Chronological Events 1836-37 - Bridge over the Narrows constructed; cost about $5,000. 1604 - Isle des Monts Desert seen by Champlain in an exploring voyage along the coast with Sieur de Monts for Henry IV. 150 th 1837 - Meeting-house at Center erected. 1838 - Seaville incorporated. 1848 - Mount Desert divided and town of Mansel incorporated. Name changed to Tremont. 1613 - Jesuit Father Quentin, lay brother Gilbert du Thet 1852 - Somesville meeting-house built. and forty eight settlers landed on Mount Desert at 1858 - First church bell rang July 4, Somesville. Fernald's Point. Settlement called St. Sauveur. 1869 - The Tremont-Ellsworth telegraph company 1613 - Settlement broken up by Virginians, commander incorporated. Samuel Argall. 1876 - The Congregational Church of Somesville. 1617 - Hills of Mount Desert seen by Capt. John Smith 1878 - Episcopal Chapel built at Bar Harbor. and marked on his famous map of New England. MAINE 1820 -1970 - 1881 - Saint Sylvia's, Bar Harbor, the first Catholic church 1658 - Cadillac and wife first to spend honeymoon on 9887 built. M.D.I. 1886 - Nov. 4, first paper published on island by The Bar 1688 - Census of Governor Edmund Andros giving Harbor Press Co., "The Bar Harbor Record." inhabitants of Acadia and listing among others, 1889 - Union meeting-house at Northeast Harbor Cadolick and wife. dedicated. 1692 - Cadillac drew up a report in which he describes the 1905 - Southwest Harbor set off from Tremont and island of Mt. Desert. 1692-96 - Mount Desert used as a place of rendezvous for 1919 incorporated. 1908 - First National Park in the East; The Bowl and the French expeditions against New England. Beehive tract become the nucleus of Lafayette 1740 - Ship Grand Design bound for Pennsylvania wrecked National Park. on Long Ledge. Ship's company escaped and landed 1921 - Marine Biological Laboratory founded. at Ship Harbor, but many died of exposure. 1928 - Dorr Station named Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial 1761 - Abraham Somes of Gloucester, Mass. and family Laboratory. and James Richardson and family landed at George 1. Somes' Point. Points of Interest 1762 -- The General Court of Massachusetts granted to Governor Francis Bernard, one half of the island of Mount Desert. 1774 - First marriage on Island - David Wasgatt and Hamilton Animal Rachel Richardson. Behavior Laboratory 1787 - The Legislature of Massachusetts granted to Hulls Cove Gregoir Bartolemy and Maria Theresa de Gregoire all the Acadia National Park Headquarters lands on Mount Desert that remained in the possession of the state. Sonogee restoration of rocks summer cottage Terminal 1789 - Eden incorporated. 1789 - Mount Desert incorporated and Hancock County Cadillac Sunrise Walsh photo formed. 1790 - Harmon House built at Southwest Harbor. First Jackson Memorial Laboratory, Sieur de Monts Spring and cancer research school held here. Gardens Acadia 1792 - First church formed on Mount Desert Island. This Robert Abbe Museum Stone Age antiquities Eastern Woodland Indians exhibits was organized as the Mt. Desert Congo Church. 1796 - Eden set off from Mount Desert and incorporated as a town. DAWN of AMERICA Bridge over Northeast Creek. Otter Creek 1797 - First meeting-house in Eden built at Hull's Cove. on Site of first modern sewage treatment plant Desert Island 1809 - First vessel, the Schooner Hazard, Israel Higgins, Seal Cove Auto Museum Richard Paine, Curator Mattern Enterprises, master, Samuel Hadlock, owner, built at Eden. 1812-14 - Second War with England. Mount Desert visited by British. 1814 - Battle of Norwood's Cove. 1821 - First post office formed at Somesville. 1823 - First Sunday School at Seal Cove and Goose Cove. 1828 - Light house built at Baker's Island, Wm. Gilley appointed keeper. 1830 - The town of Cranberry Isles incorporated. In Memory of vind Salisbury Cove The island of Mount Capt. Joseph Hopkins, 1788 Desert is included in the region which was the earliest Our Island Pioneers Eden Hulls Cove occupied in New England. John Thomas, 1770 John Hamor, 1768 Indian Point Jesse and David Higgins, 1778 Duck Brook Ezra Young, 1774 Bar Island Clarks Cove David Rodick, 1797 Gideon Mayo, 1778 Bar Harbor Goose Cove Wm. Nutter and Enoch Wentworth Ebenezer Salisbury, 1776 Earliest inhabitants of eastern Maine were of the Algonquin Nation. Somesville East of the Saco River they were Abraham Somes and James Richardson, 1761 called the Abenaki, "the people of the place where the sky begins to look white in the morning." Schooner Head Wm. Lynam, 1789 Pretty Marsh Daniel Smith, 1801 Ephriam Pray, 1784 Otter Creek Sieur de Monts, sailing for France D. Bracey in 1604, sailed into Frenchman's Bay under the pilot, Samuel de Champlain. Beech Hill Davis Wasgatt, 1774 Champlain mapped the coastline and gave the Island its name, "Isle de Mont Desert." Seal Harbor John Clement, 1809 Seal Cove 1st public burying ground, Wm. Heath, 1784 Southwest Harbor Ezra Dodge, south side Seal Cove Southwest Harbor William Gilley, 1784 acreening Sutton. Island Sutton Island Wm. Sutton, 1755 FOR FURTHER HISTORICAL INFORMATION CONTACT Islesford Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce John Stanley, 1770 Mount Desert Chamber of Commerce Southwest Harbor Chamber of Commerce Jesup Memorial Library, Bar Harbor Jonathan Great and Cranberry Bunker, 1761 Baker Island West Tremont Memorial Library Gotts Island Wm. Gilley, 1812 Southwest Harbor Free Library Daniel Gott, 1789 Manset Library M.D.I. Sesquicentennial Committee Northeast Harbor Library Mrs. Jeremiah Jellison, Chairman Islesford Museum Library Swan's Island Mrs. Kenneth White, Secretary Bass Harbor Memorial Library Settled by Swan in 1785 Mrs. Carl Dolliver Bass Harbor Seal Harbor Library Mrs. Oscar Cole Richardson side Rev. Bradford Payne Somesville Library