Bar Harbor, Maine "Bar Harbor"
Bar Harbor .
Bar Harbor, Maine Main Street in Bar Harbor (2008) Main Street in Bar Harbor (2008) Official seal of Bar Harbor, Maine Bar Harbor, Maine is positioned in Maine Bar Harbor, Maine - Bar Harbor, Maine Location inside the state of Maine Bar Harbor waterfront, there is the four-masted schooner, the Margaret Todd, with a cruise ship docked (to the right) Bar Harbor is a town on Mount Desert Island in Hancock County, Maine, United States.
Bar Harbor is a prominent tourist destination in the Down East region of Maine and home to the College of the Atlantic, Jackson Laboratory, and MDI Biological Laboratory (Salisbury Cove village).
Bar Harbor is home to the biggest parts of Acadia National Park, including Cadillac Mountain, the highest point inside twenty-five miles (40 km) of the coastline of the Eastern United States. The town is served by the Hancock County-Bar Harbor Airport, which has flights on Cape Air and Pen - Air to Boston, as well as cyclic flights to Newark and Portland, ME on Elite Airways.
1.1 Mount Desert Island Fire The town of Bar Harbor was established on the northeast shore of Mount Desert Island, which the Wabanaki Indians knew as Pemetic, meaning "range of mountain peaks" or "mountains seen at a distance." They spoke of Bar Harbor as Man-es-ayd'ik ("clam-gathering place") or Ah-bays'auk ("clambake place"), leaving great piles of shells as evidence of this abundance.
Champlain titled the island Isles des Monts Deserts, meaning "island of barren mountain peaks" now called Mount Desert Island, the biggest in Maine. With the best soil on Mount Desert Island, it also advanced agriculture.
On March 3, 1918, Eden was retitled Bar Harbor, after the sand and gravel bar, visible at low tide, which leads athwart to Bar Island and forms the rear of the harbor.
Bar Harbor was also used for naval practices amid World War II.
Many influential citizens call(ed) Bar Harbor home for at least part of the year.
Morgan owned a home that is adjoining to Bar Harbor.
Cornelius Vanderbilt assembled cottages in Bar Harbor.
The Astor family owned hotels and cottages in Bar Harbor and the encircling areas.
William Howard Taft used to appreciate games of golf in Bar Harbor.
The co-founder and CEO of Burt's Bees, Roxanne Quimby, has a home near Bar Harbor and is seen incessanting the downtown area.
The star and creator of the TV show Martha Stewart has also been known to incessant Mount Desert Island and been seen in Bar Harbor.
Film star John Travolta has a home in close-by Isleboro and has been seen many times in Bar Harbor.
Savage started out on Mount Desert Island, moved, and then returned to design homes for many wealthy citizens in Bar Harbor. Mount Desert Island Fire Sparks at a cranberry bog near Town Hill ignited a wildfire that would intensify over ten days, and not be declared out until mid-November; this was one of a several wildfires in the state that year.
Nearly half the easterly side of Mount Desert Island burned, including 67 palatial summer homes on Millionaires' Row.
Fortunately, the town's company precinct was spared, including Mount Desert Street, where a several former summer homes inside a historic precinct listed on the National Register of Historic Places operate as inns.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 63.11 square miles (163.45 km2), of which 42.24 square miles (109.40 km2) is territory and 20.87 square miles (54.05 km2) is water. Bar Harbor is situated on Frenchman Bay.
Frenchman Bay and islands and the region around the town of Bar Harbor viewed from Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Bar Harbor has a humid continental climate, abbreviated "Dfb" on climate maps. Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island are positioned near the coastline and surrounded by the North American continent to the northeast and southwest.
This location, combined with prevailing winds that are not from the Atlantic, gives Bar Harbor a continental climate with very cold winters for an island locale at such a low latitude.
Climate data for Bar Harbor, Maine See also: Bar Harbor (CDP), Maine There were 3,495 housing units at an average density of 82.7 per square mile (31.9/km2).
There were 2,427 homeholds of which 22.0% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 42.8% were married couples living together, 6.8% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 3.0% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 47.5% were non-families.
The median age in the town was 45.3 years.
17.3% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 10% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 22.4% were from 25 to 44; 32.3% were from 45 to 64; and 18.1% were 65 years of age or older.
There were 2,142 homeholds out of which 24.5% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 44.5% were married couples living together, 6.4% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 45.7% were non-families.
In and near the town, the populace was spread out with 19.8% under the age of 18, 9.0% from 18 to 24, 28.6% from 25 to 44, 26.6% from 45 to 64, and 16.1% who were 65 years of age or older.
About 4.9% of families and 8.9% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 6.7% of those under age 18 and 8.3% of those age 65 or over.
Conners Emerson School is positioned in Bar Harbor.
Mount Desert Island High School (MDIHS) serves the four suburbs of the Island, plus the outlying islands of Swan's Island and the town of Cranberry Isles.
The College of the Atlantic is positioned in Bar Harbor.
The Abbe Museum, a Smithsonian Institution partner exhibition, is positioned in downtown Bar Harbor.
American Civil War monument in Bar Harbor recalls "the sons of Eden who were defenders of the Union".
Eden is the former name of Bar Harbor.
Recreational activities abound in Bar Harbor.
The downtown is especially alive in the summer and autumn months because Bar Harbor is home to many outside enthusiasts.
Those interested in the marine life encircling Mount Desert Island can go to the marina at the end of Main Street.
At low tide a sand bar from town to Bar Island is exposed and wide enough to drive a car across.
Bar Harbor is a destination for tourists from all over the world.
Cruise ships are in the harbor from May through October (most often in September), with 23 ships expected to make 135 visits in 2013. Bar Harbor also hosts many long-distance cyclists, as it is the easterly end of the Adventure Cycling Association's Northern Tier Bicycle Route (which ends in Anacortes, Washington), and the northern end of its Atlantic Coast Bicycle Route (which ends in Key West, Florida).
The Far Harbor add-on for the 2015 video game Fallout 4 is positioned on Mount Desert Island, with Bar Harbor being in a locale on the island congruent with the chief settlement in the game. Edgar, Secretary of State of Maine and Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives For a freely accessible digital text on Wabanaki culture and history, see Asticou's Island Domain: Wabanaki Peoples at Mount Desert Island 1500-2000 Archived August 29, 2008, at the Wayback Machine., by Harald E.
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Municipalities and communities of Hancock County, Maine, United States
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