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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20F9_hot-line-to-europe_Mount-Desert-ME.html
A US Nay radio station here at Otter Cliffs served as the most important World War I facility for receiving transatlantic messages - including the first bulletin about the armistice. Alessandro Fabbri, a wealthy island resident and inventor, built…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20F5_granite-foundations_Mount-Desert-ME.html
Rounded mountains, a deep lake, and sheer cliffs reveal this valley's icy past. But long before glaciers sculpted Acadia's surface, the granite foundation was forged deep in the Earth. Over 500 million years ago, colliding continents created a mas…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20F3_seawater-bay_Mount-Desert-ME.html
You are standing by Somes Sound, one of only a few US fjards - glacially carved valleys drowned by the sea. This five-mile-long bay has attracted people for thousands of years. English homesteaders Abraham and Hannah Somes and James and Rachel Ric…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM200R_bar-island_Bar-Harbor-ME.html
After being privately owned by several families such as the Rodicks and Pineos, the long period of arguments over its development and ideas to build a bridge to Bar Harbor lasted until John D. Rockefeller, Jr. quietly purchased the half of the isl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM200P_the-kedge_Bar-Harbor-ME.html
Formerly the Veazie Cottage< Lower Marker : >This property has beenplaced on theNational RegisterofHistoric Placesby theUnited StatesDepartment of the Interior
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM200M_the-village-green_Bar-Harbor-ME.html
The Village Green was originally the site of the 350-room Grand Hotel. Many stories have been told about the immature Boston boys and the cultured Philadelphia girls who socialized around the "fish pond" at the nearby Rodick House. The H…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM200K_the-ywca-and-jesup-memorial-library_Bar-Harbor-ME.html
Mrs. John S. Kennedy had the YWCA built in 1913 to provide housing for young women who came to town to work in the many summer cottages. It continues to provide housing for women to this day. The Jesup Memorial Library was built in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM200G_the-abbe-museum-congregational-church_Bar-Harbor-ME.html
The original Abbe Museum, which still exists at Sieur de Monts Spring, was founded by Dr. Robert Abbe, a surgeon from New York and a Bar Harbor summer resident, who assembled a collection of early Native American artifacts found in the Frenchman B…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM200F_picture-perfect_Bar-Harbor-ME.html
Sometimes air pollution obscures views like this from Cadillac Mountain and poses a threat to human health, Acadia's water quality, and vegetation. A large percentage of the pollution comes from out of state. Converging air currents from the South…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM200D_volcanic-landscape-exposed_Bar-Harbor-ME.html
You are standing on granite rock formed millions of years ago when a very hot liquid cooled deep below the Earth's surface. Trapped in a magma chamber more than two miles deep, the 1,652°F (900° C) liquid crystallized into the mineral rich, pink…