's typescript History of the Bar Harbor Banking and Trust Co., the card catalogues of corporation records kept by the Maine Secretary of State, and the official records of Lieutenant Fabbri and of the Otter Creek Radio Station in the National Archives, the files of the Bar Harbor Times, and Linscott, Edward L., The History of Secondary Education in Washington and Hancock Counties, Orono, Maine, 1932 (University of Maine Publication Number) .


9. The Great Fire and After


Three types of sources were used. The press of the immediate time; official reports issued by the fire and police departments and the National Red Cross; and, above all, personal knowledge and interviews with all officials concerned. The author reached Bar Harbor the night of October 24, and stayed on the island for a week thereafter.


The following books and pamphlets, though not referred to in the notes, form a basis for statements made in the text; this is not, how- ever, a complete list of books and other writings consulted:


Burton, Clarence M. A Sketch of the Life of Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac, the Founder of Detroit. Detroit. 1895. 24 p.


The same. In the Footsteps of Cadillac. Detroit. 1899. 15 p.


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Chase, Eliza Brown. Over the Border. The Separate Towns of Nova Scotia and a Chapter on Mount Desert. New York. 1889. 215 p.


Detroit Public Library. Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac and Detroit before the Conspiracy of Pontiac. Detroit. 1912. 30 p.


Crawford, F. Marion. Love in Idleness. New York. 1897. 218 p.


Davis, William Morris. An Outline of the Geology of Mount Desert. (pp. 43-71 of Rand and Redfield. Flora of Mount Desert.)


Fairfax, Mildred. At Mount Desert, A Summer's Sowing. Chicago. 1893. 374 p.


Forestie, Edouard. Lamothe-Cadillac, Fondateur de la ville de Detroit. In Bulletin Archélogique et Historique de la Société de Tarn et Garonne. Vol. XXXV (1907) pp. 175-96.


Ganong, William Francis. A Monograph of Historic Sites in the Province of New Brunswick. In Royal Society of Canada, Transactions, 1899. Section II, pp. 213-357.


Harrison, Mrs. Burton. Bar Harbor. In The Independent, June 4, 1903. pp. 1808-13.


The same. Bar Harbor Days. New York. 1887. 182 p.


The same. Golden Rod, an Idyll of Mount Desert. New York and Bar Harbor, 1879. 115 p.


Lapham, William Berry. Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island. Au- gusta, Maine, 1887 and 1888. (3 editions) .


Le Blant, Robert. Une Figure legendaire de l'histoire d'Acadie. Le Baron de St. Castin. Dax, France, 1936. 177 p.


Murchie, Guy. Saint Croix, the Sentinel River. New York. 1947. 281 p.


Street, George E. Mount Desert, a History. Boston, 1905, and (re- vised by Samuel A. Eliot) Boston, 1926.


(This, which reprints verbatim many documents, is not quoted in the notes, since in each case checks were made with the original docu- ments. )


Wasson, Samuel. A Survey of Hancock County. Augusta, Maine. 1878. 91 p.


Index


Abbadie de St. Castin. See St. Castin, Abbadie de


Abbe, Doctor Robert, 195, 209


Abbe Museum, 51, 209


Abenaki Indians, 23, 63, 66, 67-68


"Acadia," name, 23; application of the name, 28-29


Acadia National Park, 15, 19, 20, 23, 191-204; number of visitors, 200


Aernauts, Captain Julian, 46-48


Albert, François, execution, 65


Alexander, Sir William, 36-37, 47, note; 71


Allegiance, raid by, 85-87 Allen, Colonel John, 83-86, 115


Andros, Governor Sir Edmund, 50, 54, 56


Argall, Captain Samuel, attack on French, 32-34 "Aroostook War," 117 Asticou, Chief, 31, 49


Astor, Mrs. John Jacob, 179


Atlantic House, 146; fire, 143-44


Automobiles, 201; barring, and admit- tance, 175-77


Bache, Alexander Dallas, 128


Baoudin, Father, 66


Baptist Church, 16, 110-12, 125


Bar Harbor Club (Swimming Club), 169, 172, 178; history, 184-85


Bar Harbor Hospital. See Mount Desert Island Hospital


Bar Harbor Water Company, 163-64, 207


Bar Harbor Yacht Club, 174, 188


Bay Side, 165


Bay View House, 146; typhoid outbreak, 142-44


Beaches, sand, 24


Belmont Hotel, 150, 159


Bernard, Governor Sir Francis, and grant of Island to him, 17, 73-77, 79, 87, 89, 98


Bernard, Sir John, and Mount Desert land, 89-91, 93, 97-98, 100 Bernard partition of land, 95 Biard, Father, 30-34 Bibb (Coast Guard Cutter), 230-3 I


Bingham, William, 97, 124; estate, 198


Biological Laboratory. See Mount Desert Biological Laboratory Black, George, 109


Black, Colonel John, 116


Blaine, James G., 133, 163-65, 167 Boer War flag incident, 170


Bonaventure, Simon Pierre Denys de, 62- 67


Books on Bar Harbor, 19, 68, 80-81, 127,


136, 175, 180-81, 190, 194, 197. See also Guidebooks


Boston Symphony Orchestra, 208


Boundary question, Nova Scotia-Massa- chusetts, 26, 70-72, 87-88


Brewer, Edward, 124-25


Brunnow, Rudolph E., 193


Building of Arts, 191, 208-09


"Bundling," 79


Businesses, old, 207


Cabot, John and Sebastian, 20, 22


Cadillac, Antoine de Lamothe, 17, 40, 44, 56-62, 68, 98, 198; heirs of, 41


Cadillac, Marie Thérèse de Guyon de la Mothe (wife of Cadillac), 68


Cadillac, Marie Thérèse de Lamothe (granddaughter of Cadillac). See Gré- goire, Marie Thérèse de la Mothe Cadil- lac


Caffinière, M. de la, 58, 60 Camden Hills, 36


Camp Cove, 8 3


Campbell, Alexander, 82


Campobello Island, 79, 98


Canoe Club, 148, 169, 171-73


Canoeing, 171-72


Captains, sea, 122


Carpenter, Orient H., 134, 145


Carter, Robert, 13 I


Castine, Maine. See Pentagoet


Census returns, 140-41, ISI


Champlain, Samuel de, 17, 19, 20, 24-28; monument, 19, 194 Chaperonage, 168


Charles I of England, 36, 37


Charles II of England, 39-42, 46


Charles Houghton, 140


Charter, New England, 36


Chebacco boats, 76, 100


Church, the, 16, 31, 109-14. See also names of churches and denominations Church, Captain Benjamin, 50, 63, 67


Church, Frederick Edwin, 127, 130, 131, I38 Civil Air Patrol, 21I Civil War, 133-35


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Clark, Deacon, 137, 140


Clergue, Frank H., 156-60, 162, 197


Cleveland, Grover, 165


Clubs, 148. See also names of clubs


Cobbett, Thomas, 49-50


Cohen, Benjamin V., 203


Cole, Thomas, 17, 126-27, 160, 165, 206 Collier, Sir George, 8 5


Confoulens, Bancel de, 95


Congregational Church, III


Construction and land boom, 148, 153-54


Corcoran, Thomas G., 203


Cortereal, Gaspar, 17, 22, 47, note


"Cottages," 167


Crabtree's Point, 82-83


Cramton, Representative Louis, 202


Cranberry Islands, 63, 78, 79, 86, 115, I86


Crawford, Francis Marion, 180-8 1 Cromwell, Oliver, 38, 41


Cuyler, T. De Witt, 185-86


d'. For names beginning with d', see prin- cipal part of name; e.g., Abbadie


Dana, Richard Henry, Two Years Before the Mast, 124


Dane, Nathan, 106


David Marsh Townships, 72


De. For names beginning with De, see principal part of name; e.g., St. Castin Deane, Silas, 87


Deasy, Luere B., 177


De Costa, Reverend Benjamin Franklin, 19, 154; Scenes in the Isle of Mount Desert, 136


Deeds and grants, land, 29


Deering, Captain Charles, 131, 134-35


Deering House, 13 I


Defending the Island, by James Otis Kaler, 68


Democracy, 104-08 De Peyster, General Watts, 19


Derby, Doctor Richard H., 139-40, 144; Diary of, 136


Des Barres, Captain J. W., Atlantic Nep- tune, 78


"Des Isles," pronunciation of, 139 Des Isles, Edwin, 145, 148, 163


Des Isles, Louis, 96


Dimmock, Mrs. Henry F., 169, 208


Division of the town (1795), 101


"Doctor's Creek," 75 Doctors, 118


Dorr, Charles, 15 2 Dorr, George Bucknam, 18, 130, 152, 177,


181, 185, 191-92, 208, 212; part in establishment of Acadia National Park, 191-202; book on establishment of the Park, 197


Douaquet, Seigneurie of, 29, 40, 41, 50-52, 55-57, 59, 61, 62, 67-69, 89, 90, 92, 198, 199


Douaquet River. See Sullivan River and Skillings


Downs, Benjamin, 112


Drinking. See Prohibition


Duck Brook, 77, 78, 86, 128, 132


Dunton, Walter H., 156, 160


Dutch, raid by, 40, 46-47


Dynamiting of Green Mountain Road, 157-58 Eagle Lake (Great Pond), 131, 146, 160, 195,197,218


Eagle Lake House, 154


Eastern Railway, 135


Eastern Steamship Line, 215


Eden (now Bar Harbor), 98-125; first name of Bar Harbor, 15; origin of the name, 10I


Eden Baptist Church, 16


Eden Water Company, 163, 164


Electric light company, coming of, 155


Elibu T. Hamor, 120, 125


Eliot, Doctor Charles William, 19, 109, 175; John Gilley, 190; The Proper De-


velopment of Mount Desert Island, 194 Eliot, Charles William, Jr., 194


"Endowment, concurrent," 110, 113 Envieux, 64, 65


Epidemics, 142-47


Eprésmenil, Duc d', 92-93, 95


Explorations, 25-39; limitations on, 21, 36


Fabbri, Allesandro, 17-18, 210-II


Fabbri, Ernesto, 212-13


Families, early English, 77, 98-99


Fauna and flora, 131-32


Fence viewers, 16


Fernald, Senator Bert, 201


Ferry, Narrows, 108, 109


Feudalism, 29, 37, 40-69


Fire at the Atlantic House, 143-44


Fire, Great, of 1947, 15, 216-42 Fire of 1848, 195


"Fish Pond, The," 166, 178


Fisheries, and fishing, 94-95, 100, 119, 121, 134, 146, 208 Flags, eight, over Bar Harbor, 47, note Flora and fauna, 13 1-32


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Freeman, Samuel, 94 Frontenac, Count Louis Bouade de, 45, 47, 59, 61, 64, 66 Frontier, Maine as, 99-100


Fundy, Bay of, 21, 22, 24


Fur trade, 32, 38, 41, 47, 48, 50-51, 98 G. A. R. post, 134


"Gentleman's Club," 170


Geology, 18


Gilley, John, 109; book on, by Charles William Eliot, 190


Godwin, Parke, 192


Golf course, Kebo Valley, 152, 174


Gómez, Estevan, 23


Googin's Ledge, 12, 174


Government, organization of, 100-07


Grandfontaine, Hubert d'Andigny de, 42 Grant, Robert, "Plea for Bar Harbor," 168


Grant, Ulysses S., 142 Grant & Little, 163


Great Fire of 1947, 15, 216-42


Great Pond. See Eagle Lake


Green Mountain. See Mount Cadillac


Green Mountain Carriage Road, 197; dynamiting of, 157-58


Green Mountain Hotel, 129


Green Mountain Railway, 148, 156-60


Grégoire, Marie Thérèse de la Mothe Cadillac, de (granddaughter of Cadil- lac), and husband, Barthélemy, claims to seigneurie, 88-98


Grégoire grant, 198, 199


Guast, Pierre du. See Monts, Sieur de


Guercheville, Madame de, 29-30


Guidebooks, 19, 136, 142, 148, 151, 166, 177 Gurley, Royal, 96 Hale, Eugene, 158 Hale, Frederick, 196-97, 199, 201 Hamlin, Hannibal, 133, 159


Hamor, Eben M., 77, 78, 99, 109, 113, 119-20, ISI Hamor, John, 79 Hamor, Richard, 129, 157 Hamor, Thomas, 99 Hamor family, 114, 124


Hancock County Trustees of Public Res- ervations, 19, 191, 194, 202


Harding, Warren G., 173 Hardy, Alpheus, 166


Harpswell Laboratory. See Mount Desert Biological Laboratory Harrison, Benjamin, 165


Health. See Sanitation


Henry IV of France, 25, 29 Hermite, Capt. L', 66, 67


Higgins, Albert, 128, 13 1


Higgins, Israel, 16


Higgins, Levi, 82, 83, 110


Higgins, Stephen, 146 Higgins family, 77, 124, 136, 139


High school, 214


Hills, Mount Desert. See Mount Desert Hills Hilton, A. F., 156


Hog reeves, 16


Holland, Park, 89


Holland, Samuel, 77


Homans, Mrs. Charles, 194-95


Horse races, 174; trotting, 206


Horse shows, 174-75, 177


Hospital. See Mount Desert Island Hos- pital


Hotchkiss, John Owen, 112


Hotels, 131, 135-36, 139, 142-44, 146, 151, 152, 154, 155, 157, 164, 166, 170, 178, 240-41; burning, in Great Fire of 1947,228 How, Charles, 163


Hull, Captain Samuel, 101


Hull, William, 99


Hunting, Enoch, 112-13, 170-7 1


Iberville, Pierre Le Moyne de, 20, 60, 65, 66 Ickes, Harold L., 202-03 Immigration, 118-19


Indians, 31, 50, 51, 63-64, 66-69, 83-84, 172, 209; Abenakis, 23; found by Champlain, 26-27; King Philip's War, 49; Passamaquoddy and Penobscot, 84, 172 Inns. See Hotels Ironbound Island, 65


Jackson, George, 95-97


Jackson, Roscoe B., and Memorial Labora- tory. See Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory Jacques, Herbert, 174, 193


James II of England, 54


James A. Parker Post, G. A. R., 134


Jefferson, Thomas, 88, 106


Jesuit Relations, 34 Jesuits, 19, 30, 32-33, 136


Jesup, Morris K., 209 Jesup Fund, 214 Jesup Library, 130, 209-10 John Gilley, by Charles W. Eliot, 190


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Johnson, Senator Charles S., 196, 198 Jones, John, survey, 74-75


Jones, Nathan, 80-81, 93-94


Jordan family, 124-25


Kebo Valley Golf Club, 152, 169, 174, 185-86


Kennedy, John S., 167, 197, 207


King Philip's War, 49


King William's War, 17


Knox, General Henry, 88, 92


Laboratories, 191


Laboratory, biological. See Mount Desert Biological Laboratory


Laboratory, memorial. See Roscoe B. Jack- son Memorial Laboratory Lafayette, Marquis de, 88, 92


Lafayette Park. See Acadia National Park


Lamont, Mrs. Daniel S., 165


Land and construction boom (1880's), 148, 153-54


Land companies, 161-62


Land grants and deeds, 29


Land system, New England, 72-73


Land titles, 83; basis, 57-58


Lane, Franklin K., 181, 192, 198-99


Langlois, Philip, 93, 95-96


Laval, Madame, 96


Leland family, 140


Leland's Cove, 77, 205


Light, electric company, coming of, 155


Lincoln County, 71


Liquor drinking. See Prohibition


Logging. See Lumbering


London, Mrs. Jack, 123


Lords of Trade and Plantation, 71


Louis XIV of France, 40, 41, 46, 47, note; 59, 60, 64 Lubec Bank, 208 Luders class boats, 188


Lumbering, 95, 100, 103, 107, 119, 121, 132, 195-96 Lynam, Harry, 197


Lynam, John S., 136


Lynam, William, 99


Lynam family, 130, 138, 164


Lynam Farmhouse, 136


Mail, carrying of, 116


Main Street, 153; construction of, 135-36


"Maine Law." See Prohibition


Maine Seacoast Mission. See Seacoast Mis- sion Manning, George, 48, 49 Mansell, Sir Robert, 35-36 Mansell, Mount, 36


Mansett, 36 Map of 1772, 77-78 Mapping. See Surveys


Maps, path, 193 Margaretta affair, 80-81, 93 Marsh, David, 72


Martin, Mrs. Clara Barnes, 136; guide- book, 148, 15I


Massachusetts, separation from, 16, 115 Massachusetts-Nova Scotia boundary ques- tion, 70-72 Masse, Father, 30, 3 2


McFarland, Harry S., 212


McFarland, John, 124


Meetings, town, 113-14


Memorial Laboratory. See Roscoe B. Jack- son Memorial Laboratory Methodist Church, 113


Mexican War, 134


Mission, Seacoast. See Seacoast Mission


Mitchell, Dr. S. Weir, 205


Mockawando, Chief, 42-43


Montigny, Captain Jacques Testard de, 64-65


Monts, Sieur de (Pierre du Guast), 25-28, 29, 37, 198


Morell, Edward, and Morell Park, 191, 201, 206-07


Morgan, Mr. and Mrs. J. Pierpont, 130-3 I Morris, John A., 167


Morton, Perez, 94, 95


Morton, Doctor William J., 139, 145


Motor cars. See Automobiles


Mount Cadillac (Mount Desert; Green Mountain; Newport Mountain), 15, 18, 20, 22, 24, 36, 63, 124, 128-30, 154, 193


Mount Cadillac Radar Station, 191


Mount Cadillac Road, 201


Mount Desert Bridge, 150, 213


Mount Desert Bridge Corporation, 109


Mount Desert Ferry, 161


Mount Desert Herald, 154


Mount Desert Island Biological Labora- tory, 124, 191, 205-06


Mount Desert Island Hospital, 147, 191, 205


Mount Desert Larger Parish, 204-05


Mount Desert Plantation, 79, 100-01


Mount Desert Racing Association, 187


Mount Desert Railway Company, 159, 160 Mount Desert River, 71-72


Mount Desert Rock, 63, 66


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Mount Desert Town, 16


Mutual Temperance Society, 170-71 Name, change from "Eden" to "Bar Har- bor," 16-17, 161, 178, 213


Naskeag, 121


National park. See Acadia National Park Nationalities, eight, flags over Bar Harbor, 47, note


Nelson, John, 64 New Brunswick, 87 "New Holland," 47 "New Ireland," 87, 88


New York, projected French attack on, 59,61


Norsemen, discoveries by, 20 ff


Norumbega, fabled city of, 24


Norwood's Cove, battle of, 117


Nova Scotia-Massachusetts boundary ques- tion, 70-72


Novels. See Books Oasis Club, 148, 149, 169, 178


Occupations. See Trades Officers, town, 102; early, 16 Ogden's Point, 140, 162


Otter Cliffs Radio Station, 191, 202, 210- II


Otter Pond Carry, 51


Painters, 17, 126-47


Park, National. See Acadia National Park


Parkman, Francis, 19, 24, 34, 154 Passamaquoddy Indians, 84, 172


Path committee, paths, and maps, 193-94 Pentagoet (Castine), 42, 43, 45-48, 50, 54, 63, 64, 66, 85, 116 Physicians, 118 Pioneers. See Settlers, first


Pirates, 48-49


Plantations and townships, 81-82


Port Royal, Nova Scotia, 25, 28, 29, 38, 45,47,48 Portuguese, first visitors, 22, 23


Postmasters, 140 Postmasterships, longest, 115-16 Prehistory, 18-20, 22


Presidents, visitors to Pot and Kettle Club, 173


Prohibition, 149, 170-71, 178


Proper Development of Mount Desert Island, The, by Charles W. Eliot, 193 Pulitzer, Joseph, 167, 240 Putnam, General Rufus, 89, 99 Radar, 18, 191, 211-12 Radio, transatlantic, 17-18, 191, 202 Radot, Intendant, 59


Railway, Green Mountain, 148, 156-60 Razilly, Claude de, 37-38


Reading Room, 165, 169-70, 178, 211, 239


Religion. See Church, the


Religious settlement, attempted, 29-30


Reservations, public, trustees. See Han- cock County Trustees of Public Reser- vations Ricardo, Petrus, 48


Richardson, Stephen, 82, 83


Roads, early, 83


Roberts, Tobias L., 131, 135, 141, 153 Roberts family, 149


Roberts Wharf, 140, 149


Robeson, William, 139-40


"Rocking," 132, 139, 168 Rodick, Daniel, 131, 136, 150, 178


Rodick, David, 149


Rodick, Fountain, 154


Rodick family, 114, 117-18, 149, 163, 172 Rodick House, 150, 155, 166, 178; out- break of scarlatina, 144-47


Rodick's Island (Bar Island), 117-18, 172


Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 79, 173


Roosevelt, Theodore, 173


Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory, 191, 206, 238; burning in the Great Fire of 1947, 228-29


Rowing trip from Boston to the Island, 139-40 Russell, Thomas, 90 Sage, Russell, 161


St. Castin, Abbadie de, 47, 50, 54, 56, 61, 63-70, 80, 83 St. Croix River, 88


Saltonstall, Richard, 85


Sanitation, 142-47, 164


Sargent, Paul Dudley, 101 7 Saussaye, Sieur de, 30


Sawtelle, William Otis, 55


Sawtelle Collection, 165


Scarlatina outbreak, 144-47


School Union, 213-14


Schools, 108 Schooner Head "schooner," 86-87


Sea captains, 122


Seacoast Mission, 191, 204


Seal Harbor, 194


Sedgwick, Major Robert, 38


Seigneuries in Acadia, 50. See also Feudal- ism Selectmen, 16, 212-13 Settlers, early, 16, 18, 77


Index


258


Sewers, 164 Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate, 129, 193 "Shanties" (songs), 119 Sherman, John, 158 Shipbuilding, 99, 132, 13-5 Shipping, 107 "Shore Club," ,170


Sieur de Monts National Monument. See Acadia National Park Skating roller rink, 155


Skillings River, 93


Slafter, Reverend Edmund, 27


Smith, Doctor Fremont, 205


Society of Jesus. See Jesuits


Somes, Abraham, 75, 76, 82, 83, 99, 130


Somes, Daniel E., 129


Somes family, 78, 109


Somes Sound, 21, 23, 31, 68, 78, 10I


Somesville, 130


Sproul's Restaurant, 171, 178 Stagecoaches, 150


"Stanwood," 167


Steamboat, coming of, 135


Steamship lines, 140, 149, 150, 215


Stevens, Jeremiah and Joseph, 123-24


Stickney, Colonel Albert, 139-40, 144.


Stillman Gott, by Edwin Day Sibley, 190 Stirling, Earl of. See Alexander, William Stores, city, branches in Bar Harbor, 207 Sullivan, Daniel, 86


Sullivan (town), 21, 86


Sullivan Harbor, 48


Sullivan River, 57, 93


Summer colony, 126-89; founding of, 17


Surveys, 77-78, 128-29, 193; by John Jones, 74-75


Swimming Club. See Bar Harbor Club Taft, William Howard, 173


Talleyrand-Périgord, Maurice de, 68, 122


Talon, Jean, 40, 43, 44, 50


Taverns. See Hotels


Taxation, 106-07


Telegraph and telephone, coming of, 152, 154-55 Temperance. See Prohibition Templars, 17I Temple, Colonel Sir William, 38-41, 48


Thayer, James Bradley, 209-10 Thet, Father Gilbert du, 30-3 3


Thomas, John, 16 Thomas, John, Jr., 84


Thomas, Leonard J., 115-16, 140


Thomas, Nicholas, and his rhyming auto- biography, 67-68, 122-23


Thomas, Nicholas, Sr. and Jr., 78 "Thomas District," 16-17, 78, 119 Thomas family, 77, 78


Thompson, Colonel Cornelius, 96 Thompson, Captain William, 109, 123-24 Thompson family, 109, 150


Titles, land, 83; basis of, 29, 57-58


Tombe, Joseph de la, 88-90, 92, 95


Tour, Charles Estienne de la, 29, 37, 38


Tour, Claude de la, 37


Tourists. See Summer colony


Town manager, 16, 212


Town meetings, 113-14


Town-planning board, 240


"Township Number 2," 79 Townships and plantations, 72-73, 81-82 Tracy, Charles, 130


Tracy family, 128


Trades on the Island, 141, 151-53


Train, Arthur, 176


Transportation to the Island, 214


Travel, early, between New York and the Island, 130 Trenton, 16; boundary, 108


Truman, Harry S., 173-74


Trustees of Public Reservations. See Han- cock County Trustees of Public Reser- vations


Typhoid fever outbreak, 142-47


Vanderbilt family, 162, 167


Varney, George, 77


Vergennes, Count de, 88


Verrazanno, Giovanni, 17, 23


Vignon, Armand de, execution, 65


Village Improvement Association, 148, 154, 192-93, 205


Villieu, Lieutenant de, 66


Visitors, noted, 126-31, 130-31, 139-40, 165-66, 173 Walker, Captain Richard, 42


War of 1812, 114-17


War with Mexico, 134


Wars, World, 18, 210-II


Washington, George, 84 Wasson, Samuel, 96-97, 10I


Water supply, 145-47, 163, 195, 203, 207, 218


Waukeag, 50 Wendell, Barrett, 18 I


West Indies, trade with, 12I


Whitney, William C., 165


Williamson, James, 101, 145 1


Wilson, Woodrow, 196, 199, 203


Winskeag Bay, 54-55


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Index


259


Winthrop, John, 17, 36 Wiswell, A. P., 159 Wood, Joseph W., 154, 192 Work, Hubert, 201 World War I, 210-II


World War II, 18 Yacht Club, 174, 186-88 Young, Charles W., 165 Young, Ezra, 82, 83, 86 Zoning, 240


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Trenton


Thomas Island


Sålis C


Goose Cove


Eden Baptist Church


Thomas Bay


Thompson Island and the Bridge


Shipbuilding


Heath


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The fire of 1947 started here


Alleys Island


Shipbuilding


WESTERN BAY


Stage Coaches from Bar Harbor to the Bridge


Indian Point


Green Id.


Black Ja.


Shipbuilding


Bernard


de Gregoire


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Town line as drawn in 1795,


Doctor's Creek


High Head


This way the early settlers drove their cattle to the pasture land of the Heath


Little Round Pond


SOMESVILLE 1762


Somes Pond


Ripple Pond MIN


Round Pond


Captain Argall in the Man'of War "Treasurer destroyed the French Jesuit Mission on Somes Sound in 1613.


SOMES SOUND


Pretty Marsh


Pond


Beech Hill


Hodgdon Pond


Joseph P. Sims Jecit. 1949.


Brown ME


This line and Somes Sound formed the division between the Bernard (English) and de Gregoire( French) grants.


Shipbuilding Biological Laboratory at old Celand Shipyard Jac


Cadillac's Harbor. Anchorage recommended by Cadillac to D'Iberville,


oratory tion


Pot and Kettle Club.


FRENCHMAN'S


BAY


Cookout Point


Hulls Cove


Shipyard


Two French traitors " tomahawked by Pierre Le Moyne D'Iberville in 1692.


D' Iberville's Frigate "Poly" came here so often as to give the bay the name of Frenchman's Bay.


Cake Wood


Bar Island Sheep Porcupine Burnt


Porcupine


Witch Hole Pond


young's Mt.


Bald Porcupine


BAR HARBOR VILLAGE


Great Hill


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Interlaken Hill


Kebo Golf Course


Mª Farlond Mt.


tty's


Kebo Mt.


Eagle Cáke


The Whitecap


Green Mt. Railway


now called Cadillac Mt.


The Bubbles


Bubble Pond


Schooner Head. Artist Colony 1844-1869.


Sargent Mt.


The Beehive


Pemetic Mt.


Mt.


Jordan Pond


Great Head


The Triad


Jordan Mt. Had lock Pond


Otter Creek Champlain .1604.


Gorham Mt


BAR HARBOR AND VICINITY 1796-1946


Cadillac's Passage


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