Seawall Campground, Acadia National Park, Hancock County, ME

"New Deal-era Recreational Demonstration Project funding allowed the park to purchase of 8,000 'sub-marginal' acres on the western side of Mount Desert Island and the campground plans moved there instead [of at Hulls Cove]. Survey work began in November of 1935 and by June of 1936 Works Projects Administration (WPA) crews began working on a public campground and picnic area at Seawall. The initial development of Seawall campground consisted of two separate one way loops (Loop A and Loop B) featuring parking spurs and campsites laid out using Meinecke's system of campground development [the NPS standard in the 1930s and 40s]. Loops A and B were not designed to accommodate trailers. The original plans placed a latrine/washroom/shower facility at the center of each loop. The original plans did speculate that future loops may need to be added in the future for trailers, though funding was initially not enough to construct either. In 1937, Loops A and B were constructed along with the first new comfort stations were constructed in Loop A using Emergency Conservation Works funds (ECW) along with fireplaces and heavy timber picnic tables. The comfort station in Loop B was constructed between 1938 and 1939. With the onset of war, a new Naval radio station was constructed at Seawall in 1942" (National Park Service. "Historic Campgrounds" at Acadia National Park [https://www.nps.gov/acad/learn/historyculture/historic-campgrounds.htm : accessed 03 March 2025]).

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U.S. Geologic Survey (USGS). “Archive database of 2021” at U.S. Geographic Information Names System (GNIS) ( https://www.usgs.gov/us-board-on-geographic-names/download-gnis-data : accessed 31 May 2024).