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Echo Lake Camp - Appalachian Mountain Club - Southwest Harbor, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Places, Camp
  • 1932 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
"The Appalachian Mountain Camp at Echo Lake was established in 1922..." - Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 126 - 1938. Ralph Stanley says that the Appalachian Mountain Club tents were stored in the sheds behind his house at 102-104 Clark Point Road in the 1930s. He remembers watching them hauled out of the sheds that later became his boat building shop, every Spring. [show more]
Ernest T. Richardson's Maplewood Lunch and Tourist Camps
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Negative
  • Places, Camp
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Motel
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1935-09-02
  • In Copyright
Description:
Automobiles: Far left – 1931 Packard Coupe Middle – 1933 or 1934 Ford 2 Door Sedan Right – 1934 Hudson Sedan
Article from Happy Days - Civilian Conservation Camp Newspaper
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Places, Camp
  • CCC
  • 1934-02-10
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Text of article reads: "BELIEVE IT OR NOT - but Co. 158, Great Pond Camp, Southwest Harbor, Maine: Is located on an island in the Atlantic ocean - Mountains, lakes and sea surround it - Fishing and swimming are to be enjoyed in the summer - Hunting in the fall and skating, skiing, snowshoeing, basketball and dancing in the winter - Has had no casualties since its origin - Has a CCC member 75 years old - Has a "dream-walking" who usually is picking himself up all day long - Has curtains (given by C.O.'s wife) a fireplace, orange and brown furniture and games in its attractive Recreation Room - Has a radio in each barracks - Has city water and lights - Has constructed fish pools where trout are being raised for the state - Has the prettiest log cabin ever built for the C.O. and his family - Has mass said on Saturdays until the boys didn't know whether they were Jewish or Catholic - Has been running itself for three months without help of regular army soldiers - Has First Lieutenant P.A. Harris, C.A.C. for a C.O. Take a look at our fireplace, barracks and our beautiful company street. What do you think? - The Boss Reporter" [show more]
Ernest T. Richardson's Maplewood Lunch and Tourist Camps
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Negative
  • Places, Camp
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1937-07
  • Mount Desert
  • In Copyright
Description:
Ernest T. Richardson is most probably standing on the porch watching Ballard photograph his business. Automobiles: Left – Dodge Middle – 1928 Buick Right – 1933 or 34 Ford Note the woman pumping gas.
Girl Scout Camp at Echo Lake
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Places, Camp
  • 1935 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Girl Scout Camp at Echo Lake
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
The camp was at the sand beach end of Echo Lake.