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Mount Desert Island (MDI; [4] French: Île des Monts Déserts) in Hancock County, Maine, is the largest island off the coast of Maine.With an area of 108 square miles (280 km 2) [5] it is the 52nd-largest island in the United States, the sixth-largest island in the contiguous United States, and the second-largest island on the Eastern Seaboard, behind Long Island and ahead of Martha's Vineyard.
The Fernald Point Prehistoric Site is an archaeological site in Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island on the central coast of Maine.The principal feature of the site is a shell midden, whose excavation has yielded both historic artifacts and evidence of human occupation to at least 1000 BCE.
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.
Bar Harbor is a resort town on Mount Desert Island in Hancock County, Maine, United States.As of the 2020 census, its population is 5,089. [3] The town is home to the College of the Atlantic, Jackson Laboratory, and MDI Biological Laboratory.
Cadillac Mountain is located on Mount Desert Island, within Acadia National Park, in the U.S. state of Maine.With an elevation of 1,530 feet (470 meters), its summit is the highest point in Hancock County and the highest within 25 miles (40 km) of the Atlantic shoreline of the North American continent between the Cape Breton Highlands, Nova Scotia, and peaks in Mexico. [3]
Mar. 8—The interim superintendent for the Mount Desert Island school system has been hired to become its next long-term superintendent. Michael Zboray most recently served as principal at ...
Blackwoods Campground is located on the east side of Mount Desert Island, off Maine State Route 3 in Acadia National Park.Construction on the site was begun by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in 1935, and reaching its present appearance (with modest alterations since) around 1961, with the completion of Loop B.
Beginning in about 1890, Mount Desert Island became a summer resort haven for a number of wealthy families, including the Rockefellers, Carnegies, and Vanderbilts. Despite their efforts to keep the island free of motor vehicles, their presence was authorized across the whole island by 1915.