Siever de Monts Spring OF I SIEVR DE MONTS Bar Harbor SPRING 12 SIEVR DE MONTS SPRING Sieur De SWEET WATERS OF ACÁDIA Monts Spring The Great Meadow and The Tarn The Great Meadow and the Tarn Kebo Mt. - Motor Road Controversy The Sleur de Monts Spring segment of the Park Loop was the most controversial road built in Acadia. The debate began in The Gorge 1929, when the two men most responsible for constructing The Tarn The Great Acadia's motor and carriage roads failed to agree on a route Meadow connecting the Kebo Mountain section with Ocean Drive. Park Superintendent George Dorr favored running the StRes road to the north of the Sieur de Monts Spring area and Park Hdqr. then along the east side of The Tam. John D. Strawberry HIII Rockefeller, Jr., who had financed much of the park's Huguenot carriage and motor road construction, wanted it to pass south of the spring along the foot of what was then called 10 Dry Mountain and continue down the west side of The Tarn. Hallway Mt Champlain View of Spring House To settle this dispute, Rockefeller hired landscape architect Mt. Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. and access to Trails Although Olmsted favored Dorr's route, as news of this proposal became public in 1931 the citizens of Mount Desert Island got To Seal Harbor Kurt Dietrich Tr. involved. Believing that the road would spoil the wilderness Gorge Road. St rt 3 Ladder Kane Tr. quality of the area south of The Tarn, some collagers protested 100 90 80 Legend its construction. Others, fearing that such protests would cause Rockefeller Road Rockefeller to rescind his offer to build other motor roads, 5000 Dorr Road publicly encouraged him by voting to relinquish municipal control 500 1000 Loop -Motor Road 1500 of a portion of the old Ocean Drive so that he could proceed with Development Plan St. Co. Road plans to reconstruct that road for the park. The combined effect Meters 1927, early 1930s Contour Interval - 100feet of these community pressures encouraged Adapted from Master Plan -No. NPACA 1109-6 (1 of 2) both Dorr and Rockefeller to swing the route away from The Tarn and towards Emery Schiff Tr. Ocean Drive. This road was finally Spring House completed in 1938. The Hemlock Road Picnic Area Auto Parking 65 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR - NATIONAL PARK SERVICE SIEUR DE MONTS SPRING AREA PART OF THE MASTER PLAN ACADIA NATIONAL PARK Wild Gardens of Acadia Proposed Park Entry 50 100 200 North Adapted from Master Plan ( George Dorr's) -No. NPACA 1109-9 (6-2-38) Maters View of Great Meadow and The Gorge - Ledgelawn Ave. Timothy Davis; T.A.Groteau. America's NATIONAL PARK ROADS 33 and Parkways. 2004. ANP #533 Mr.Dorr at Spring Bcx 74, 50. 14 DSC 8624A Tt n Hina 285 BOR LIMES SEPTEMBER 18, 1915 THREE CENTS A COPY NUMBER 63 3 EGE SIEUR DE MONTS CARE legation To ans SPRING ATTRACTIVE BHT HARBOR lelegation of or sends to d academies Three Buildings on Pic- ord Believed ke up their turesque Site n. 9-18-1915 Field 201 (iss Mildred y for their WORK NEARS COMPLETION S OF- FIRES y of Maine. senior year Beautifully Laid Out Grounds Open PAGE Incendiary-Citi arles Emery To The Public-What Is To Be Meetings:Or- week for his Seen There COL S e Campaigns other, Earle, C or the first A great addition to the attractives is the new field of Lr. Newell, of Bar Harbor will be made by the grounds óg who is believed sday for his and buildings of the Sieur de Monts fire to houses and did Edward Spring Company in a picturesque spot A of Talesford is c. Johnson at the base of Dry Mountain, lying below of its citizens hn 3 sophomore mountain lands of the Public Reser- A to protect them. ey, who will vations. Three attractive little buildings interests or the 0 the last of -a spring cover house, a bottling house a picture of the bridal couple as they past two weeks mysterious fires which g has entered and a reception room with a photographic came from the church, and in his zeal bore the marks of the incendiary, have LW School. exhibit of the surrounding landscape for performing the mission stepped off been breaking out at Islesford and on I Richardson are now well along in the course of con- the ground on which he had authority. Wednesday evening about 7 o'clock the Univer- struction, the latter two rapidly nearing Testimony was to the effect that Mr, the Bogg's cottage at Dodge's Point. they are a completion. The grounds are carefully Suminsby attacked Mr. Rodick and Seal Harbor was found to be in flames ely laid out and graded with a careful eye seized him by the neck. Judge Benson from causes unknown but suspiciously I a graduate to preserving the remarkable purity in reviewing the case stated that Mr. like those of the Islesford fires leave about of the water of the spring through Rodick and the other representative of The house had been occupied this his second careful drainage of all surface waters the press were within their legal rights season by Mrs. L R. Boggs of Harris School and to enhancing the natural beauty of in taking a picture from off the church burg, Pa., and a relative, former Congress ft last Tues- the spot. All the lands owned by the property No courtsel appeared for the man Samuel F Barr, who had closed inal year at spring company, including the whole state. the cottage and left to go to the Inn chool. Her meadow through which the brook from about 4 o' clock This fire was apparently een home for the spring flows, with the woods upon it, at the Swim- are to be placed under the control of RUNAWAY AND SMASHUP set just after the cottage had been vacated as was the case in most of the this Saturday the Sieur de Monts Arboretum and Wild other fires Y. M. C. A. Gardens Corporation to assure the per- Ellsworth Falls People Badly Hurt In Accident On Thursday As a result of the fire, influential S. manent preservation of its natural charm vill return to and freedom to the public. The water of people of the town and insurance men or her sopho- the spring will be made free perpetually bad accident occurred on Hancock met Thursday morning to make plans street late Thursday when the colt fo their protection just HY did the people e. to all who come to it. The incorporators ave the first driven by Mrs. Ellen Emerton and J. F of Islesford last Sunday when they turned of the spring company are George B. year at Dart- Dorr, president; A. Stroud Rodick, Archibold of Ellsworth Falls took fright their Sunday morning church service and bolted, throwing the occupants into a miss meeting and planned a treasurer; A. H. Lynam, clerk; E. G. ho has been Fabbri and Dr. Robert Abbe out of the carriage and badly shaking campaign of action which, of course L4 ity of Maine them up, if not inflicting internal kept a secret The entrance to the spring is from in- ill leave next the Otter Creek road, the drive continu- juries on them. They were taken at Belief is current in both the infested Deasy for ing past the spring through a beautiful once to the hospital. Mrs. Emerto and places that the tires are all incenduary Miss Deasy wood and coming out on the Harden Mr. Archibold, the hired man n the and that the culprit is either some ill Farm road east of Mt. Kebo spring Emerton place, have been beddling disponed person or more likely 14 maniac expecting to As one approaches along the wooded en- farm and dairy products in Bar Harbor At Islesford, which is on Little Cran ol of Domestic trance drive and sees the trees opening for a long time They have generally berry Island, only a short distance from nd her sisters, out and the beautiful spring cover house driven a span, but for the last few times Seal Harbor, vigilance akin to martial rgaret, expect rising against the woods ahead, one is have driven a colt. The colt became law prevails Fire Warden Alenzo 1 at Boston to impressed with the wonderful. layout frightened when children followed the J Bryant has organized the citizens rk. of the grounds which will be extremely cart asking for apples and cutting up in into regular watches and at no time who graduated attractive when work on them is com- the road during the night and day is the island e high school plete and they are sown with grass By The wagon was upset and almost com- allowed to remain unguarded The week to begin the side of the cover house is a big boulder pletely demolished when the colt bolted members of the summer colony ions College bearing the inscription-Sieur de Monts Mrs. Emerton was very badly bruised number of whom are still occupying ave Sept. 25 Spring and shaken up and had to be carried to their summer homes, have offered their the Harvard On the right of the drive, opposite, the hospital. Mr. Archibold, who was services and practically every man on are the bottling house and the little not badly hurt. was able to walk in the island, including members of the gone to Phillips reception room building Between, is An examination revealed no broken United States Life Saving crew on the sh his prepara- a deep, rock-enclosed pool about which bones, but the patients were so bruised outermost point of the island, are two years at will be planted ferns, irises and other and lame that, as was stated on Friday. participating in the effort to prevent will enter Yale native greenery Close beside the pool it was impossible to learn as yet whether further destruction of property and academy. His will be set a tablet bea fing an old French or not they had sustained internal run down the culprit who has 4 dis ompanied him description of the region's drinking injuries turbed the peace and calm of the r which he goes waters-Eaux Douces de l'Acadie, with dinarily quiet resort Day and night or his freshman its English translati below, Sweet DR. TAYL OR TO ADDRESS WOMEN the wheres are being patrolled Waters of Acadia-while stepping stones sons whose business on the island es a week from will lead out into the center of the pool What Influences Are the Women of not readily known are being watched of Exerting on with suspicion and although none of laid out and graded with a careful eye seized him by the neck. Judge Benson from causes unknown DUE date to preserving the remarkable purity in reviewing the case stated that Mr like three of the Talesford firea about of the water of the spring through Rodick and the other representative of The house had been occupied this second careful drainage of all surface waters the press were within their legal rights season by Mrs. L R Bogg" of Harrie ol. and to enhancing the natural beauty of in taking a picture from off the church burg, Pa., and a relative, former Congress iasi Tues- the spot. All the lands owned by the Samuel F Barr. who had closed ual year at spring company, including the whole state. the cottage and left to go to the Inn chool. Her meadow through which the brook from about 4 o'clock. This fire was apparently been home for the spring flows, with the woods upon it, et just after the cottage had been ed at the Swim- are to be placed under the control of RUNAWAY AN' rated as was the case in most of the e this Saturday the Sieur de Monts Arboretum and Wild fires. e Y. M. C. A. Gardens Corporation to assure the per- Ellsworth Fall lass. manent preservation of its natural charm In Acci result of the fire, influéntial will return to and freedom to the public. The water of /A bad SHEIR 5e town and insurance men 9 morning to make plans for her sopho- the spring will be made free perpetually to all who come to it. The incorporators street n just as did the people lege. leave the first of the spring company are George B. dri tay when they turned church service year at Dart- Dorr, president; A. Stroud Rodick, Arch and be and planned a treasurer; A. H. Lynam, clerk; E. G. of course is who has been Fabbri and Dr. Robert Abbe. out of the rsity of Maine The entrance to the spring is from them up, it infested will leave next the Otter Creek road, the drive continu- juries on them. Louise Deasy for once to the hospit. diary ing past. the spring through a beautiful re Miss Deasy wood and coming out on the Harden Mr. Archibold, the nine ill Emerton. place, have a maniar Farm ro east of Mt. Kebo spring is expecting to approaches along the wooded en- farm and dairy products Little Cran- 1001 of Domestic trance drive and sees the trees opening for a long time. They hav ,rt distance from and her sisters, out and the beautiful spring cover house driven a span, but for the last akin to martial [argaret, expect rising against the woods ahead, one is have driven a colt. The colt L ire Warden Alonzo ol at Boston to impressed with the wonderful layout frightened when children followed organized the citizens work. of the grounds which will be extremely cart asking for apples and cutting up watches and at no time who graduated attractive when work on them is com- the road. night and day is the island he high school plete and they are sown with grass. By The wagon was upset and almost com- al. to remain unguarded The S week to begin the side of the cover house is a big boulder pletely demolished when the colt bolted, mem ery of the summer colony, H mons College. bearing the inscription-Sieur de Monts Mrs. Emerton was very badly bruised number of whom are still occupying leave Sept. 25 and shaken up and had to be carried to their summer homes. have offered their t the Harvard On the right of the drive, opposite, the hospital. Mr. Archibold, who was services and practically every man on are the bottling house and the little not badly hurt, was able to walk in the island, including members of the gone to Phillips reception room building. Between, is An examination revealed no broken United States Life Saving crew on the ish his prepara- a deep, rock-enclosed pool about which bones, but the patients were so bruised outermost point of the island, are two years at will be planted ferns, irises and other and lame that, as was stated on Friday, participating in the effort to prevent will enter Yale native greenery. Close beside the pool it was impossible to learn as yet whether further destruction of property and academy. His will be set a tablet bearing an old French or not they had sustained internal run down the culprit who has so dis- companied him description of the region's drinking injuries turbed the peace and calm of the or- er which he goes waters-Eaux Douces de l'Acadie, with dinarily quiet resort Day and night for his freshman its English translation below, Sweet DR. TAYLOR TO ADDRESS WOMEN the shores are being patrolled. per- Waters of Acadia-while stepping stones sons whose business on the island is ves a week from will lead out into the center of the pool What Influences Are the Women of not readily known are being watched ne special course that anyone passing by may drink of the Bar Harbor Capable of Exerting on with suspicion and although nor.r of he University of waters as they boil freshly up. the Best Welfare of the Community the officials would impart the information An interesting hour may now be spent will be the subject of an address to be it is understood that a detective has tern ) has been em- looking over these buildings and more given by Dr. J. Madison Taylor at the secured to aid in apprehending the House this sea- closely examining the layout of the Y. W. C. A. building next Monday who has plunge the community in str ior year work at grounds. The reception room, which evening at 8:15. All women living in a state of consternation etady, N. Y. is first reached, is the old 16 foot square and associated with the interests of The first fire occurred on the after n of Mr. and Mrs. spring cover house used by John Pres- Bar Harbor are cordially invited to be noon of Sept 2 when the old Said Vednesday night cott when he owned the property present. Dr. Taylor has always had the Beach house on the south side of the e he is a junior It is to be fitted up with a table holding betterment of Bar Harbor at heart island, vacated but two days for etson University the spring book and various reading He is an interesting speaker and he will its owner. Dr. Waiter of His anied him as far matter relating to the spring and to be found none the less so on this occasion cester, Mass , and family. was dis back Sunday. the island, and photographs of the when he will present a matter of impor- covered to be 11 mass of Names and 11 asgatt went to island's scenery exhibited upon the walls tance to all. He is especially anxious was with difficulty that any of the the Tuesday, where The bottling house just beyond- to have a discussion of the subject and furniture WILY removed This house 14 44 ord Academy. John Prescott's also, but remodeled- will be expecting questions. built more than 85 years ago, but has is an interesting little structure in its been extensively remodeled in recent (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) Wedlock is paved with good intentions. years. Several fires caught in the wornts DIRECTOR When the cat is away the night is quiet. (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT BAD SPILL AT OTTER CREEK Livermore Falls physical director A bad automobile spill in which all had a very narrow escape from serious SPRING Search the Whole Cobb is a gradu- of Maine of the injury if not death, occurred at Otter Universe as prominent in Creek on the road to Seal Harbor last ution. He was a You will find nothing to compare for pureness with Monday. W. W. Taylor, archeologist y baseball team, from Phillips Andover Academy, with in the field. He Mrs. Taylor and their son and Mr. and Mount Kebo Spring Water e varsity through- Mrs. F. P. Goodwin of Waukeag and TRADE Maine and during their son were on the island looking for Endorsed by the leading physicians as "pure, palata- erback, a position Indian relics, traveling in Mr. Taylor's ble, and portable in the highest degree." ny papers on the Ford car. They were going down the B also a basketball steep incline when the brakes refused Cobb taught and Mount Kebo Spring Water Co. to work. Mr. Taylor threw in the em- Cents Hill and this ergency brake which snapped under the Telephone 479 playing baseball sudden strain. The car sped down the For sale by. Acker, Merrill & Condit, New York im of the Trolley hill, gathering momentum as it went, to organize gym shot across the little bridge and turned Cobb is a over on the bank when it reached the ent character and turn on the other side. The occupants THE BAR HARBOUR TEA ROOM der which the entire populace has been PAGE ONE) George Leonard of Pretty Marsh is living for the past week or more. age and were put 3 MRS. SYLVIA SEAVEY Last Sunday night a crew of men driving one of the American Express Miss MADELINE MOSLE from the life saving station offered its teams in town. Miss HENRIETTA MOSLE of the following Miss Rosa Bowden of North Sullivan, services and assisted in patrolling the Miss MAE BELLE MOSLI 48 hours after who has been employed in Northeast shores and the same evening the light- West Eden, Me., Sept. 15, 1915 :rooks of Cam- house tender, Zizania, which had ar- during the summer, has gone to Franklin nily, had left for rived that day at Bear Island light- to teach r $20,000 cottage The Northeast fire department went a mass of flames Harbor on Wednesday night to PERCY KEI ed to the ground, e firemen of that place who were DEALER IN trouble at the Boggs' cottage. xt fire shifted to man Smallidge left on Wednesday :h is separated ono to enter the University of Island by a sand FINE GROCE owned by J. H. BHT 9-18-1915 and Mrs. Herbert Goodwin of ort distance west arbor spent the week-end in town guest of relatives. Flour, Provisio 1 by Arnold Weed und during the Janet Tripp has returned from and again the fire PAGE 8 visit with relatives at West Eden Teas, Coffees, Spices, ut total destruc- me her studies in the Gilman Syrups and Molas I left that morn- COL2 chool. Foreign and Domesti outhwest' Harbor Josephine B. Bunker, who has find their home, employed as bookkeeper at the IMPORTED GOODS A SP eir clothing de- last Harbor Laundry during the P. E. Sharpless Philadelphi was built by Mr r, has taken a position as principal Butter and Cheese from Be and up to four e Grammar School in Brewer. ied by him as a unker will teach the 9th grade in 47 Cottage Str store. It is un- that school. SIEUR DE MONTS Telephone 6 no insurance. The Charles Goram of Bangor called upon SPRING ATTRACTIVE mily is a heavy friends here on Sunday. BAR HARBOR. MA these two islands (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) The fall term of Gilman High School ally to a paper present form. An arched doorway on began on Monday. The entering class 0000000000000000000 eir behalf. the right, an arched niche for the over- was one of the largest in the history of flow fountain on the left, with a gallery the school and it looks like a very suc- Bath Room Furnis ht, Saturday, at ipt. Gilbert Had- in the center above upon which an arched cessful year at Gilman. There has been Glass Shelves, Towel ch is situated not doorway and windows open, all combine no change of teachers. William P. Tumbler and Tooth fine summer resi- to give it an attractive appearance with Cushman has begun his second year am O. Sawtelle of unbroken symmetry. Under the gallery as principal and Miss Julia L. Murphy Holders. who, with his will be a large map of Mt. Desert Island serving as assistant teacher. burst into flames in color on cement. The lower floor of The members of the Baptist church Everything in Bath al loss. While an the building is occupied by the bottling will meet at the home of Mr. and 'Mrs. Furnishings de to prevent this and other working rooms. Here an elec- Danforth J. Manchester tonight for e bell in the church tric pump will draw some eight to ten a general conference and business meeting High Class Plumb 1 attention was soon gallons a minute from the spring, the Quite a number of Northeast Harbor lay, barn owned by water being singularly pure and cold- people attended the fair at Cherryfield L. P. CART located about half a the temperature remaining at about this week. 46 Cottage Street se. The flames shot 44 degrees the whole year round. All Philip Bunker of Sutton will resume 0000000000000000000 an effort to put the pipes are cement lined so that no metal his studies in Gilman High School in seless and attention comes in contact with the water. The the near future. quenching smaller pure water only is to be bottled. Occupy- Mrs. Frederick A. Foster was in Ban- C. A. HODGI from the burning ing the front half of the second floor is a gor, on Saturday. rest room attractively burlapped in Mrs. Adelma Joy and Mrs. John y night and since gray for the display of landscape photo- Whitmore recently visited relatives at Contractor and been in the wildest graphs. Mount Desert more fires being The spring cover house is to be octa- Miss May Breen, who has been em- Practical B at any time. gonal in shape, 14 feet across, of cement ployed in town during the summer, the citizens and with red tiled Florentine dome and is left on Tuesday for her home in Everett, Cottage Jobbing of al ere aroused to de- being built by Fred Savage, the architect, Mass. Lumber of all kinds lans were at once after a classical design made by Egisto Mrs. Loren' E. Kimball, assisted by resulted so for in Fahhri, older brother of Ernesto and Mrs. Frederick A. Foster, recently- Office and Mill under cover, fll Alereandro Fabbri, an artist and archi- entertained a party of elderly ladies at d that there will teet whose home is in Florence, Ifaly, Camp Ripple, Long Pond; Mrs. Rut's 42 Greeley Avenue, Ba 2-371 No. 118230 The United States of America, To all to whom these Presents shall come: THIS IS TO CERTIFY that by the records of the UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE it appears that SIEUR DE MONTS SPRING COMPANY, of Bar Harbor, Maine, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Maine, did, on the 22nd day of October , 19, 15, duly file in said Office an application for REGISTRATION of a certain TRADE-MARK for WATER IN ITS NATURAL STATE AND CARBONATED WATER, that it duly filed therewith a drawing of the said TRADE-MARK, a statement relating thereto, and a written declaration, duly verified, copies of which are hereto annexed, and ha S. duly complied with the require- ments of the law in such case made and provided, and with the regulations prescribed by the COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS. And, upon due examination thereof, it appearing that the said appli- cant is entitled to registration of its said TRADE-MARK under the law, the said TRADE - MARK has been duly REGISTERED to Sieur de Monts Spring Company, its successors or assigns, in the UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE, this twenty-first day of August , 19 17. This certificate shall remain in force for TWENTY YEARS, unless sooner terminated by law. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the PATENT OFFICE to be affixed, at the city of Washington, this twenty-first day of August , in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. SIEUR DE MONTS SPRING COMPANY, OF BAR HARBOR, MAINE. TRADE-MARK FOR WATER IN ITS NATURAL STATE AND CARBONATED WATER. 118,230. Registered Aug.21,1917. Application filed October 22, 1915. Serial No. 90,038. STATEMENT. To all whom it may concern: Be it known that SIEUR DE MONTS SPRING The trade mark has been continuously used in the business of said corporation COMPANY, a corporation duly organized un- since September 15, 1915. der the laws of the State of Maine, and lo- The trade mark is applied or affixed to cated in the town of Eden, county of Han- the bottles and other containers used for cock, in said State, and doing business at Bar Harbor, in said town of Eden, county bottling and shipping water by placing thereon a printed or engraved label on and State aforesaid, has adopted and used which the trade mark is shown. the trade-mark shown in the accompanying drawing, for water in its natural state and corbonated water, in Class Number 45, Bev- SIEUR DE MONTS SPRING COMPANY, By GEORGE B. DORR, erages, non-alcoholic. President. ACADIA DEOLARATION. State of Maine, county of Hancock, SS.: among the several States of the United GEORGE B. DORR, being duly sworn, de- States and between the United States and poses and says that he is the president of foreign nations and particularly with the SIEUR DE MONTS SPRING COMPANY, corpora- Dominion of Canada that the description tion, the applicant named in the foregoing and drawing presented truly represent the statement; that he believes the foregoing trade mark sought to be registered and that statement is true; that he believes said cor- the specimens show the trade mark as ac- poration is the owner of the trade mark tually used upon the goods. sought to be registered; that no other per- son, firm, corporation, or association to the GEORGE B. DORR. best of his knowledge and belief has the right to use said trade mark in the United Subscribed and sworn to before me, a no- States either in the identical form or in any tary public, this twenty-fourth day of Sep- such near resemblance thereto as might be tember, 1915. calculated to deceive; that said trade mark [L. s.] LUERE B. DEASY, is used by said corporation in commerce Notary Public. Copies of this trade-mark may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the " Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C." Vol. 531, Page 470. Indenture. Dated Dec. 16, 1916 Recorded Jan 30, 1917. Sieur der Monts Spring Company and The Wild Gardens Acadia. In perpetuity, the right to maintain, protect and control as a wild garden of the Acadian region, under the name of the Delano Wild Gardens, a tract of land owned by said Spring Company situated near Bar Harbor, in the Town of Eden, Hancock County, Ma ine , bounded generally as follows: The said tract consists of the valley of Trout Brook lying between Sieur de Monts Tarn and the brook's crossing of Sieur de Monts Spring road, together with its entire drainage area upon either side, so far as owned by the Spring Company, and so far as the same lies between the County Road, the Tarn and the Spring Road. Provided, however, that said tract shall meet but not extend across the foot of the path leading to the Sieur de Monts National Monument at the foot of the Tarn and shall border the County Road from the northern entrance of the round turn encircling the summit of the Tarn's barrier moraine to the entrance of the Sieur de Monts Spring Road, and shall border the Spring Road thence to its crossing of Trout Brook. Reserving, however, to the Spring Company, its successors and assigns, the right to enter unon any or all of such land, to maintain water pipes and paths across the same, to name such paths, to establish regulations for their proper use, to post such regulations or other directions upon the land 1927 July 27th" page / of 7. springs Co. to Museum Back 614 Page 68 KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That Sieur de Monts Spring Company, a oor- poration duly established under the laws of Maine and having its location at Bar Harbor, in said State, in consideration of One Hundred dollars paid by Lafayette National Park Museum of Stone Age Antiquities, a corporation estab- lished and located as aforesaid, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, does hereby give, grant, bargain, sell and convey unto it, the said Museum Corporation, a certain tract or paroel of land situated at Bar Harbor, County of Hancook, State of Maine, bounded and described as follows:- Beginning on the Eastern line of Lafayette National Park; the noe south eighty- eight degrees thirty minutes east passing through a piece of iron pipe driven in the ground near said Park line two hundred and ten feet more or less to the Western side line of the Jesup Path so-called; thence by said Jesup Path by the next five courses and distances, to wit: First South fifty-nine degrees twenty@five minutes east twenty feet; thence south sixty-six degrees thirty minutes east forty-three and BO I 614 69 six -tenths feet; thence South sixty-nine degrees twenty minutes east thirty-one and two-tenths feet; thence south thirty degrees fifteen minutes east thirty-seven and six-tenths feet; thence south thirteen degrees fifty minutes east thirty feet; thence leaving said Jesup Path and running by the following courses and distances, to wit: south forty degrees forty-five minutes west forty-three and seventy-five hundredths feet; thence South twenty-four degrees west seventy-seven feet;thence south seventy-eight degrees thirty minutes west fifty-five feet; thence north eighty- et ght degrees andthirty minutes west two hundred feet more or less to said Park line, passing through an iron pipe driven in the ground near said Park line; thence north- erly by said Park line two hundred and ten feet, more or less, to the point of be- ginning. Together with and as appurtenant to the above described land and all parts thereof, the following easements and rights to be enjoyed in o ommon with the grantor and its successors and all persons lawfully entitled to similar rights, to wit:- (a) Right of way over road now leading from the Otter Creek Road to Sieur de Monts Spring pump house with loop returning outlet and with right to use parking ground near said pump house. (b) A suitable right of way eight feet wide in every part to be used as a foot way only extending from the Museum lot hereinabove described to the Spring road, so-oalled, the center line of said way being thus described; Beginning at a piece of iron pipe driven in the ground at the East end of the North line of said Museum lot; thence North thirty four degrees east twenty four feet; thence North thirty seven, degrees thirty minutes East eighteen feet;thenoe North forty eight legrees thirty minutes east twenty one and five tenths feet; the noe North fifty de- grees east ninety two feet to said Spring road. (a) A right of way ten feet wide in every part extending from said Museum lot o said Spring. road, the center line of which is described as follows; page 3 Doganning at a p1606 or iron pipe driven in the ground bearing south thirty egrees fifteen minutes east and seven feet distant from the corner of the Museum ot; the noe running North twenty nine degrees thirty minutes east thirty fl ve feet; hence North forty-two degrees east twenty five feet; thenoe North fifty six degrees ast twenty five feet; thence North seventy five degrees thirty minutes east twenty ive feet; thenee North seventy six degrees east seventy five feet to a piece of iron 1 po set in the ground at the said Spring road. Said right of way next hereinabove described and lettered "o" is to be used and n joyed either as a foot way or way for vehioles but is only to be used in case of e-building, repair or other temporary need. (d) A right to lay and maintain beneath the surface of the ground, and to use nd enjoy, water and drainage pipes and electric wires. The grantor hereby reserves for itself, and its successors and assigns, the light to o onstruot and maintain a trail up the Mountain, crossing the land conveyed a the Western side of the Museam Building, for the purpose of placing, maintaining, ad visiting a Memorial upon the heighths above, as originally planned. page 4 BOOK 61 The land hereby described as conveyed is 80 conveyed subject to the following conditions, not conditions subsequent, to wit:- 1. It shall be used and oadupied only for the purposes specified in the Articles of Association of the said Museum Corporation as now in force. 2. So long as persons visiting or using the Museum are permitted the free use of the water closets and similar sanitary faoilities maintained by the grantor, or its successors upon adjoining land, no such feature shall be per- mitted upon the land hereby conveyed. Said land being a part of the water-shed of the Sieur de Monts Spring Com- pany nothing shall be done or suffered that will contaminate the soil. The grounds shall in all ways be maintained in harmony with those about the Spring. No musical or noise-making instrumentsshal be kept or permitted upon the o on- veyed premi 80 8. 3. The property conveyed is so conveyed subject to the following express conditions subsequent:- That if at a time said property shall, for a period of one year after notice of claimed forfeiture given, oease to be used and occupied for the purposes herein specified, (including such uses as are reasonably and appro- priately associated therewith) then in such case the title and right hereby grant- ed shall cease and determine and the property shall revert to the grantor or its successors TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the aforegranted and bargained premises, toge ther with all the privileges and appurtenances there of, to it the said Grantee, its success- obs and assigns, for its and their use and behoof forever. And the grantor for the consideration aforesaid does hereby covenant with the said grantee that it is seized in fee of the said premises; that the same are free of incumbrance made or suffered by it; that it, the said grantor, has good right to sell and convey the same to the said grantee to hold as aforesaid; and that it, the said grantor, and its successors shall and will WARRANT AND DEFEND the same tp the said Grantee, its successors and assigns forever against the law- ful olaims and demands of all persons claiming by, through or under it. BOOK 650 (_) Museum to Park Page 5 11-12/03 D-24 CERTIFICATE OF ACCEPTANCE. By virtue of and pursuant to the authority conferred by the Aots of Congress of February 26, 1919 (40 Stat. 1178) and Junuary 19, 1929 (45 Stat. 1083) ,I, the undersigned as Assistant Secretary or the Interior, do hereby accept the attached deed dated August 12, 1930, wherein and whereby the Laf- ayette National Park Museum of Stone Age Antiquities conveys to the United States of America oertain land and rights-of-way located in Hunoook County, Liaine, as all addition to Acudia National Park. In witness whereof. I, us said Assistant Secretury, hereunto set my hand officially and have caused the seal of suid Department to be affixed hereto and in attestation hereof this tenth uay of September, 1930. JOHN 11. EDWARDS Interior Assistant Secretary of Seal the Interior. MCD CCD GAM AEO THIS INDENTURE LIADE THIS twel1th day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty, between the Lufayette Nutional Park Museun of Stone Age Antiquities, a corporation organized under the laws of Illuine and having an established place of business at Bur Harbor, Hunoook County, Huine, grantor, purty of the first part, and the Secretary of the Interior, for and in behalf of the United States of America, grantee, party of the second part. WITNESSETTI: THAT WIEREAS by Act of Congress entitled "An Act to establish the Lufayette National Purk in the State of Naine", approved February 26, one thousand nine hundred und nineteen, us amended by Act of Congress approved January 19th, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, to accept in behalf of the United Stutes such property in suid luncock County including lands, ease- ments, buildings and moneys, us muy be donuted l'or the extension or im- provement of suid Purk, and MIEREAS the suiu property hereinafter described consisting of lands and eusements are all held in private ownership by the said Lafayette National Purk huseun of Stone hgt Antiquities. ilu.. EREFUNE, suid party or the first purt for and in consideration or the l'acts above recited and of the sum of one dollur to it puid by the United States of America, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, does hereby GRANT to said United Stutes of Ameriou, a certain tract or paroel of land situuted in said Bur Hurbor, bounded und described us follows, to wit: Beginning 011 the oustern line of Acudiu National Purk; thence south eighty-eight degrees thirty minutes eust passing through a piece of iron pipe driven in the ground neur suid Park line two hundred and ten feet more or less to the western side line of the Jesup Puth, so called; thence by said Jesup Path by the next five courses ana distances, to wit:- first south fifty-nine degrees twenty-five minutes east twenty feet; thence south sixty- six degrees thirty minutes east forty-three und six-tenths feet; thenoe south sixty-nine degrees twenty minutes east thirty-one and two-tenths feet; thence south thirty degrees l'ifteen minutes eust thirty-seven und six-tenths feet; thence south thirteen degrees filty minutes east thirty feet; thenee leaving suid Jesup Path und running by the following courses and distances, to wit:- south forty degrees forty-five minutes west forty-three and seventy- five hundredths feet; thence south twenty-iour degrees west seventy-seven feet; thenoe south seventy-eight degrees thirty minutes west fifty-1'ive feet; thenoe north eighty-cigit dugrees and thirty minutes west two hundred feet more or less to suid Pork line, passing through un iron pipe uriven in the ground near suid Park line; thence northerly by suid Park line two hundred and ten feet, more or less, to the point of beginning. page 6 Together with una us appurtenant to the above described land und all parts thereof, the following equements und rights to be enjoyed in common with all persons lawrully entitled to similar rights to wit:- (u) Right of way over road now leading 1'rom the Utter Creek Road to Sieur de Lonts Spring pump house with loop returning outlet and with right to use purking ground neur suid pump house. (b) A suitable right of wuy eight leet wide in every part to be used as a foot way only extending from the Lusoum Lot hereinabove described to the Spring Roud, so-called, the center line of suid wuy being thus described; Betimming ut u piece of iron pipe driven in the ground at the east end of the north line of suid Museum Lot; thence north thirty-four degrees eust twenty- four feet; thence north thirty seven degrees thirty minutes aust eighteen feet; thence north forty-eight degrees thirty minutes east twenty one and live tenths feet; tuenoe north firty degrees cust ninety-two feet to suid Spring Road. (0) A right of wuy ten l'eet wide in every purt extending from suid Misseum Lot to suid Spring Road, the conter line or which is described us follows: Beciming ut u pluco or iron pipe drivon in the (round bouring south thirty degrees l'itteun minutes cust und sevull feet distunt 1'rom the vorner of the Liuseun Lot; thence running north twenty-nine degrees thirty minutes eust twenty- five reet; thence north forty-two cust twenty-five - fout; thenoe north lifty-six degrees eust twenty-five fool; thonue north seventy-five - deqrees thirty minutes east twenty-1 i ve l'eet; thenue north seventy-six degrees eust seventy-five feet to a piece of iron pine sut in the ground ut the suid Spring Road. Suid right or way next hereinabove described und lettered "C" is to be used and enjoyed either uy u l'out way or muy for vehicles but is only to be used in Page 7 ouse of re-bullding, repuir u) other temporary need. (u) A right lu luy and mointula boneath the survade of the ground, and to use and enjoy wuter and drulmugo [ipes und electric wires. hicaning and Intending to inoludo unu convey ull and the sume property desoribed us conveyed in the deed from the Slour de Monts Spring Company to the auid Lufayutte National Purk huseum of Stone Age Antiquities dated July 22nd, 1927 und recorded in the County, Moine, Registry of Deods Vol. 614, Page 68, but subject to all and the sume reservation and con- ditions us are set forth in said deed, reference to which und to the record thereof is expressly mude for a full description. Excepting and reserving 1'rom such conveyunce to the grantor and its successors for ull the purposes set l'orth in the grantor's articles of Associa- tion, the perpetual right to the use and control of said property and ease- ments including the Museum Building upon suid lund and its collections. Also reserving the perpetual use of the paths and ways appurtenant to the suid land. And ulso reserving the right to erect other buildings and to make such additions, ulterutions und improvements to buildings us luay be desired by the grantor. Reservation or such wuys, however, to be subject to the following conditions, to wit: That the Park Department shull have the right to close any vehicular wuy leading to the Museum at uny hour or time when the Museum is not 111 use, and subject to the rurther condition that at the option of the Purk Service unotner road or rouds may be substituted l'or those now in use provided such substituted rouds af1'ord equally adequate access. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the some, together with ull the privileges and appur- tenances thereunto belonging unto the United Stutes or America for the publio good and for the extension or improvement of said Purk, forever. III WITNESS WHEREOF, the suiu Lufuyette National Purk Museum of Stone Age Antiquities has caused its corporate seul to be hereto affixed and these presents to be signed in its name and behalf by Luere B. Deusy, its President, and by Coremus B. Rodiok, its Clerk, duly authorized, the day and year first above written. LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK MISEUM OF STull. AGE ANTIQUITIES By Luere L. Deusy, Corporate President SEAL. By Serenus B. Rodick, Clerk. STATE OF HAINE Hunoock, ss. August 12, 1930. Personally appeared the above numed Luere B. Deasy, President, and Serenus B. Rodick, Clerk, und boknowledged the above instrument to be their free uct und used and the free act and deed of said Corporation. Before we, Motorial David U. Rodick, Seal. Notury Public. by Commission expires Doc. ,1933. At u meeting 01 the Directors und Members of the Lufuyette Nutional Purk Luseum of Stone Age Antiquities duly called und held ut the Bar Harbor Banking & Trust Company on Friday, August 8, A. D. 1930, ut eleven o'clock in the l'orenoon, which meeting was adjourned until August 12, A. D. 1950, to meet at the same time and pluce, at which meetings a quorum was present, the rollowing resolution was adopted: RESOLVED that the Presiuent und Clerk or this Corporation be and they hereby are authorized to offer and to convey by suitable instrument to the United States Government l'or inclusion In Aoudia National Purk the legul title in l'ee simple or ull or the reul property now owned by the Corporation and sit- uateu on Mount Desert Island in the State or' iwine, excepting and reserving l'roid such conveyance to the gruntor und its successors for all the purposes set 1'orth in the grantor's articles or association, the perpetual right to the use and control or suid property and easements including the Museum Building upon suid land and its collections. Also reserving the perpetual use of the puths and ways appurtenant to the suid land. And also reserving the right to erect other buildings und to make such additions, alterutions and improvements to buildings us muy be desired by the grantor. Reservation of such ways, however, to be subject to the following conditions, to wit: That the Pork Department shull huve the right to close uny vehicular way leuding to the huseum ut any hour or time when the kusown is not in use, und subject to the further condition that at the option of the Park Service another road or roads may be substituted l'or those now in use provided such substituted roads afford equally adequate access. Serenus B. Rodick, Clerk. A true record Attust: Serenus L. Rodiok. Clerk. Received 4/16/1930 18 The Homestead BOOKING OFFICES NEW YORK ROGER MINISTRY RITZ-CARLTON HOTEL WASHINGTON THE MAYFLOWER Open all the Year May 4, 1933 HOT SPRINGS, VIRGINIA Dear Mr. Lynam: I have been recently looking over your letter to me of November 28th with its enclosures in regard to the Wild Gardens of Acadia. When you last talked with Mr. Dorr about the possibility of his deeding this property to Acadia National Park, retaining for his organization the right to operate it as was done with the Abbey Museum, you found him not sym- pathetic to the idea. It may be that after further reflection he will feel differently about it. When I am in Maine, I shall be glad to dis- cuss the subject with you again. In the meantime, I am wondering whether you have had prepared a plan showing all of Mr. Dorr's personal real es- tate holdings as well as all the property owned by the Wild Gardens of Acadia in their relation to land owned by the Park and myself. I think it is important that you and I study this whole prob- lem and work together in an effort to help Mr. Dorr so arrange his affairs that what he really desires to have done with this property after he passes on will be done. His lack of experience in matters of this kind may result in his not knowing how best to accomplish that end. My present plan is to reach Seal Harbor Saturday morning, May 13th, and to remain three or four days. Very truly, John's Mr. A. H. Lynam Bar Harbor Maine American Memory from the Library of Congress Page 1 of 2 Result 6 of 43 for acadia Back to Results list Previous Item I Next Item Built in America Rights and Reproductions Supplemental Material 3 drawings 1 data pages Item Title Alternate Title Acadia Medium Call Number Created/Published Notes Subjects MAINE--Hancock County--Bar Harbor vicinity water supply circular buildings springhouses Related Names Dorr, George B. England, Steven A., field team Edwards, Arthur Lee H., field team Roberts, Lennard, field team Schafer, Jack W., delineator Reproduction Number Collection Repository DIGID CARD # ttp://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?hh:6:./temp/~ammem_pXIK: 8/18/2006 APPENDIX H - INTERPRETIVE TRAIL GUIDES Sieur de Monts Spring Trail Guide The following is only the text for the trail guide. There are no numbered posts. It is provided to give guides an idea of what is available to their groups. To purchase the actual trail guide, check at park information centers. WELCOME TO SIEUR DE MONTS SPRING Nature shaped the valley. Glaciers carved it out, leaving Dorr Mountain and Huguenot Head to tower above. A fire swept through here in 1947, forcing the spruce-fir forest to surrender to maples, birches, and aspens. Wetlands at both ends of the valley-the Tarn to the south and Great Meadow to the north-replenish or dry, at the mercy of snowmelt, rain, and beaver dams. People shaped this valley. The human presence can be traced back to American Indians, early European settlers, and those who came to enjoy the natural beauty of Mount Desert Island. Sieur de Monts Spring chronicles not only natural events of the long distant past, but the story of people who strove to preserve it as part of a great national park. Follow the paved path to the wooden bridge. EXPLORERS, SETTLERS, AND FOUNDERS When the French explorer, Sieur de Monts, sailed along these shores in 1604, this spring area lay in the shadows of the unknown, untouched and unseen by Europeans. The spring was probably known to American Indians who visited it while passing through the gorge between Huguenot Head and Dorr Mountain, on their way to Otter Creek. Sieur de Monts' navigator, Samuel Champlain, charted the coast, including this island, which he named l'Isle des Monts Desert-Island of Barren Mountains. The island, with its prominent headlands and peaks, became an unmistakable landmark for mariners, and part of the prize in the war between the French and British. George B. Dorr, a park founder and its first superintendent (1916-1944), was fascinated by the island's French history. When he acquired the land around this spring, he named it in honor of the man who sought to open the New World to French settlement and establish "New France" in North America. From the bridge, follow the gravel path to the domed spring house. A-93 SWEET WATERS OF ACADIA The British battled the French for dominance in the New World, and won. By the American Revolutionary War, Maine was still sparsely settled. Islanders subsisted on what they could harvest from sandy, rocky soil and the sea. Land once known only to American Indians was divided into homesteads and its forests harvested. The land around the spring was once farm land. In the early 1900s, two enterprising islanders planned to open a commercial spring water business here. Their scheme failed and George B. Dorr purchased the spring in 1909. Dorr placed the Florentine-style canopy over the spring "with openings upon the sides protected to a man's height and over with plates of purest glass, SO that all who wished might look in." He carved Sweet Waters of Acadia on a boulder "in memory of two spring fountains I had once visited built by the Greeks{sic} and named "The Sweet Waters of Europe and The Sweet Waters of Asia." To the right of the spring and boulder is a wooden post that marks the Dorr Mountain trails. Walk over to it. STONE STEPS TO THE SUMMIT Early settlers and visitors recorded following "Indian paths" on many parts of the island. Islanders added to this network as needed. By the late 1800s and early 1900s, visitors and summer residents, like George B. Dorr, great walkers all, desired trails that went beyond mere utility. Village Improvement Societies oversaw the construction of new trails that blended harmoniously with the landscape and delivered the hiker to beautiful scenery. Often times, trail builders used granite found along trail routes to build unobtrusive but solid trails. Stone stepped trails characterize the pathways to Dorr Mountain's summit. Trails with stairways, builders believed, allowed hikers of every ability to enjoy steep, or otherwise impassible mountainsides. Follow the Dorr Mountain Trail a short way to a second trail sign. It is not very far and involves only a couple of stone steps. If you prefer, remain where you are. MEMORIAL PATHS This is the East Face Trail, originally called the Emery Path. Sponsors were sought to fund trail construction. Sponsors could name a trail in memory of the person of A-94 THE SIGNIFICANCE of to Bar Harbor SIEUR DE MONTS SPRING In 1909, George B. Dorr, Acadia's first superintendent, built an octagonal tile-roofed structure over a spring at the south end of Great Wild Gardens Meadow. On a nearby rock, he carved The Sweet Waters of Acadia. of an He named the spring Sieur de Monts, in honor of the French noble- Acadia man who was commissioned Lieutenant Governor of New France by King Henry IV in 1603. As Lieutenant Governor, Pierre Dugua Sieur de Mons gained authority over all North America between the N 40th and the 46th parallels, from present day Philadelphia to Cape Breton. Dugua was directed "to establish the name, power, and authority Nature Center of the King of France: to summon the natives to a knowledge of the Christian religion: to people, cultivate, and settle the said lands: to make explorations and especially to seek out mines of precious metals." to Dorr George B. Dorr to Armed with his grandiose mission, Mountain Monument to Sand Beach Dugua, his navigator Samuel Champlain, and his crew sailed to Blackwoods Campground North America. There they estab- Spring House lished an ill-fated French settle- ment on Saint Croix Island, located on the present-day Maine/ New Brunswick border. KEY Dorr's work at Sieur de Monts trail Spring symbolizes the enthusiasm and spirit of many early twentieth stream century summer residents who bridge worked to preserve and protect the natural and historic values of Mount paved Desert Island. In a sense, Sieur de walk Monts Spring has become a memo- Abbe Museum rial to Dorr, for it was his inspira- tion and determination that led to the creation of Acadia National Park. George B. Dorr 12/99 XFINITY Connect Page 1 of 2 XFINITY Connect eppster2@comcast.ne + Font Size Re: Dorr- Spring Co From Ronald & Elizabeth Epp Thu, Nov 22, 2012 03:48 PM Subject Re: Dorr- Spring Co To : don lenahan Dear Don, How very good to hear from you! I appreciate your efforts to keep me abreast of MDI historical developments. I also receive periodic updates with a different slant from Jack Russell and Bill Horner. Speaking of the latter, have you talked to him about what he has discovered--with some initial assistance from me--in the BH basement archive of the Chapman law firm? It is well worth pursuing, a rich depository--in breadth and depth. Especially the map collection!!!! Hundreds of indexed scrolled and flat maps from the late 19th-century to the middle-of the 20th with a focus on JDR Jr. and Acadia National Park. As far as I know no one at park hq was aware of the existence of this treasure trove until the last year or two. I posed yesterday a parcel of copies of many of the documents that I have relevant to the Dorr Spring Co., with the attribution in the margins. I suspect that they will not resolve the questions you posed to me but I do agree with you that the Spring slab in the woods was probably the original. However, I do find it hard to believe that Dorr would have knowingly discarded it there; it could be that when the area came under JDR Jr.,'s ownership that it was discarded so as not to have public confusion resulting from two such stone slabs. Why it wasn't relocated to Oldfarm I can't say. The 1915 article on the Spring from the BHT appears to be the most substantial and I suspect that you have already seen it. If you have the final page, which I am missing, send it along to me if you please. In the Chapman archive are Sieur de Mont Spring Co. stock certificates (#1-20) dated 8/1/1917, valued at $25. with a $500. payment date of 8/1/1927, as unbelievable as that might sound. For the past year I have done some very modest revisions of the completed Dorr biography. All my attention has been centered on Elizabeth who has been battling several cancers. A finger-sized portion of her tongue was removed in January, her neck was re-sectioned to remove forty lymph nodes and her thyroid, followed by 33 daily doses of radiation and three doses of chemotherapy. Now there has been a recurrence and we are going through another round of tests. This was not the retirement we envisioned! When you receive the parcel I posted and have reviewed it, do let me know whether it was helpful and what conclusions you have drawn. I so very much appreciate these opportunities to interact with you--even at a distance. Have a happy holiday! My Very Best Wishes, Ron Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. 532 Sassafras Dr. Lebanon, PA 17042 717-272-0801 eppster2@comcast.net From: "don lenahan" To: "Ron & Elizabeth Epp" Cc: "Don Lenahan" Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 7:44:30 Subject: Spring Co Hi, Ron -- I hope you and Elizabeth are doing well in your new home and state! It's been a while since we chatted and I thought it'd be good to let you know what I've been up to. hhttp://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=96021&tz=America/New_York&. 11/22/2012 XFINITY Connect Page 2 of 2 You're likely aware that an org called Friends of Island History was established, perhaps 2 yrs ago now, with intent to bring all the orgs interested in MDI history together to share their data, etc. I was a founding member and strongly suggested to Bill Horner, it's leader, the first important act of FOIH should be to step out and fund the digitization of the microfilm of the Bar Harbor Times (I spent countless hrs in Jesup Lib basement on its sole mf reader to know digitization was the way to go!). That has been done and it's going through a final debugging phase. However, because of the meetings and reinventions/introductions that go with meetings (and having retired from the fed govt and being sick of meetings), I dropped out but continue to support FOIA on the sidelines. I've suggested to Bill the next step should be the digitization of Bar Harbor's vital records and once done those of the other MDI towns. Because I accumulated lots of data of the people I wrote about in my book, that I didn't use, I decided to write a blog. You might be interested in taking a look at it at acadiamemorials.blogspot.com I would sincerely welcome hearing your thoughts. In the book (p. 88) I talked about an engraved granite slab I found in the woods a 1/4 mile from the Sieur de Monts spring. It says "Eaux Douces Sweet Waters I now know where it was originally at SdM before its trip to the lonely woods. I think you can help me pinpoint its location. In 1915 three buildings were being completed at SdM by the SdM Spring Co: the spring house cover, the bottling bldg and a reception bldg. Between the spring house and the latter two bldgs was the pool. Do you have any info about this, photos, postcards, etc. that would help me id the bldgs or any refs to the bottling co's operations? The Eaux Douces slab was definitely moved from the pool to the woods. There is a boulder near the spring house, but not in 1915- 16, that says just "Sweet Waters of Acadia." It looks to me the more visible boulder took precedence and was the reason the ground-level slab was removed. Any info on this? If you have any questions about what I've been doing, or more importantly what you want me to do, pls let me know. I'm out there every day and would happily try to help you. 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BUCKNAM DORR ISLAND SOJOURNER, BENEFACTOR AND, LATER, FIRST SUP'T. OF ACADIA NP -- RECALLS HIS 11th-HOUR PURCHASE OF LAND HERE, THEREBY REALIZING HIS VISION OF A NEW PARK CTR. & TRAIL NUCLEUS. Historical Information Period of Construction: HISTORIC Date: 1909-CA. (BU) Designer : DORR, GEORGE BUCKNAM (O) Date: - ( ) Designer: ( ) Date: - ( ) Designer: ( ) Date: - ( ) Designer: ( ) Functions, Uses, Materials, Impacts, and Condition Historic Functions Current Uses MONUMENT (MARKER, PLAQUE) MONUMENT (MARKER, PLAQUE) Buildings Materials Structures Foundation: Sub-structure: EARTH Framing: Walls: Roof: Super-structure: STONE Other: Volume: Description LARGE BOULDER w/ STEEPLY SLOPING FACE HAS CARVED ROMAN LETTERS READING "SIEVR DE MONTS SPRING." LARGE AREA @ REAR APPEARS SPLIT & REATTACHED DAMAGE FROM 1947 FIRE? Impact Level: LOW Impact Types: STRUCTURAL DETERIORATION VISITATION Condition: GOOD page 1 of 2 Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record Page 1 of 2 AMERICAN MEMORY of CONGRESS Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record (If noted, names of historians, or other compilers, and date are noted in the data pages.) data pages Sieur De Monts Spring Bridge, Spanning Park Loop Rd. at Rt.3 near Sieur De Monts, BAR HARBOR VICINITY, Hancock County, ME Data page 1 of 8 Turn to data page NEXT DATA PAGE 1 Back to catalog record I LC-HABS/HAER Home Page I Highest Resolution Image (Compressed TIFF - 7K) SIXUE DE MONTS SPRING BRIDGE KAER NO. MR-14 Acadis National Park Roads & Bridges Spanning Park Loop Road at Raute 3, DEAR Stour Be Monte Spring Bar Karbor Victimity Bancock County HAER time ME BAHAY 16- WRITTEN HYSTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE DATA PHOTOGRAPHS Richard Dreis HISTORIC AMERICAN ESCINEERING RECORD National Park Service Department of the Interior P.O. Box 37127 Washington, D.C. 20013-7127 http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=hhdatapage&fileName=me/me0200/me0238/data/hhdatapage.db&recNum=0&..: 6/3/2002 toric American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record Page 1 of 2 AMERICAN MEMORY CONGRESS Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record (If noted, names of historians, or other compilers, and date are noted in the data pages.) data pages Sieur De Monts Spring Bridge, Spanning Park Loop Rd. at Rt.3 near Sieur De Monts, BAR HARBOR VICINITY, Hancock County, ME Data page 3 of 8 Turn to data page PREV DATA PAGE I NEXT DATA PAGE 3 Back to catalog record I LC-HABS/HAER Home Page I Highest Resolution Image (Compressed TIFF-29K) - HAER ME 5-BAHAJI HISTORIC AMERICAN ENGINEERING RECORD 16- SIEUR DE MONTS SPRING BRIDGE RAER No. ME-14 LOCATION: Spanning Park Loop Road on Maine Route 3, 1/4 mile ESE of Siour de Konte Spring, Acadia National Park, Sar Harbor vicinity, Mount Desext Island, Hancock County, Noine Quad: Seal Harbor. Maine UTM: 19/563425/4912100 DATE OF CONSTRUCTION: 1940 ENGINEER Leo Grousman, Associate Highway Engineer, Public Roads Administration, Supervising Engineer Nathan Gordon, Assistant Highway:Engineer, Public Roads Administration, Structural Engineer CONTRACTOR: J.R. Partridge, Augusta, Maine STRUCTURE TYPE: Stone faced reinforced concrete segmental arch bridge FHWA STRUCTURE NO.: 1700-006P ONNER: Acadia National Park, National Park Service SIGNIFICANCE: The Sieur de Nonta Spring Bridge provided a separated grade crossing between the Bar Harbor-Seal Harbor highway and the Park Loop Road. Boggy soil conditions at the site forced the contractor to employ a reinforced concrete "raft" to support the footings, 50 in effect the bridge "floats" on ito foundations. PROJECT INFORMATION: Documentation of the Sieur de Monts Spring Bridge is part of the Acadia National Park Roads and Bridges Recording Project, conducted in 1994-95 by the Historic American Engineering Record. Richard H. Quin, HAER Historian, 1994 6 pages http://memorv.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=hhdatapage&fileName=me/me0200/me0238/data/hhdatapage.db&recNum=2&:6/3/2002 8/24/2021 Sieur de Monts Springhouse, Route 3 & Park Road, Mount Desert Island, Bar Harbor, Hancock County, ME Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog LIBRARY ASK A LIBRARIAN DIGITAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARY CATALOGS LIMRARY OF CONGRESS Search Search Loc.gov GO Library of Congress > Prints & Photographs Reading Room > Prints & Photographs Online Catalog > Record Historic American Buildings Sieur de Monts Springhouse, Route 3 & Park Road, Mount Desert Island, Bar Harbor, Hancock County, ME Survey, Engineering Record, Landscapes Title: Sieur de Monts Springhouse, Route 3 & Park Road, Mount Desert Island, Bar Harbor, Survey Hancock County, ME Other Title: Acadia National Park Creator(s): Historic American Buildings Survey, creator Related Names: Dorr, George B England, Steven A / field team Edwards, Arthur L. H. / field team DRAWINGS Roberts, Lennard , field team Schafer, Jack W , delineator Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after 1933 View drawings from this survey. (Some may not be Medium: Measured Drawing(s): 3 online). Reproduction Number: Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114 habs.html) PDF Call Number: HABS ME,5-BAHA.V,1- Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print DATA PAGES Notes: Significance: On November 8, 1603, King Henry IV of France granted a patent to Pierre de Gua, Sieur de Monts, giving him full authority over La Cadie (L'Acadie or Acadia French for the Indian name "The Place") which was all of North America between the 40th & 46th parallels. De Monts sailed on March 7, 1604, with Samuel de Champlain as geographer and PDF by late June had established a settlement on what is now Saint Croix Island National Monument. In September 1604 Champlain, while exploring L'Acadie, discovered and named L'Isle des Monts-Desert (Island of Bare Mountains), now Mount Desert Island. Sieur de Monts Springhouse was built by George B. Dorr in 1909 on land acquired for $5,000.00. Dorr SUPPLEMENTAL cleaned the spring, built the Florentine springhouse and named it Sieur de Monts Spring. As executive secretary of the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations, Dorn was most influential in establishing De Monts National Monument in 1916, predecessor of Acadia Related National Park. - Browse neighboring items by call number. Survey number: HABS ME-173 Collection: Historic American Buildings Building/structure dates: 1909 Initial Construction Survey/Historic American Engineering Subjects: Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey springhouses circular buildings water supply Place: Maine -- Hancock County -- Bar Harbor Collections: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey Part of: Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress) Bookmark This Record: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/me0187/ https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/me0187/ 1/1 Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record Page 2 of 2 Sigur de March Springlause HABS No. ME-173 Bar Earbor Vicinity (etc. Desert Island) Hancock Country HAS Maine ME, 5-BAIIA.V, YEASURED DRAWINGS Historit American Halidings Survey Nac local Park Service Department of the faterior Washington, D.C. 20240 Back to catalog record I Built in America Home Page I Highest Resolution Image (Compressed TIFF - 20K) Data page 1 of 1 American Memory I Search All Collections I Collection Finder I Learning Page The Library of Congress Contact Us http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=hhdatapage&fileName=me/me0100/me018. 8/18/2006 LIST OF CLASSIFIED STRUCTURES (LCS) SINGLE ENTRY REPORT Identification 101,CS: 41159 Structure Number: MON34 " ructure Name 1: "SWEET WATERS OF ACADIA" ROCK " ructure Name 2: 'il ructure Name 3: Pillk Alpha Code: ACAD Name: ACADIA NATIONAL PARK ORGCODE: 1700 County: HANCOCK State: ME Regional Office: NORTH ATLANTIC munit ORGCODE: Name: Alpha Code: County: HANCOCK State: ME Number of UTM's: 0 Zone/Easting/Northing Significance NR Status: UNDETERMINED Date: / / Significance: NOT EVALUATED NHL: NO Date: / / 'ulificance REPRESENTS VISION OF GEO. BUCKNAM DORR -- ISLAND SOJOURNER, BENEFACTOR AND, LATER, FIRST SUP'T. OF ACADIA NP. LONG FASCINATED BY SPRINGS, DORR BORROWED NAME "SWEET WATERS OF ACADIA" ("LES EAUX DOUCES DE ACADIE") FROM FRENCH POET MARC LESCARBOT. Historical Information of Construction: HISTORIC 1909-CA.? (BU) Designer: DORR, GEORGE BUCKNAM (O) - ( ) Designer: ( ) - ( ) Designer: ( ) - ) Designer: ( ) Sinctions, Uses, Materials, Impacts, and Condition MINUMENT historic Functions Current Uses (MARKER, PLAQUE) MONUMENT (MARKER, PLAQUE) Buildings Materials Structures ination: Sub-structure: EARTH naming: Nalls: Roof: Super-structure: GRANITE "ther: iption TREAT STONE w/ SLOPED FACE IS CARVED w/ INSCRIPTION "SWEET WATERS OF ACADIA" w/ ROMAN LETTERS. NARRY SPLIT MARKS @ REAR. SURROUNDED BY RING OF SMALL BOULDERS. NOTE: SEE ALSO A SIMILAR EXTANT thms (IDLCS #41365). impact Level: LOW Impact Types: WEATHER VISITATION Condition: FAIR STRUCTURAL DETERIORATION page 1 of 2 C U P Y UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ACADIA NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE November 18, 1935. Dear Mr. Rodick: Allotment of funds has been made by the Federal Government for connecting the Park road on Cadillac Mountain with the entrance road to Sieur de Monts Spring, and studies by the Federal Bureau of Roads engineers are now in process for the alignment of the road. The next step in the plan for a continuous Park road connecting the mountain with the oceanfront and beyond will, according to present plans, be the cause- way across Otter Creek built along the line of the existing bar with a lock at its western end for tidal flow, and a road along the shore beyond, below what are known as the Black Woods, to connect with the County Road to Seal Harbor near the bridge over Hunter's Brook. For the construction of this section no funds have been as yet provided, but request for them has been made by the Department of the Interior. Studies for the connecting section between Sieur de Monts Spring and the oceanfront have been made, but nothing definite as to what is best or possible has been arrived at or can be at this time. A' Two routes for this are physically possible: The one, along the western side of the mountain and around its southern end to make at the Homans pasture on its eastern side a quick reversal of direction and proceed thence to connection, at its eastern end, with the re- constructed Ocean Drive. The other route, passing # below the mountain's northern, wooded face and along its eastern side, would continue southward to the same point as the western route in the Homans pasture, and thence continuing on in direct course, and along the same route as the other after making its reversal, to the Ocean Drive. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ACADIA NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE Mr. David O. Rodick. Page 2. This latter course would open up successively views of great interest and beauty; the course around # / the western side and southern end of the mountain dis- closes no feature of interest along its course, passing through woods continuously from the Tarn to the Homans pasture. To this route, when proposed five years ago, strong antagonism immediately developed, on account, especially, of its course closely paralleling the State highway past the Tarn and of its passage at the moun- tain's southern end through the Gorham-Beehive Pass, carrying one of the oldest footways on the Island connecting the early farming community at Schooner Head community at Otter Creek. and back of the Sand Beach with the farming and fishing The route below the mountain's northern face and #2 along its eastern side would pass necessarily through private property -- my own land first, and that which oration; next, the rocky, upper corner of the Livingston I deeded years ago to the Wild Gardens of Acadia Corp- property; then, the Hare Forest mountain land, acquired from the Bowler Estate by Mr. Potter Palmer. Beyond this by for Mr. Rockefeller, who now offers it to the Government comes the tract acquired from the Bingham Heirs Estate the purpose of this road, beyond which the Government Brunnow owns property, acquired long since through gifts of Dr. level and past the foot of the mountain's high eastern and Mrs. William Bliss, extending to the meadow to cliff, whence the way lies open ahead in direct course the Homans pasture. An alternate route to this which has been would, after leaving my land at Bear Brook Quarry, proposed issue Livingston's land and Mr. Palmer's Hare Forest Mrs. onto the Schooner Head Road and, skirting around favorable opportunity offers, to join the route above, a tract, would ascend closely beyond the latter, where mountain surveyed for a continuous Park road. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ACADIA NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR. MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT Mr. David 0. Rodick. Page 3. To this latter course the Government objects on the ground that it would break the desired continuous progression of the road as a Park road, and I -- though no decision rests with me, but with the Government alone -- because of the break which an ascent at this point would make in the now continuous woodland cover of that steeply mounting hillside, visible from high points of view along the shore to the north and east and from the waters of the Bay. These all are to be looked on at this time as studies only which may aid discussion in the future. Believe me, Sincerely yours, GBD/S (Sgd) GEORGE B. DORR, Superintendent. Mr. David O. Rodick, Bar Harbor, Maine. RECEIVED from ReBecca Cole-Will, 3/31/14 t 5/28/14 THE TARN: COMMUNITY RECOLLECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS by Shirley J. Fiske, Ph.D. Prepared under cooperative agreement with University of Maryland College Park Northeast Region Ethnography Program National Park Service Boston, MA 2012 National Park Service Cultural Landscapes Inventory 2009 Sieur de Monts Spring Acadia National Park Table of Contents Inventory Unit Summary & Site Plan Concurrence Status Geographic Information and Location Map Management Information National Register Information Chronology & Physical History Analysis & Evaluation of Integrity Condition Treatment Bibliography & Supplemental Information Sieur de Monts Spring Acadia National Park Sieur de Monts Spring is a National Park Service (NPS) developed area in Acadia National Park, located in Hancock County, Maine. Acadia was the first national park established east of the Mississippi River and today encompasses over 47,000 acres across Mount Desert Island, the Schoodic Peninsula, and other smaller islands. Situated on the east side of the island and nestled in a picturesque gorge formed by Dorr Mountain and Huguenot Head, the 41-acre site is defined by a broad wetland area to the north and east, called the Great Meadow; a dammed wetland that is now a small man-made lake to the south, named the Tarn; and the steep wooded slopes of Dorr Mountain to the west. The site is mostly covered with spruce, maple, hemlock, and birch trees except for a glade, or clearing, of grass that highlights an Italian Renaissance Revival-style canopy structure built over a natural spring that flows into a nearby stone-lined open water pool. These picturesque features were built in 1909 by George Bucknam Dorr, prior to the park's establishment and before Dorr became its first superintendent Next to the spring pool is the spring building [now called the Nature Center], built in 1949 in the NPS Rustic Design style to replace an earlier Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) building destroyed in the Great Fire of 1947. Other facilities include a parking lot and loop road built by the CCC in 1939, and a tool shed and restroom built by the NPS in 1948 and 1949. Well-crafted hiking trails built in the 1910s and 1920s begin or pass through the property, and connect to scenic destinations in the surrounding meadows and rugged mountains. The site also includes the intimate Abbe Museum built in 1928 (not owned by the park), the colorful Wild Gardens of Acadia displays of native plants installed in 1961, and several historic stone monuments with inscribed letters and memorial plaques. HISTORICAL OVERVIEW The rugged gorge and clear streams that would become known as the Great Meadow, the Tarn, and a place called Sieur de Monts Spring may have once provided Native Americans a passage through Mount Desert Island's thick spruce forests (Brown 2006:12-13). Europeans later traveled through the area, and by the mid-1800s a road was built on the east side of the gorge between present day Bar Harbor and Otter Cliffs. Farming, fishing, and logging were early land use activities. What effect this picturesque landscape had on the early inhabitants and settlers is not known, but it did inspire Thomas Cole and other artists of the Hudson River School to paint and draw it, which attracted other writers, scientists, and travelers. The summer visitors were known as the "rusticators," and by the 1870s they had transformed Bar Harbor and other island communities into tourism-based economies. By the late nineteenth century, the island had also become a retreat for the wealthy who longed to escape the summer heat in the cities and enjoy the natural scenery. The rapid increase in residents and tourists on Mount Desert Island coincided with a national movement to preserve scenic areas from development. Two such organizations, the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association (VIA) and the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations (HCTPR), served to consolidate and direct the preservation interests of individuals. George B. Dorr was an influential member of both groups, and by 1900 had bought land and built a road on the east side of the Great Meadow where he envisioned a series of native plant exhibits he named the wild gardens. 1909, in an area nestled between the Great Meadow and the Tarn, Dorr purchased a natural spring and ten acres of surrounding land to prevent its development as a commercial bottling operation. Dorr then constructed a structure over the spring, called the spring canopy, as well as small open water feature, Cultural Landscapes Inventory Page 3 of 138 Sieur de Monts Spring Acadia National Park named the spring pool. He also inscribed the names "Sieur de Monts Spring" and the "Sweet Waters of Acadia" on several boulders. Sieur de Monts was the French nobleman commissioned by King Henry IV in the 1600s to establish French dominion of a vast area of land called "Acadia.") In the 1910s, Sieur de Monts Spring became one of the foundation stones of Acadia National Park. While the HCTPR had protected more than 5,000 acres on Mount Desert Island by 1913, Dorr and others lobbied for long-term protection of the lands through the federal government. To strengthen their case to the government, Dorr began developing the spring area as a hub for the future park, and with the Bar Harbor VIA constructed several memorial trails and other garden paths to connect it with the surrounding mountains. This effort was successful, as over 6,000 acres of HCTPR lands became part of the Sieur de Monts National Monument on July 8, 1916. Dorr was named the park's first superintendent. On February 16, 1919, the monument became Lafayette National Park, and on January 19, 1929 the park's name was changed to Acadia National Park. Notably, Dorr's Sieur de Monts Spring parcel and lands in the Great Meadow were not included in the monument's 1916 boundaries. In a move aimed at maintaining control over their development, Dorr instead transferred these lands to his Wild Gardens of Acadia Corporation for donation to the park at a later date. By .1918, he had constructed a spring building and picnic house, and landscaped the open glade around the canopy and pool with turf, trees, and shrubs, creating a picturesque scene surrounded by mature woodlands and rugged mountains. He also improved access to the site with construction of Hemlock Road through the glade, and in time other short roads and a loop road. Dorr also began work on his wild gardens exhibits in the spring area and throughout the Great Meadow. In 1928, the Lafayette National Park Museum of Stone Age Antiquities [Abbe Museum] constructed a small trailside museum building between the spring canopy and the Tarn. By 1929, several motor roads funded by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. were complete or under construction in the park. With reaction to these projects generally favorable, Rockefeller began planning a larger system of scenic roadways from the mountaintops to the coasts, by way of the Sieur de Monts Spring area. To settle a disagreement between himself and Superintendent Dorr about the location of this route and an entrance road at the spring, Rockefeller brought in the Olmsted Brothers landscape architectural firm of Brookline, Massachusetts, for consultation. Numerous plans and studies of the different motor road routes were prepared in subsequent months, with the Olmsted firm favoring Dorr's proposed route on the eastern sides of the Great Meadow, the spring area, and the Tarn over Rockefeller's western routes over the same areas. This route became part of a fourteen-mile motor road proposal announced to the public in 1930, but criticism from some summer residents on the overall plan, and especially its route through the picturesque gorge, inclined Rockefeller to withdraw his $4 million offer to pay for it. However, because of strong support from year-round residents and the NPS, the offer was reinstated the following year. Rockefeller also insisted, and Dorr finally agreed, that Dorr's lands at Sieur de Monts Spring and the Great Meadow would be transferred to Rockefeller, who would then gift them to the park. These transfers occurred in 1930. In 1931, the lands encompassing the Tarn were transferred from the HCTPR to the U.S. Government. It was around this time that the Olmsted firm, and others within the NPS, also began raising concerns Cultural Landscapes Inventory Page 4 of 138 Sieur de Monts Spring Acadia National Park about Dorr's development of Sieur de Monts Spring and in particular its many roads. In 1929-1930, the Olmsted firm prepared several design studies aimed at simplifying and improving the circulation system. However, with the country in the grips of the Great Depression, little work occurred at the spring until the Roosevelt Administration's New Deal programs in 1933 directed labor and funding to the national parks. From 1934 to 1935, the CCC worked extensively in and around Sieur de Monts Spring, improving roads and trails, thinning and pruning vegetation, installing new plantings and grass, and building a trout pool. However, the biggest change did not come until 1937-1938 when Benjamin Breeze, the park's resident landscape architect, prepared a plan that improved Dorr's loop road and designed a new turnaround spur, parking lot, and sidewalks. The plan was much like the 1930 Olmsted plan, abandoning Hemlock Road through the site and the interconnecting short roads, and replacing them with turf and plantings to improve the views across the glade. Plans were also drawn for a new spring building/apartment, terrace, and restroom, and Dorr's old buildings were removed. All of these projects followed the NPS Rustic Design style and its emphasis on using natural materials in built features and integrating them with the natural surroundings. They were completed by the CCC and the Public Works Administration between 1939 and 1942, the year the CCC camps were closed because of World War II. Concurrent with the planning and construction work at the spring was the transfer of the Sieur de Monts Spring and Great Meadow lands from Rockefeller to the U.S. Government in 1935-1936, and the construction of Kebo Mountain Road and Kebo Mountain Road Extension by the NPS and the Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Public Roads (BPR) from 1936 to 1940. These two segments of Rockefeller's motor road system were funded through a 1935 appropriation and traversed the north and east sides of the Great Meadow before turning east, thus abandoning the controversial motor road route through the gorge. The project required the elevation of Otter Creek Road over the motor road and a redesign of the existing town access road to the loop road at Sieur de Monts Spring. Another access road was built to connect the loop road to the motor road. Together, these roads formed a Y-intersection at the loop road. As part of the Otter Creek realignment, an overlook and parking area were developed at the north end of the Tarn, near an abandoned gravel pit that had earlier been partially replanted with trees. George B. Dorr died in 1944, and aerial photographs show that by this time his wild gardens in the Great Meadow had fallen into disuse. In August 1947 a memorial plaque was dedicated to him at the cleared site of his old spring building. Two months later, the "Bar Harbor Fire" burned 17,128 acres of land on Mount Desert Island, including 8,750 acres in the park. The fire destroyed the new spring building and restroom, and damaged the spring canopy and Dorr memorial. Footbridges and other vegetation were also damaged or destroyed, but the Abbe Museum survived. The following year, the park repaired the spring canopy and by 1949 had rebuilt the spring building/apartment [the Nature Center] and restroom in the same locations and using the same NPS Rustic Design style as the CCC structures. A tool shed was also constructed east of the restroom page 5of 138. sadespue Before Spring gives way to Summer, we might pause to reflect on the centennial of what many consider to be the heart of Acadia National Park. Many are familiar with events in the spring of 1909 that George B. Dorr recounted in The Story of Acadia National Park. At the foot of the mountain that today bears Dorr's name, a "wonderfully placed" spring was at risk of being developed commercially. Attorney Albert Harry Lynam learned of the imminent sale to take place on the village green at noon. Fifteen minutes before the deadline he tracked down Mr. Dorr. With "but two or three minutes to spare," Dorr secured the option to purchase property he named after the founder of Acadia, the Sieur de Monts. Fed by a constant flow of clean water, Dorr later described the Sieur de Monts Spring as "one of the foundation stones on which the future park was built." The property was not inexpensive. Title was taken to 30 acres at the Sieur de Monts Spring for $5,000. According to documentation in the Sawtelle Research Center at park headquarters, in the months ahead Dorr cleared the area and shaped the ground into shell-like concave basin. Over the external source of the springwater the future park superintendent raised an octagonal structure with a tiled roof of old Florentine design. A glass plate was placed over the spring enabling visitors to see the water gushing out, though a pipe carried water to a location where the public could sample it. Beside it was etched on a large granite stone the phrase "The Sweet Waters of Acadia." Despite no small number of threats to its integrity over the years, the Sieur de Monts Spring "symbolizes the enthusiasm and spirit of many of the early twentieth century summer residents who worked to preserve and protect the natural and historic values of Mount Desert Island." Editorial sent to Mount Desert Islander May 27, 2009 Revele tt Epts Ph.D. The Memorials of Acadia National Park Page 7 of 11 *Footnotes: 1 GPS coordinates of the slab: N44° 21.844 W068° 12.251' 2 Bar Harbor Times, 9/18/1915; p. 1. 3 Bar Harbor Times, 10/21/1916; p. 7. Posted by Don Lenahan at 11:03 AM No comments: Post a Comment Comment as: Select profile Publish Preview Newer Post Home Older Post Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) http://acadiamemorials.blogspot.com/2012/12/acadia-national-parks-discarded-sweet.html 2/26/2014 The Memorials of Acadia National Park Page 1 of 11 Share 0 More Next Blog Create Blog Sign In 856.1908 MEMORI HCMX PATHMAKER This blog highlights the memorials of Acadia National Park. Some of the memorials CO establish the Park. Others honor people who cherished this beautiful area. The blog alsc Acadia NP. No part of this blog may be reproduced without the author's permission. Monday, December 3. 2012 About Acadia National Park's Discarded "Sweet Waters of Acadia" Slab There is a section in my book, The Memorials of Acadia National Park, called Miscellaneous Engravings. One of those engravings, on page 88, is a granite slab with English and French inscriptions. It is located at an isolated spot in Acadia NP's Sieur de Monts woods, away from all paths, roads and people. *1 Blog A 20 http://acadiamemorials.blogspot.com/2012/12/acadia-national-parks-discarded-sweet.htmp 2/26/2014 Page 2 of 11 The Memorials of Acadia National Park 20 20 The Memorials of Acadia National Park Page 3 of 11 Eaux Douces slab Sieur de Monts Spring 0.24 miles Dorr memorial pool spring house The 4.5x3-foot semicircularly shaped slab has the French words EAUX DOUCES DE L'ACADIE around its upper circumference and its translation SWEET WATERS OF ACADIA horizontally below. http://acadiamemorials.blogspot.com/2012/12/acadia-national-parks-discarded-sweet.ht: 2/26/2014 The Memorials of Acadia National Park Page 4 of 11 DATE When I asked about it a few years ago, Park personnel did not know why the slab was in the woods but suggested it might have been discarded there. Perhaps. Recent research has led me to discover the slab's original location, however. In 1915 the Bar Harbor Times published that the Sieur de Monts Spring Company, a Maine corporation headed by George B. Dorr, was completing construction of three buildings at Sieur de Monts: a spring cover house, a bottling house and a reception room building. Between the spring cover house and the other two buildings, the article detailed, was "a deep rock-enclosed pool about which will be planted ferns, irises and other native greenery. Close beside the pool will be set a tablet bearing an old French description of the region's drinking water -- Eaux Douces de L'Acadie, with its English translation below, Sweet Waters of Acadia -- while stepping stones will lead out into the center of the pool that anyone passing by may drink of the waters as they boil freshly up."*2 In a subsequent Times article the reception room building was described as a small- framed office building. It confirmed, "... at its threshold is a large flat stone on which is the inscription: 'Sweet waters of Acadia,' which is a quotation from Marc Lescarbot, a [French, C. 1570 - 1641] poet and writer of Sieur de Monts' time, who wrote of their voyage to these places."*3 Today, the bottling and reception room http://acadiamemorials.blogspot.com/2012/12/acadia-national-parks-discarded-sweet.htm 2/26/2014 The Memorials of Acadia National Park Page 5 of 11 buildings are no MAINE. longer standing at Sieur de Monts. Just the spring cover house and the Park's nature center building are there, on opposite sides of the pool. Sieur de Monts Spring House with bottling house in background C. 1930 Source: Maine Historical Society Though the slab's original location is now known, nagging questions remain: a. Why is it not at the pool? Possibly it was because Dorr wanted a more prominent stone to tout the Sweet Waters of Acadia. In 1915, the boulder with the words "Sweet Waters of Today with Park's nature center building in background Acadia" that now is before the spring cover house was not there. When it was installed, it might have replaced the much smaller slab. b. Why discard the slab in the woods? It is very close to the ruins of what might have been a granite structure and a sizeable pile of Macadam. Nearby is a network of old roads. One of these, Meadow Road, led from Bar Harbor's Ledgelawn Avenue, cutting straight through the swampy east side of Great Meadow. The slab lies at its south end. Another old road, http://acadiamemorials.blogspot.com/2012/12/acadia-national-parks-discarded-sweet.html 2/26/2014 The Memorials of Acadia National Park Page 6 of 11 in a direct line with Meadow Road, led south from the Macadam pile. While the nature of the past enterprise there is not known, the inscription on the slab might provide a clue. Acadia NP is preparing for its 100th anniversary in 2016. It is also the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service. Already the landscape of Sieur de Monts is changing in anticipation. DE MENTS Long-needed Sieur de Monts Pool then cleanup has Source: Penobscot Marine Museum occurred in the area of the spring house and the nature center. Unwanted bushes, weeds and small trees have been removed from the pool's perimeter and the Dorr memorial. The nearby Wild Gardens of Acadia are once more looking highly professional and very attractive. Perhaps as part of the restoration project, the Park will return the century-old slab to its historic location beside the pool where, once again, it will be at the Sweet Waters of Acadia it proclaims. Sieur de Monts Pool today http://acadiamemorials.blogspot.com/2012/12/acadia-national-parks-discarded-sweet.html 2/26/2014 7. of CLIPTION (Check One) Excellent Good Fair Deteriorated Ruins Unexposed CONDITION (Check One) (Check One) Altered Unaltered Moved Original Sir, DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE Sieur de Monts Spring was originally a large spring at the souther end of Great Meadow. George B. Dorr took an option on purchasing the owners and in spring 1909 did acquire it for $5,000. After cleaning it out he shaped the ground into a shell-like concave basin. Over spring itself he built an octagonal, tiled roof cover house of an old Florentine design. Dorr placed a glass plate over the spring enabling visitors to see the water gushing out. A pipe carried the water away to where the public could drink ofiit. Dorr also carved upon a granite rock nearby the legend- - The Sweet Waters of Acadia. He named the spring Sieur de Monts in honor of the French nobleman who received a grant Henry IV of the North American coast encompassing New England and the Maritime Provinces of Canada. To the entire region De Monts gave the name Acadia. The present appearance of the area is little changed. 177 B. SIGNIFICANCE expo PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) Pre-Columbian : 16th Century 18th Century 20th Century ginal Site 15th Century 17th Century 19th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) :he southern AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) sing it from Aboriginal Education Political Urban Planning er cleaning Prehistoric Engineering Religion/Phi- Other (Specify) Over the Historic Industry losophy if an old Agriculture Invention Science : enabling Axchitecture Landscape Sculpture ter away Art Architecture Social/Human 1.a granite Commerce Literature itarian L the spring Communications Military Theater grant from Conservation Music Transportation ! and the STATEMENT aF,SIGNIFICANCE gave the The work of Dorr on the spring is symptomatic of the interest shown E by many of the summer residents of the island in preserving and protecting Z E the natural or historic values of the island. Sieur de Monts Spring is O also, in a sense, a memorial to George B. Dorr, who more than any other individual can be called the father of Acadia National Park. See Chapter Z 5 for a discussion of Dorr's contribution toward the park. 5 U T U R r U n S Z o E Z E S S 178 Sieur de Monts Pool Springs Back - Friends of Acadia Page 1 of 5 SIEUR DE MONTS POOL SPRINGS BACK Like 0 SIEUR DE MONTS POOL SPRINGS BACK By Judy Hazen Connery, Acadia National Park Natural Resource Specialist The condition of the Sieur de Monts spring pool shouldn't have surprised me, given that our "landscaping crew" had long ago been reduced by budget cuts to a "mowing crew" and was barely able to keep up with cutting the park's many lawns, fields, and roadsides- much less weed and nurture landscape plantings. Still, I wasn't prepared for what I saw back in 2010: the focal point of the Sieur de Monts cultural landscape was WAY out of focus-in fact, it was completely obscured in a tangle of exotic invasive plants. Visitors strolled by, completely unaware that the pool even existed. "George Dorr, who SO loved this place, must be turning over in his grave," I thought to myself. Indeed, looking to the left I saw his memorial stone was covered with tall brush, the carefully placed and tended native plantings as hidden from view as his beloved pool. What https://friendsofacadia.org/sieur-de-monts-pool-springs-back/ 8/5/2017 Sieur de Monts Pool Springs Back - Friends of Acadia Page 2 of 5 other treasures would soon be overrun with bittersweet vines, thorny barberry bushes, and Japanese knotweed? "I'm not sure what we can do, but we have to do something." Thankfully, there were many others who thought the same way. Although it's taken five years, the skills and hard work of many National Park Service (NPS) and Friends of Acadia (FOA) professionals and volunteers, and funding from FOA donors and park entrance fee revenues, something has indeed been done! The park's curatorial staff found photos of what the landscape looked like soon after it was installed and those photos served as references for rehabilitation. The exotic plant management team began the on-site work by carefully managing the many exotic plants and woody natives. Once the invasive plants were removed and environmental permits obtained, the park's wildlife biologist electro- shocked the pool and re-located several sizable trout downstream before the pool was dewatered by the park firefighting staff. Immediately, the trails crew installed erosion control fencing to protect the fragile soils along the stream and worked their amazing magic by finding and re-placing all the original stones that had slid into the water, including the "island stone" shown in the historic photos. Meanwhile, FOA staff were busy securing a grant from the National Parks Conservation Association to support revegetation, while park interpretive rangers and volunteers at the Nature Center and tour bus guides explained the story of the historic spring pool to questioning visitors, and why and how it was being rehabilitated. Finally, https://friendsofacadia.org/sieur-de-monts-pool-springs-back 8/5/2017 Sieur de Monts Pool Springs Back - Friends of Acadia Page 3 of 5 after the last stone was re-set, non-historic stairways were removed, and the Dorr Memorial weeded, we have begun the work of re-planting. We are using native plants that are commercially available for landscaping that match the size and structure as the original, and sometimes invasive, herbaceous perennials that were first installed. Given many years of science, our society better understands than Mr. Dorr did the threat invasive garden plants can pose to park ecosystems. We hope that the landscape will complement the Wild Gardens of Acadia and demonstrate that native plants can be a beautiful, and easy-care, addition to home gardens. Plant labels are being made and installed that will identify the plants and provide information about their sunlight and soil requirements. Finally, small signs will inform visitors that these are native plants, and how natives help protect the environment. The next challenge will be finding a way to maintain the landscape over time. I'm confident that we can do it. Like this project-where there is a will, there HAS to be a way, if we all work together. By the time our 100th anniversary arrives next July, George Dorr's spirit will be celebrating the landscape stewardship through partnership that is alive and well at Sieur de Monts-what he considered to be the "Heart of Acadia." https://friendsofacadia.org/sieur-de-monts-pool-springs-back/ 8/5/2017