Mount Desert Island, Hancock County, ME

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Mount Desert Island, Hancock County, ME
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Arno B. Cammerer to Gist Blair Letter, July 28, 1927
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A letter from John A. Peters to Senator George Wharton Pepper. Peters urges Pepper to state support for proposed road construction in Lafayette National Park at a scheduled hearing with the Secretary of the Interior. Peters goes onto to ad…
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Arno B. Cammerer to George B. Dorr Letter, February 28, 1927 (1)
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Charles W. Eliot to Gist Blair Letter, July 11, 1927
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Charles W. Eliot writes to the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association president, Gist Blair, regarding the delay of the arrival of the National Park Service's landscape architect at Lafayette National Park. Eliot was to work with the g…
George Wharton Pepper to Harold Peabody Letter, March 8, 1924
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Barrington Moore to Harold Peabody Letter, March 14, 1924
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Fred C. Lynam to Frank B. Rowell Letter, March 11, 1924
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A letter from Fred C. Lynam to the secretary of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association, Frank B. Rowell. Lynam disagrees with Senator George Wharton Pepper's objection to the proposed road construction project in Lafayette National…
John A. Peters to Frank B. Rowell Letter, March 21, 1924
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A letter in which John A. Peters urges Frank B. Rowell to change his position regarding the proposed road construction on Mount Desert Island. Peters refers to enclosed copies of letters arguing for the proposed project to continue. Peopl…