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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]
The Dollar Social at Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Events Organizations, Civic, Public Library		In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	The Dollar Social at Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-12784 Type: Reference Subject: Events Organizations, Civic, Public Library Description: In 1892 the ladies of Southwest Harbor gathered together to raise money for land upon which to build a library building and then reported how they raised their dollar..The Dollar Social was the first fundraising event held for the Southwest Harbor Public Library and the poem describing it was famous in the community for many years.
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
Somesville Library Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Organizations, Civic, Public Library	Mount Desert, Somesville	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Somesville Library Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-14630 Type: Reference Subject: Organizations, Civic, Public Library Place: Mount Desert, Somesville Description: "The public library stands on the site where a building owned by A. C Fernald and used as an undertaker's shop and for the post-office was burned by lightning in 1891 with considerable loss in money as well as property. The land is owned by Mrs. George A. Somes and is leased to the library association, who built the present library in 1895-6." - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 265. [show more]

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