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Acadia National Park is a national park of the United States located along the mid-section of the Maine coast, southwest of Bar Harbor.The park includes about half of Mount Desert Island, part of the Isle au Haut, the tip of the Schoodic Peninsula, and portions of sixteen smaller outlying islands.
This is a complete List of National Historic Landmarks in Maine. The United States National Historic Landmark program is operated under the auspices of the National Park Service , and recognizes structures, districts, objects, and similar resources according to a list of criteria of national significance. [ 1 ]
The Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge is a 9,125-acre (37 km 2) National Wildlife Refuge made up of several parcels of land along 50 miles (80 km) of Maine's southern coast.
An eighteenth-century settler in the area was George Kezar. Kezar's hunting ability became the a subject of local folklore. One tradition says Kezar survived hand-to-hand combat with a bear, another that he sent a pack of wolves "scampering towards Canada" by hanging a bell around the neck of one of them. [1]
Bear Island is an 11-acre (4.5 ha) island in Maine, United States. It is one of the five islands of the Town of Cranberry Isles. The island is located just off Northeast Harbor and south of Mount Desert Island. Bear Island Light, on the western end of the island, was built in 1889 and staffed until 1981.
The Maine Coastal Island Registry (CIR) catalogs 3,166 of these coastal islands, along with some notable inland freshwater islands, such as Frye Island in Sebago Lake. According to the most recent CIR data, 1,846 islands are registered to private owners, while 204 islands, which contain four or more structures, are exempt from registration.
On March 19, 1897, The Maine legislature passed a bill requiring hunting guides to register with the state. Maine registered 1316 guides in that first year. The first Registered Maine Guide was a woman, Cornelia Thurza Crosby, or "Fly Rod Crosby", as she was popularly known. In addition to being its first licensed guide, she promoted Maine's ...