Schooner Head Cemetery
 Bar Harbor, Hancock County, Maine
part of the Mount Desert Island Cultural History Project
of
V. F. Thomas Co. - P. O. Box 400 - Southwest Harbor, ME 04679
info@vfthomas.com - 207-266-5748

(updated 21 August 2011)




Location. Schooner Head.

Directions. From the intersection of Routes 3 and 102/198 at the north end of Mount Desert Island (just after you cross the bridge from Thompson Island), bear left on Route 3. Travel approximately 10.1 miles to a stop sign. Turn left onto Mount Desert Street (Route 3) and continue 0.4–0.5 miles to another stop sign. Turn right at this stop sign, following Route 3. In about 1.1–1.2 miles, bear left onto Schooner Head Road. Travel on Schooner Head Road 2.4–2.5 miles to a stop sign, and turn left. This leads to Schooner Head overlook. The cemetery can be seen with binoculars from this overlook. Facing the water, look to your left. The cemetery is toward the right portion of the cove formed by Schooner Head.

History. A deed (Hancock County Registry of Deeds book 1433, pages 400ff.) from John S. Baer and Helen Sue Baer to D. M. Burt and M. T. Webster reserves for the Baers "and their descendants, a right of way for passage by foot only from the Schooner Head Road to the cemetery". The deed also states that Burt and Webster and "their heirs and assigns ... will not allow the cemetery to be used for any purpose other than as a burial ground" for the Baers and their descendants.

Notes. This cemetery is enclosed by a chain suspended between iron posts. Remains of an earlier iron fence are laying on the ground at the edge of the cemetery.

Date of most recent visit. 21 October 1999

Names and dates on gravestones and other markers. (complete as of 21 October 1999)
ALBY
   John - [no dates]; (member of Co. E, 28th Maine Regiment [Civil War])
BAER
   Juanita B. [wife of Roy S.] - b. 1886; d. 1977
   Roy S. [husb. of Juanita B.] - b. 1882; d. 1973
CLARK
   Mosses [sic] S. - d. 2 September 1850 Æ 40 y., 29 d.
LYNAM
   Hannah (wife of William) - d. 20 February 1851 Æ [...]1
   William (husb. of Hannah) - b. 9 July 1795, Eden; d. 14 April 1857 Æ 61 y., 9 m., 5 d.
VAUGHAN
   Harry [husb. of Helen J.] - b. 1899; d. 1978
   Helen J. [wife of Harry] - b. 1903; d. 1983
[...]
   [...]2
   [...]3

Notes:
   1Remainder of stone is in concrete, thereby obscuring any further information it may contain.
   2Stone broken just above ground surface.
   3Stone blank.



Images and information (including corrections) should be e-mailed to info@vfthomas.com or sent by traditional mail to Bar Harbor Cemeteries, c/o V. F. Thomas Co.; P. O. Box 400; Southwest Harbor, ME 04679.