Markers, Monuments, and Memorials of Mount Desert Island
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 3 January 2009)


Welcome to the Markers, Monuments, and Memorials of Mount Desert Island home page, part of the Mount Desert Island Cultural History Project.

Purpose of this web page: The purpose of this web page is to present information about Mount Desert Island's markers, monuments, and memorials in an accessible way. These objects usually honor a person or persons (sometimes unnamed), but one marks a site of a former building (first townhouse in Eden). Links to images of the island's monuments, markers, and memorials are provided below.

How to contribute: All information (including images) should be e-mailed to info@vfthomas.com or sent by traditional mail to MDI Markers, Monuments and Memorials, c/o V. F. Thomas Co.; P. O. Box 400; Southwest Harbor, ME 04679.





Bar Harbor

Bar Harbor Armed Forces - at Rodman/Dahlgren cannon near town pier end of Shore Path (cannon with plaque between them; close-up of plaque)
Bar Harbor Armed Forces - Bar Harbor Village Green (bench and monument with plaque; close-up of plaque; inscription on end of bench)
Bar Harbor Veterans of Foreign Wars - Cottage Street (flagpole with rock and plaque; close-up of plaque)
Barker, Jean T. - Barker Park, next to Bar Harbor post office (park and rock with plaque; plaque)
Bates, Waldron - Gorham Mountain trail, just before intersection with south end of Cadillac Cliffs path (ledge with plaque; close-up of plaque)
Bowdoin, Edith G. - near intersection of Route 3 and Schooner Head Road (planter with plaque; close-up of plaque)
Bridgham, Fanny Schermerhorn - north end of Lake Wood (stone)
Civil War soldiers - Mount Desert Street cemetery (Civil War monument; back of monument)
Davis, Betty - Blagden Preserve (bench with plaque; plaque)
Davis, Richard Slaton - College of the Atlantic campus (bench; close-up of bench)
Diederich, Kurt - near base of Kurt Diederich's Climb (close-up of step)
Dorr, George Bucknam - Sieur de Monts (monument with plaque; close-up of plaque)
Eaux Douces - in woods near Sieur de Monts (rock; close-up of rock)
Engel, Fritz F. and Gertrude von Bentheim - Otter Cliffs (cliff with plaque; close-up of plaque)
Fabbri, Alessandro - Fabbri Memorial, Otter Point (stone with plaque; close-up of plaque)
Garber, Mike and Nettie - College of the Atlantic campus (bench; close-up of bench)
Fox, DeGrasse - intersection of Eagle Lake Road and Route 3 (stone with plaque; close-up of plaque)
Francklyn, Lillian Endicott - Gorge Trail
Hamblen, Eth and Stan - Blagden Preserve (rock with plaque; plaque)
How, Charles T. - Fawn Pond
How, Charles T. - Woodbury Park (monument in Woodbury Park; close-up of monument; hallmark on side of bronze)
Jesup, Morris K. and Maria DeWitt - beside trail at north end of the Tarn (close-up of plaque)
Kane, Annie Cottenet - north end of Lake Wood (stone)
Kane, John Innes - west side of Tarn trail (stone with plaque; close-up of plaque)
Kent, Atwater - west side of Schooner Head Road (stone with plaque; close-up of plaque)
Lincoln, Abraham - on oak tree across from parking lot for Blagden Preserve; UTM: 19T - 0550604 x 4914572 (oak trees, plaque on left tree; close-up of plaque)
Mather, Stephen Tyng - near summit of Cadillac Mountain (ledge with plaque; close-up of plaque)
McKinney, David Phillips - Great Head
Morrell, Edward - in park along east side of Route 3, near Jackson Lab (stone with plaque; close-up of plaque)
Newlin, E. Mortimer - College of the Atlantic Campus (rock; close-up of rock)
Roberts, John Whittington - Bar Harbor Village Green (bench; close-up of lettering)
Rockefeller, John D. Jr. - Otter Cliffs (ledge with plaque; close-up of plaque)
Rose, Doug - College of the Atlantic campus (bench; close-up of bench)
Satterlee, Louisa P. - near top of stairs at Sand Beach (stone with plaque; close-up of plaque)
Schieffelin, William Jay Jr. and Annette - garden at La Rochelle, home of Maine Seacoast Missionary Society (garden with plaque; close-up of plaque)
seafarers - Maine Sea Coast Missionary Society grounds, 127 West Street (facing the building from West Street, the stone [with plaque], flag pole, and anchor are on the lawn to your right) (flags, anchor, and stone with plaque; anchor and stone with plaque; close-up of plaque)
town house, site of first built in Eden - near Salisbury Cove cemetery (rock with plaque; close-up of plaque)
Wood, Donald A. - bandstand on Bar Harbor Village Green (bandstand; rock with plaque; plaque)
Young, Andrew Murray - east branch of Canon Brook


Mount Desert

Allen, Albert and Mimi - Seal Harbor Village Green (bench with plaque; close-up of plaque)
Allen, Joseph - beside Jordan Pond Trail just north of intersection with Jordan Pond Carry Trail (rock with plaque; close-up of plaque)
Champlain, Samuel de - north of Route 3, between Seal Harbor and Otter Creek; UTM: 19T - 0561634 x 4905455 (monument; plaque on side facing Route 3 and ocean; upper plaque on reverse side of monument; lower plaque on reverse side of monument)
Chase, Joseph P. Jr. - Northeast Harbor Veterans Memorial Park (Northeast Harbor honor roll)
Chilles, George M. - Northeast Harbor Veterans Memorial Park (Northeast Harbor honor roll)
Clement, John - Seal Harbor (monument with plaque; close-up of plaque)
Cooksey, George Borwick - Cooksey Drive, Seal Harbor (ledge with plaque; close-up of plaque)
Curtis, Joseph Henry - Asticou Terrace path; UTM: 19T - 0557498 x 4905428 (full monument; closer view of monument)
Cushing, Sarah Eliza Sigourney (wife of Edward Tuckerman) - bench at southeast edge of Jordan Pond (bench with plaque; close-up of plaque)
Eliot, Charles William - Eliot Mountain ridge trail, 1/4 mile north of Thuya Garden (ledge with plaque; close-up of plaque)
Graves, Donald F. - Northeast Harbor Veterans Memorial Park (Northeast Harbor honor roll)
Grindle, Kenneth F. - Northeast Harbor Veterans Memorial Park (Northeast Harbor honor roll)
Kelley, Francis G. - Northeast Harbor Veterans Memorial Park (Northeast Harbor honor roll)
Lurvey, Lester - Northeast Harbor Armed Forces monument across from Northeast Harbor library (Northeast Harbor Armed Forces monument; Lester Lurvey plaque); Northeast Harbor Veterans Memorial Park (Northeast Harbor honor roll)
Moore, Ralph - Northeast Harbor Armed Forces monument across from Northeast Harbor library (Northeast Harbor Armed Forces monument; Ralph Moore plaque)
Musetti, Joseph T. Jr. - Northeast Harbor Veterans Memorial Park (Northeast Harbor honor roll; U.S. Navy River Patrol Boat plaque)
Northeast Harbor Armed Forces - across from Northeast Harbor library (monument with plaques)
Northeast Harbor Veterans - park near boat dock; UTM: 19T - 0557006 x 4904752 (Veterans Park monument)
Parker, Robert H. - Northeast Harbor Veterans Memorial Park (Northeast Harbor honor roll)
Pine, John Buckley - north end of Bar Island in Somes Sound
Pryor, James Williamson - north end of Bar Island in Somes Sound
Reynolds, Ralph - Northeast Harbor Armed Forces monument across from Northeast Harbor library (Northeast Harbor Armed Forces monument; Ralph Reynolds plaque); Northeast Harbor Veterans Memorial Park (Northeast Harbor honor roll)
Sargeant, Samuel Duncan - Sargeant Drive (ledge with plaque; close-up of plaque)
Savage, Charles Kenneth - Thuya Garden
Smallidge, Mazie E. - flag pole and flag in front of Pretty Marsh schoolhouse (Pretty Marsh schoolhouse and plaque (far left); close-up of plaque)
Smith, Cornelius (husb. of Mary Wheeler) - granite cliff on Somes Sound
Smith, Julian G. - Northeast Harbor Veterans Memorial Park (Northeast Harbor honor roll)
Van Santvoord, [...] - east peak of Triad
Wheeler, Mary (wife of Cornelius Smith) - granite cliff on Somes Sound
Wright, Leslie D. - Seal Harbor (stone with plaque; close-up of plaque); Northeast Harbor Veterans Memorial Park (Northeast Harbor honor roll)


Southwest Harbor

Hamblen, Walter - near Harbor House (bell; close-up of bell; plate)
Hudson, Joan - on side of Harbor House (plaque)
lost at sea - next to Harbor Master's office in Manset (monument; close-up of plaque)
Norwood, Eugene M. - "square" at intersection of Route 102 and Seal Cove Road (sign marking "square")
Smith, Bev - garden beside Harbor House (plaque)
Spiker, Larue - near Harbor House (bench with plaque; close-up of plaque)


Tremont

Ashley, Fred - [in front of Tremont Community Center]
Carter, Roy - [in front of Tremont Community Center]
Galley, Clarence - [in front of Tremont Community Center]
Jewett, Melvin "Bud" - Tremont fire station (Tremont fire station; fire station sign and plaque; plaque)
Jordan, H. Oliver - Tremont fire station (Tremont fire station; fire station sign and plaque; plaque)
Reed, Herbert - [in front of Tremont Community Center]
Reed, W. Stanley - beside Route 102A in Bass Harbor (park; close-up of plaque)
Sawyer, George - [in front of Tremont Community Center]
Sea Memorial - near Bernard dock (Tremont Sea Memorial monument; close-up of plaque)
Swaszey, Joseph - [in front of Tremont Community Center]