Description: Rev. Davie was pastor of the churches on both Great Cranberry and Little Cranberry Islands, His files and library were discovered in the house of the late Rev. Paul Olander at Islesford in 2002. The files were turned over to the Islesford Church and by them to the Islesford Historical Society. These documents record the difficulties that the Church on Great Cranberry was having involving ownershipof pews and the conversion from a Christian meeting house to a Congregational church with open pews. The original documents have been given to the GCI Historical Society. [show more]
Description: The video was a student project by Mr. Taylor and others at Bowdoin. It is of high quality and contains excellent interviews with LCI fishermen Jack Merrill, Warren Fernald, Leeman Ham, Paul Thormann, and Curtis Thormann and other lobstermen from Vinalhaven
Description: Woodlawn owner James R.Dwelley died 2/1955 Leased & Operated by Leslie Challis 1956 & by Hugh & Shirley Dwelley 1957 pd $600 rent. Again by Mrs.Challis appears to have paid $800 in 1959. Sale to Bert Spurling was for $9600. plus $400 for the Chevy Station Wagon.
Description: Jacob Lurvey's daughter, Hannah , married William Gilley in 1802 and lived with him on Bakers Island where William was Lightkeeper. One of their sons, Samuel, married Emily Stanley in 1842 and they established the Gilley Farm on Islesford.
Description: Job Stanwood, 1726-1776 . Is thought to have settled for a few years on Islesford before moving to Duck Brook, now Bar Harbor. His grand daughter Mary Stanwood 1816-1888 moved back to Islesford as the wife of Edwin Hadlock. For a record of the Hadlocks of Islesford, see Islesford Historical Society Occasinal Paper # 6 3/1994.
Description: George was one of the Eskimo couple who accompanied Samuel Hadlock Jr. on a show tour of Europe from 1821 to 1826 as written about by Rachel Field in God's Pocket
Description: General Spurling born GCI 3/20/1833. Military records include a copy of certificate for a Medal of HonorReceived while a LT. Col in the 2nd Maine Calvery.
Description: The entries on this document apppear to have been copied from the "Sutton Island" list which is ACQ#0098 above . However, some data has been left out and other data added. We have the original copy plus two copies that we had made and bound in red covers with and index
Description: Irene Bartlett advises that Frank Bartlett found this list in a barn on Sutton Island, Irene took it to the Maine State Archives and they copied it some years ago. Irene has the original and one copy. The list doesn't include the very earliest Stanleys and Bunkers. The list doesn't appear to be an official record that was kept over time, rather it appears ti be a list that someone interested in geneology prepared late in the 1800s. The recorder was someone very knowledgeable on the islands, perhaps, a retired selectmen or town clerk. Someone made a few entries (in a different hand) after the original recorder stopped doing so. We have the original copy plus two copies that we have made and bound in brown covers with an index [show more]
Description: A loose-bound volume of documents copied from the records of the U.S. Light House Service in the national Archives in Washington, D.C. The documents record the acquisition of Bakers's Island by the USG to build a light house. They also record the failed efforts of the USG to have the Gilley family removed from the island for trespass.
Description: Prepared in 1946 by Cordelia Stanwood of Ellsworth at the reequest of her friend Edna Hadlock. It was for the use of Hugh Dwelley in a high school writing project
Description: The downing and salvage of the K-14 is the subject of Islesford Historical Society Occaisional Paper #3 published in July 1992. This latest report concludes, as did the IHS paper, that the K-14 was sgit diwb vy a German submarine not wrecked due to "pilot error" as the Navy concluded. Mr. Greg Brooks was one of the authors of this report, contacted Hugh Dwelley in 1997 and sent a copy of the IHS Iccasional Paper, The IHS paper is not credited in the report. 2 Copies [show more]
Description: Photographs by William Coolidge Lane, (1859-1931), Librarian of Harvard College; father of Rosamond Lane Lord and Margaret Lane, Acq. #0172
Description: Signed on inside cover: E.C. Hadlock(Elmer C. Hadlock) Elmer was Ted's Cousin who spent his career in the US Navy and the Merchant Marine (Contains interesting sketches of military formations etc.)
Description: Ledger A from 1944-1951 B from 1952-1970 Also a record of his work as a laborer at $2.00 per Hour when building Mrs. Eleanor Bright's cottage. Frank Barlett was the builder.
Description: Joanne recovered these from materials being discarded from the Co-op. While the ledgers show amounts being paid to the fishermen daily for their catch, they do not show poundage or price per pound. They do show amounts fishermen paid daily for bait, gasoline, etc.
Description: Joanne recovered these from materials being discarded from the Co-op. While the ledgers show amounts being paid to the fishermen daily for their catch, they do not show poundage or price per pound. They do show amounts fishermen paid daily for bait, gasoline, etc.
Description: Joanne recovered these from materials being discarded from the Co-op. While the ledgers show amounts being paid to the fishermen daily for their catch, they do not show poundage or price per pound. They do show amounts fishermen paid daily for bait, gasoline, etc.
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: Letter and envelope from George Hadlock to Francis G. Fernald about applying for a shared weir or trap license. February 25, 1944 People Mentioned: Percy T. Clarke
Description: 1999 letter from Hugh Dwelley to Ted Spurling accompanying a listing and maps showing countries and states of the United States visited by Dwelley to that date. Travels of Hugo.
Description: Includes numerous beautiful photos of the park features the before and after of the carriage roads. The Kimball House, Jordan Pond House etc,
Description: Contains mostly newspaper clipping re Marion's relatives and friends from Islesford and elsewhere. Also items regarding her teaching career. There is an especially interesting story about the Islesford Bait Shed in the late 1930s or early 1940s
Description: One of the Mayo Families was among the early settlers on Dount Deser. on pg 2 it says that Wilson M. Mayo, born at Eden(BarHarbor) in1845 Worked for Colonel W.E.Hadlock on Little Cranberry as a gardener & farmer
Description: A nautical chart showing Mount Desert Island, the Cranberry Isles, and surrounding islands, with depths, topography, triangulation, and hydrography.
Description: A nautical chart showing Mount Desert Island, the Cranberry Isles, and surrounding islands, with depths, topography, triangulation, and hydrography.
Description: 3 Ring binder of transcriptions of interviews an oral histories by Hugh Dwelley with Tud Bunker, Calvin Alley, Francis Stanley, William Hadlock, Arthur Spurling, Ted Spurling Sr., Emerson Ham, Leeman Ham, Natalie Beal, Irene Bartlett, Ann Morse, and Elmer Hadlock