From collection Place List - History Trust
"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.
