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Southwest Harbor Public Library Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Organizations, Civic, Public Library Structures, Civic, Library	Southwest Harbor	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Southwest Harbor Public Library Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-3487 Type: Reference Subject: Organizations, Civic, Public Library Structures, Civic, Library Place: Southwest Harbor Description: Nell Thornton famously said, in her book, The Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor, “The Southwest Harbor Public Library had its beginning [as the Tremont Public Library] in 1884 when Mrs. Annie Sawyer Downs gathered a number of discarded books from the hotels, mostly paper covered volumes, and placed them on a shelf in one corner of Dr. R. J. Lemont's drug store…” The library was, as were many small libraries on the coast of Maine, started by “people from away,” in other words, summer people. This small library, however, was quickly adopted by native Southwest Harborians, and has grown, in the almost one and a half centuries since its founding, to be one of Maine’s very few five-star libraries, according to the Library Journal Index of Public Library Service. Thornton, Nellie C., Traditions and records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine (Merrill & Webber Company, 1938, The Southwest Harbor Public Library, 1988) [show more]
Vesta E. (Spear) McRae House and Original Bass Harbor Library Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Organizations, Civic, Public Library Structures, Civic, Library Structures, Dwellings, House	Tremont, Bernard	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Vesta E. (Spear) McRae House and Original Bass Harbor Library Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-13420 Type: Reference Subject: Organizations, Civic, Public Library Structures, Civic, Library Structures, Dwellings, House Place: Tremont, Bernard
Jesup Memorial Library Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Structures, Civic, Library	Bar Harbor	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Jesup Memorial Library Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-15873 Type: Reference Subject: Structures, Civic, Library Place: Bar Harbor Description: "The Jesup Library was founded in 1875 by summer visitors who left their books for winter use, and clubbed together to get the services of a part-time librarian." - “The Story of Bar Harbor – An Informal History Recording One Hundred and Fifty Years In the Life of a Community,” by Richard Walden Hale, Jr., Ives Washburn, Inc., 1949, p. 209.
Bass Harbor Memorial Library Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Structures, Civic, Library	Tremont, Bernard	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Bass Harbor Memorial Library Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-13211 Type: Reference Subject: Structures, Civic, Library Place: Tremont, Bernard
Ellsworth Public Library Meltiah Jordan House Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Structures, Civic, Library	Maine	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Ellsworth Public Library Meltiah Jordan House Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-13281 Type: Reference Subject: Structures, Civic, Library Place: Maine
Manset Library Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Structures, Civic, Library	Southwest Harbor, Manset	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Manset Library Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-13270 Type: Reference Subject: Structures, Civic, Library Place: Southwest Harbor, Manset

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