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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGX1_glacial-freight_Mt-Desert-ME.html
When the ice that covered this land slowly melted, it dropped in its tracks great accumulations of gravel and rocks. Boulders transported and deposited by glaciers are called "erratics." Erratics are rounded and noticeably different in composition…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGWZ_thunder-hole_Bar-Harbor-ME.html
Here you can witness an ageless battle - the surging power of the ocean vs. the steadfastness of rock. Thunder Hole (just below) is a large, partly submerged crevice with vertical granite walls, one of many such chasms along this shore. When waves…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGWY_acadian-lights_Bar-Harbor-ME.html
Mount Desert Island's coastal waters have always held dangers for boats and ships - rocky shoreline, hidden ledges, and small islands that hide in the fog.Since 1875, Egg Rock Lighthouse perched on the craggy island before you, has helped guide ve…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGWX_the-1947-fire_Bar-Harbor-ME.html
In October 1947 a series of fires lasting 26 days blazed across more than 25 square miles of Mount Desert Island. The fire seriously threatened Bar harbor, and transformed most of the landscape before you into an apparent wasteland. It consumed 17…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGWV_frenchman-bay_Bar-Harbor-ME.html
Vessels of all types have plied the waters of Frenchman Bay for centuries. Five thousand years ago, indigenous people may have paddled dugout canoes into the bay to reach fishing grounds or hunt sea mammals and swordfish. More recently, Wabanaki I…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGV6_portland-civil-war-monument_Portland-ME.html
More than four thousand menwere enrolled from Portlandin the army and navy for theWar of the RebellionMore than three hundred were killed in battle ordied in service.Honor and grateful remembranceto the dead, equal honor to thosewho, daring to die…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGV5_wadsworth-longfellow-house_Portland-ME.html
Has been designated a Registered National Historic LandmarkUnder the provisions of theHistoric Sites Act of August 21, 1935This site possesses exceptional valuein commemorating and illustratingthe history of the United StatesU. S. Department of th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGV4_ccc-headquarters_Cape-Elizabeth-ME.html
One of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal programs, the Civilian Conservation Corps hired unemployed young men during the Great Depression. The CCC provided training to men between the ages of 18 and 25 for work on conservation projects includin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGV3_a-town-within-a-town_Cape-Elizabeth-ME.html
The primary purpose of Fort Williams may have been for coastal defense, yet many men, women, and children also called it home. This self-sustaining community featured many of the buildings and services typical of an American town of the time inclu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGUZ_fort-williams_Cape-Elizabeth-ME.html
From the 1750s, Portland Harbor was of economic importance as the closest American harbor to Europe and of strategic importance as a protected anchorage for the navy. As part of an upgrading of the harbor defenses in 1873, construction began on a …