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6 unusual facts about Mount Desert Island


Edward Salisbury Dana

Until very recently he was physically vigorous and delighted in long walks and climbs both about New Haven and among the hills of Mount Desert Island where he had his summer home.

Green Mountain Cog Railway

The Green Mountain Cog Railway was a narrow gauge mountain railway built to carry tourists to the top of Green Mountain (now known as Cadillac Mountain) on Mount Desert Island in Maine.

Jane Weinberger

The publishing house was named for the Weinberger family home located in Somesville, Maine on Mount Desert Island.

Maine State Route 102

State Route 102A is a 6.8-mile loop of Route 102 on the southeastern tip of Mount Desert Island.

Maine State Route 3

State Route 3 is part of Maine's system of numbered state highways, running from Route 8, 11 and 27 in Augusta to an intersection with Route 102 in the village of Somesville in the town of Mount Desert, on Mount Desert Island.

Reef Point Estate

Reef Point Estate is located in Bar Harbor, Maine, USA, on Mount Desert Island.


College of the Atlantic

College of the Atlantic, founded in 1969, is a private, alternative liberal-arts college located in Bar Harbor on Mount Desert Island, Maine, United States.

John Wilmerding

The collection included works by such well-known artists as Martin Johnson Heade, Fitz Henry Lane, John F. Peto, Joseph Decker, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Frederic Edwin Church, George Caleb Bingham, and John F. Kensett, as well as works by various artists who visited Maine's Mount Desert Island.

Minturn, Maine

Swan's Island is accessible by the State of Maine ferry service from Bass Harbor, on Mount Desert Island, home to Acadia National Park.


see also

Charles Tersolo

Subject matter covered by this artist includes Provincetown, Boston, Paris, the Grand Canyon, Santa Fe, Monument Valley, Valley of the Gods, New York City, San Francisco, Portland, Cape Elizabeth, and Mount Desert Island, Maine, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire.