1951-52 1953-54 1955-56 Days retire ment (4/29/53) Dornestate (9/18/54) If Wirth lettento Jr. 1 blaim that HCTPR -WWith letter (1/30/54) (2/4/55)re interpretalia neld have gone ut of discussing patronale for in N.P. + A.NP. O if form piness (1/10) since purpose interpretative Tilden. JDR7r. serv cells as- 6130 THE incl. H. interest controb. in it in A extant to E Smiths 1/10) ie "Father of Acadia plm for ANP. includ The Borr sito. Empt. TPR mission and loss -Mrs Sepra is littent purpose function. J1, re deploring Oilform - Interp plan ('st) for ANP- Old farm dego eleven page response condition (7/17/54) -Jr. to with (5/2/55) 27) to Charl ElistII - - In to with (2/17/54) an on old form plans. underves of AND" history of Old Form is Impt UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ACADIA NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT August 17, 1951 Memorandim To: The Director From: Superintendent, Acadia National Park Subject: Burial Place of George B. Dorr Mr. Nowack passed me the attached Office Memorandum asking about the burial place of George B. Dorr and suggested that I answer it. Following out Mr. Dorr's instructions prior to his death his body was oremated and his ashes scattered near Beaver Dam Pool at the northwestern foot of Champlain Mountain. B. L. Hadley Superintendent Attachment illan On Friday September 29,1989 I 1 moved the following items from Storm Beach Cottage to Hulls Car Teiter Center for storage in the George Dorr chills watnut oual backs with arm back - Walnutarmetair with dog (lion?) head handles - 3 oriental rugs from the down stairs room with the firepare -one wood ractic painted brown ,no govt.mark but TPR co./167.2 marked an seat base All other items nicted as being at Storm Beachin Apr I 1988 were found ) except the rug described as a runner in an upstairs bodroom , pasiolyno. 4 78 or 479. , As someone was sleeping and I missed seeing the mg the first time I awoke him, I hesitaid to re check. It could bc that the mg was there Deb wade 10/3/89 anPa.6.7.1616 servations for the enjoyment of all the people. Acadia National The Federal Bureau known as the National Park Service was not established until 1916. In that Park Founded year George B Dorn who also fig- ured prommently M founding the Trustees of Public Reservations, Forty Years Ago and who became the first Super intendent of Acadia National Park, conceived the idea of donat. Although Mount Desert Island ing the Reservation's holdings to was first discovered by Samuel de the Federal overamen ad Champlain in 1604 it was not un- ministration the National Park til the middle of the 19th century Service On 1916 ears that the area be ame well known. The are claimed for France discovery by Champhan who was exploring 919 for Sieur de Monts to whom pro Nat file prietal rights had been granted onal Park of in the New World by the French the park was Pasam om King, Henry IV. When France Lafayette take na was defeated by the English - in Park 1715 ME Desert Island was coded Acadiati National to Deplands Following the fall of illustrates the adag Quebee in 1759 the English rights were feded to the Massachusetts Bay Colonists and the General has Court of Massachusetts then ad- National Park which is ministered the area. The first settlers fishermen andiafarmers, arrived during the early 1760's, people first coming to the Cranberry National Park today en- Isles. and soon after to what is compasses m unusual combina. now Somesville range Because of the scenic splendor than 20 glacier-sculptur and cool summer climate Mount founded gum- Desert Island became the favorite Averlook the surrounding retreat of summer residents as ocean. islands and main- early as 1855 The fame. of the Jand> lakes below steep Island as a delightful summer re- moint unhides rugged coastline sort spread in the ensuing years, with headlands rising abruptly and by the turn of the century, from the edge of the seal and development of N the summer beathes To stone or sandy shell colonies reached a peak fragmen nestled between the In the summer of 1901, Charles kclif W. Eliot, who had been for 20 years a summer resident of Nor theast Harbor suggested to some of his friends that they might form an organization to conserve and maintain the unique natural Identical to the directives contain- beauties of Mount Desert Island ed in the National Park Service because they were rapidly being Act of Aur 25, 1916, which destroyed by logging and other established th National Park Ser- incompatible developments It was vice. conserve the scenery from that idea that Dr. Eliot and and the and historic ob others who appreciated the beauty jects and the wildlife therem and of Mount Desert Island came to form the Hancuck County Trustees to provide the enjoyment of of Public Reservations The or the man manner and by ganization was formed in 1901 such mean III leave them un4 but it was not until 1903 that the impaired the enjoyment of Maine legislature passed the spec- future generations ral act for "sociable charitable, On the 40th anniversary of and benevolent purposes. includ Acadia National Park the Nation. ing the purpose of acquiring own- al Park Service carries on the imp and holding lands and other ideals, policies and objectives of property in said Hancock County the original founders of the Han for free public use, and improving cock County Trustees of Public the same by laying out and Build- Reservations, who, as early as ing roads and paths and making 1900 saw the need to preserve un- other improvements thereon./ impaired some of the scenic Between 1901 and 1916 many beauty of this area. parcels of seenic land were acquir- ed by the Trustees of Public Re- servations for the enjoyment of all the people. The Federal Bureau known as 1 the National Park Service was not established until 1916. In that VOON