Other towns on Mount Desert Island include Northeast Harbor, Southwest Harbor, Bass Harbor, Seal Harbor, Somerville and Otter Creek.ĪCADIA NATIONAL PARK There are virtually no traces left of the 1947 fire that destroyed a third of the park area. but the population swells to 18,000 in the summer. Today Bar Harbor's year‐round residents number 3.700.
James Wolfe, which opened the land to British settlers from the colonies to the south. France's 150‐year sway ended with the French defeat at Quebec by Gen. Long before the French arrived, the Abenaki Indians frequented the area during summer months, when the average temperature hovers around 65 degrees. It is also dotted with lakes and ponds and crisscrossed by streams, and it is the site of the only national park on the Atlantic coast-Acadia. When Samuel de Champlain sighted the bald summits of the island's mountains in 1604, he dubbed the place “L'Isle Des Monts Deserts.” Actually, it is heavily forested. OVERVIEW-Bar Harbor, which fronts on Frenchman Bay, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, is the major town on the island. The former Stotesbury estate is now the Bar Harbor terminus of the ferry to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, and last year work was begun to convert Sonogee into a nursing home. Nowadays the town's economy largely depends on the annual summer influx of tourists. Today Bar Harbor's palatial mansions and manicured gardens are reminders of this opulent era whose demise was hastened by a disastrous fire in 1947 that destroyed 40 estates, 280 homes and cottages and three summer hotels. Stotesbury, built Wingwood House nearby at a cost of more than $1 million. Radio tycoon Arthur Atwater Kent bought the Sonogee mansion from Frederick Vanderbilt, a grandson of the Commodore, added a wing, an Italian garden with 700 rose bushes and a 10‐car garage complete with carwash and turntable. THE OLD DAYS-During the Depression 30's Bar Harbor, on Maine's Mount Desert Island, was a playground of the rich and prominent.
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