Excerpt from Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine The intimate local history of but two of the settlements on Mount Desert Island is herein given; that of Somesville and Southwest Harbor - the two oldest of them all. Dr. George E. Street in his excellent History of Mount Desert Island, gives much of the local history and genealogy of Bar Harbor, Hull's Cove and vicinity; the Women's Club of Northeast Harbor is collecting material for a history of their village, and a history of Tremont is being written by a former resident of that town. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.