Southwest Harbor, Hancock County
County · Incorporated · Prominent Islands · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Military Records · General Resources · Bibliography
County
Hancock County (set off from Lincoln County in 1789)
Incorporated
1905 from part of Tremont
Prominent Islands
Greening Island
Villages, Locations and Settlements
Manset, Seawall, Southwest Harbor, Wonderland
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Cranberry Isles, Frenchboro, Mount Desert, Tremont
Maps
Maine Historical Maps: Southwest Harbor
Military Records
World War I Soldiers Index: Southwest Harbor
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Southwest Harbor, Hancock, Maine
FamilySearch Catalog: Mount Desert Island, Hancock, Maine
Official Website: Town of Southwest Harbor
MEGenWeb Project: Mount Desert Island History and Genealogy
Mount Desert Island Cultural History Project
Maine Memory Network: Southwest Harbor
Bibliography
______, Inventory of the town and city archives of Maine: no. 5 Hancock County: the towns of Mt. Desert (Mount Desert, Bar Harbor, Cranberry Isles, Seaville, Tremont, Southwest Harbor) (Portland, Me.: Maine Historical Records Survey, 1938)
______, Directory of Bar Harbor, Cranberry Isles, Ellsworth--Mount Desert, Southwest Harbor, Maine (Portland, Me. : Fred L. Tower Co., 1928- )
______, Manning's Bar Harbor, Ellsworth, Mount Desert, Southwest Harbor, Tremont and Trenton (Maine) directory (Springfield, Mass. : H.A. Manning Co., 1931)
Lawton, Jordan & Maddox, comp., The Island of Mount Desert register with the Cranberry Isles, 1909-10 (Auburn, Me. : Lawton-Jordan Co., [1909])
Long, Alice MacDonald, ed., with Thomas Huston Roderick and Ralph Hamilton Long, Vital records of Mount Desert Island, Maine, and nearby islands, 1776-1820 (Rockport, Me.: Picton Press, 1990)
Thornton, Mrs. Seth S., Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine (1938)
Street, George Edward, Mount Desert: a history (Boston, Mass.; New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1926)
Vining, Thomas F., comp., Cemeteries of Cranberry Isles and the towns of Mount Desert Island : a record of dates on gravestones in cemeteries of Bar Harbor, Cranberry Isles, Mount Desert, Southwest Harbor, and Tremont (Bar Harbor, Me. : V. F. Thomas Co., c2000)
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