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Spouting Horn
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Shore
  • Acadia National Park
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Spouting Horn
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Schooner Head
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Shore
  • Acadia National Park
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Schooner Head
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Note: While Schooner Head is completely surrounded by Acadia National Park, it is privately owned and not part of the park.
Monument Cove
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Shore
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Monument Cove
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Balance Rock
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Shore
  • Bar Harbor
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Balance Rock
Southwest Harbor Public Library
The Shore Path - Bar Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Shore
  • Bar Harbor
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
The Shore Path - Bar Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Baker Island Dance Floor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Shore
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Baker Island Dance Floor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
The Baker Island “Dance Floor,” is a series of huge flat slabs of granite found on the south shore, where area-islanders would hold dances on warm summer evenings. Many visitors come here for an “off the beaten path” experience and because of its unique and pleasant setting. “I believe the Thorpe family was instrumental in forming a corporation to purchase a plot of land on Baker’s Island where the dance floor ledges are located to protect the site. When the tremendous sea during a violent storm moved and tipped the large flat rocks out of place a crew of men was sent out to jack them back level.” – The Stanleys of Cranberry Isles…and Other Colorful Characters, Fisheries of Cranberry Island Chapter [show more]
Great Head
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Shore
  • Acadia National Park
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Great Head
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Great Head is located near Sand Beach in Acadia National Park. The area was owned in the early 1900s by the Satterlee family and they built an observatory and a tea house on the point. The ruins of the structure remain. J.P. Morgan had purchased 110 acres on the Maine coast at Mount Desert including Great Head, now given to Acadia National Park, as a gift for his daughter, Louisa. She and her husband Herbert Satterlee had built their country home there and enjoyed it for many years. [show more]
Grapevine Cove
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Shore
  • New England
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Grapevine Cove
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Coffin's Beach
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Shore
  • New England
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Coffin's Beach
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Also known as Wingaersheek Beach, Coffin's Beach is a 0.6-mile long beach located on the Annisquam River in West Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Mitchell's Cove
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Shore
  • Tremont, Bernard
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Mitchell's Cove
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Sand Beach
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Shore
  • Acadia National Park
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Sand Beach
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Crockett Cove, Bernard
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places
  • Places, Shore
  • Tremont, Bernard
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Crockett Cove, Bernard
Southwest Harbor Public Library
The Boiler, Great Cranberry Island
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Object, Other Object
  • Places, Shore
  • Cranberry Isles, Great Cranberry Island
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
The Boiler, Great Cranberry Island
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
The huge 11 ton boulder the local fishermen called “The Boiler” had been lodged in the mud just off Fish Point at the entrance to the Pool or harbor on Great Cranberry Island. The Pool, a good sheltered harbor for schooners, is shallow with a 2-foot draft at low tide, rising to an 8 to 10 foot draft when the tide is in. Vessels kept in the Pool were deep draft vessels and only came in and went out at high tide. There was an area called the "Deep Hole" in the Pool where six or more vessels could anchor. “The Boiler,” about 6 feet wide and 4 feet above the bottom, was not visible when the tide was in and, therefore, a hazard to navigation in the narrow channel. It was called "The Boiler" because the water "boiled" around it when the tide came and went. Samuel Newman Bulger (1835-1919) caught his boat on it one time. Enoch Boynton Stanley (1820-1903), “Uncle Jimmy’s” father, told Sam to turn his vessel around and it would come off the rock. The tide came in, the boat spun around and floated off the rock. Ralph Warren Stanley remembers his great uncle, Lewis Gilley Stanley (1869-1957), William Doane “Uncle Jimmy” Stanley’s brother, telling him about the enormous effort it took to move “The Boiler.” “First the group of men went out on several low drain tides to dig around the rock to break the suction. When they finally got enough dug away, they put an iron eye bolt into the rock, put a big log across two dories and tied a line to the rock. When the tide came in it sank both dories. They worked for months on the project. Next time they tried to move ‘the boiler’ they used four dories and just barely floated the rock. The dories were down to the gunnels. With a line on the dories, eight or nine men stood on the shore where they wanted it and hauled it hand over hand about 80 yards toward them, but before the rock reached its destination, the eyebolt [which had been welted into the top of the rock] came out and the dories popped out of the water. They just left the rock there where it sank on the north side of the Stanley wharf (E.B. Stanley & Sons - the Stanley wharf - on the map - now gone). ‘The Boiler’ is still there. “William D. Stanley and others have at last accomplished their long cherished wish to remove the rock designated as “the Boiler” from the channel near the Fish Point. After much hard labor, they succeeded, by the help of 4 dories in raising, floating and dragging it across to the flats, owned by the late Capt. John Stanley, when it struck a rock and in hauling on it caused the welted iron bolts to pull out, and “the Boiler” was anchored somewhat sooner than had been bargained for, but as it is now safely landed it will probably be allowed to remain where it is. It is very doubtful if any further attempt will be made to change its position, and as it is estimated to weigh 11 tons, it will be the cause of much comment for years to come. Wm. D. Stanley is very elated the he with a few others, should have accomplished the feat of removing the rock, which during the last 140 years has been in the way, and a menace to all boats coming in and going out from all parts of the creek, and they are to be congratulated for having removed the dangerous obstruction.” The Bar Harbor Record, February 23, 1900 - Cranberry Island. [show more]
Preble's Cove
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Island
  • Places, Shore
  • Cranberry Isles, Great Cranberry Island
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Preble's Cove
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Ocean Drive - Acadia National Park
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Shore
  • Acadia National Park
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Ocean Drive - Acadia National Park
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Try House Point
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Shore
  • Tremont, Bernard
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Try House Point
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Bar Harbor Shore Path
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Shore
  • Bar Harbor
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Bar Harbor Shore Path
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Hunters Beach and Hunters Beach Head
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Shore
  • Acadia National Park
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Hunters Beach and Hunters Beach Head
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Back Beach
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Shore
  • Tremont, Bernard
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Back Beach
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Pierce Head
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Shore
  • Acadia National Park, Lafayette National Park
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Pierce Head
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Pierce or Pierce's Head is on the coast of Mt. Desert Island midway between Bracy's Cove and Northeast Harbor, above Sutton Island.
Thunder Hole
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Shore
  • Acadia National Park
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Thunder Hole
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Thunder Hole is a naturally occurring inlet between Great Head and Otter Creak Point. The shape of the rock formation can cause the waves to sound like thunder at the right time in the tide. Thunder Hole is part of Acadia National Park.
The Barque of Barque Beach in Bernard
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Shore
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
The Barque of Barque Beach in Bernard
Southwest Harbor Public Library