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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM110R_summer-rusticators-the-tourist-trade-and-the-waukeag-house-hotel_Sullivan-ME.html
With the help of steamship & train travel in the late 1800s, summer tourism peaked. But within a few short decades, the age of the auto and better roads to Bar Harbor - plus closing mines and quarries - led to decades of gradual economic decline a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM110P_the-view-of-frenchman-bay_Sullivan-ME.html
All the mountains that you see are part of Acadia National Park
The Age of Sail lingered into the 1900s as sailing ships proved more economical than steamships for carrying heavy cargos such as granite.
Generations of watercraft ply the bay …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10WO_civil-war-memorial_Ellsworth-ME.html
In honor of the menofEllsworthwho served and to thememory of those whofell on land and seain the war for the Uniontheir grateful townsmenhave raised thisMemorial1861 - 1887
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10W8_linking-oceans-rivers-and-lakes_Mt-Desert-ME.html
A Part of HistoryBoth Native Americans and early settlers enjoyed abundant harvests along this coastal shore. Each spring, thousands of adult alewives made an upstream pilgrimage, moving from salt water into the Mill Pond and up Somes Brook to Som…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10V9_somes-sound_Mt-Desert-ME.html
You are standing beside the only fjord on the east coast of the United States. A fjord is a long, deep, and narrow valley carved by glaciers and flooded by the sea.
At this narrow place between Acadia and Norumbega Mountains, a concentrated ice…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10UK_joseph-t-musetti-jr-veterans-memorial-park_Mt-Desert-ME.html
Honor Roll
W.W. ILester J. Lurvey · Ralph W. Reynolds
W.W. IILeslie D. Wright · Julian G. Smith · Donald F. GravesJoseph P. Chase Jr. · Francis G. KelleyKenneth F. Grindle · George M. Chilles
Korean WarR…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10UC_cadillac-mountain_Bar-Harbor-ME.html
Cadillac Mountin is Acadia National Park's highest elevation and most comprehensive viewpoint. It is also the highest point on the United States Atlantic Coast (1,500 feet/466m). If you stood here alone at dawn you might be the first person in the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10U5_stephen-tyng-mather_Bar-Harbor-ME.html
He laid the foundation of the National Park Service defining and establishing the policies under which its areas shall be developed and conserved unimpaired for future generations. There will never come an end to the good that he has done.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10U0_alessandro-fabbri-lieutenant-u-s-n-r-f_Mt-Desert-ME.html
A resident and lover of Mount Desert Island who commanded the United States Naval Radio Station upon this site from its establishment on August 28, 1917 until December 12, 1919.
At the end of the World War he was awarded the Navy Cross. His cit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10TF_thunder-hole-ranger-station_Bar-Harbor-ME.html
Built as a ranger residence in 1934, the Thunder Hole ranger station later housed the first interpretive displays in the park. Rangers were stationed here to answer visitor questions and present programs about the park.
The Civilian Conservatio…