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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20GG_drink-in-the-view_Mount-Desert-ME.html
"What wondrous stories a water molecule could tell, of wild peaks visited on stormy nights, of quiet rivulets and raging rivers . . . peaceful fogs . . . glaciers . . . "David Cavagnaro, Living WaterJordan Pond's clear waters nourish an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20FD_cobbling-the-cove_Mount-Desert-ME.html
Ancient ice and powerful waves worked for eons to round the cobbles that grace Acadia's beaches. Glaciers carried many of them great distances to this spot. Now the sea endlessly tumbles them with local rock creating an ever-changing mosaic of col…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20FB_once-a-busy-waterfront_Mount-Desert-ME.html
Since the early 1800s, Otter Creek has been the site of a fishing village with wharfs and fish houses on the waterfront and homes on the hills. Residents caught fish, dried them on racks along the cove, and shipped them to Boston and other cities.…
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/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/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/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…