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Balance Rock, Shore Path, Bar Harbor, Hancock County, ME
"Balance Rock still remains along the Shore Path at the foot of Grant's Park, also known Albert's Meadow. This erratic granite, a type of from the sedimentary strata it rests upon. Geologists believe that the huge boulder was left behind by a retreating glacier." - Bygone Bar Harbor: A Postcard Tour of Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park by Earl Brechlin, p. 20,2002.
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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).
“1887 Map of Mount Desert Island, Maine,” Southwest Harbor Public Library, (https://swhpl.digitalarchive.us/items/show/7597 ; accessed February 3, 2025). Item 2673. Annotatioin by Southwest Harbor Public Library.
