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Monday, November 16, 2020

VANDALISM IN ACADIA NATIONAL PARK

 We do not support defacement of any sort in the National Parks, including Acadia National Park, there simply is no place for it, period.  The types of vandalism I have been reading about online has to stop, there is no justifiable excuse anyone can make for carrying on such behavior and clearly the full weight of the law needs to be applied when the subject is caught.  The person randomly spray painting both abandoned trails as well as official trails needs to be brought to justice and I strongly encourage anyone witnessing such behavior to immediately report it to the National Park Service at (207) 288-3338 or by waiving down a Park Ranger;  be the eyes and ears of the Park Service that helps bring  this illegal activity to an end.

I would also encourage you to report any illegal activity involving illegal camping within the park, a few years ago i came upon an illegal tent site on Sunset Hill, took down the GPS of the location and reported it, and years earlier I located an illegal tent site along the Park Loop road and reported it as well.  While at first it may not seem that big of a deal, illegal camp sites can lead to littering as well as fires caused by careless handling of a illegal camp fire;  any illegal activity should be reported in a timely fashion.

Illegal Tent Site I Discovered On Sunset Hill



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Sunday, November 15, 2020

THE SECRET BEHIND SIEUR DE MONTS SPRING

 One day I happened upon an old letter that was printed in the local paper in the "letters to the editor" section of the paper, and in that letter was some ground shaking revalations and which seemed to shed new light on Sieur de Mont Spring.  That letter writer made a startling claim that sieur de Monts Spring was not a natural wonder as many had hyped it as for many long years, but in fact was man made, created with human hands in a ploy to make the spring a cash making enterprize.  Rediculus and absurd many will say at first, but it was not just any man making this claim, it was an outstanding figure in the community and a man of the cloth, and according to him, only three people knew of the sccret at the Spring and two of those people took their secret to the grave with them.

More on the man making this claim in a bit, for to fully understand what really took place at Sieur de Monts spring, you need to know the rest of the story that led up to the surrounding events at the Spring.  John H. Prescott was the owner of a large area of land known locally as Prescott's Farm.  Mr, Prescott lived on the farm with his sister and not far from the farmstead was a spring.  Mr. Prescott and his sister were hard up for money and Mr. Prescott came up with a plan, he would turn his spring into a Spring Water and soda bottling business and set to work enlarging his little spring, digging it much deeper and wider and squaring off its walls upon which he placed tiles.  Around the spring he placed large granite blocks to frame the spring and named it Red rock Spring.  A bottling plant was constructed and soon Mr. Prescott was producing bottles of spring water and bottled soda, and for a time the business was doing well, in part because of the salesman Mr. Prescott proved he could be.  He told the papers his site was like that of Eden and claimed his spring water was unlike any of the other spring waters out there because unlike their water, his spring water passed through miles of sand which acted as a natural filter.  He would also make claims that his spring water was better for you because it could cure you of certain ills, but in truth other spring water companies back in the day also made such untrue claims in an effort to boost sales.  The problem Mr. Prescott faced was just that, others were making many of the same claims he was making, and over time business began to slow, and once again Mr. Prescott and his sister were facing finacial troubles, he had to act, but how?

Mr. Prescott recalled how there was two springs on the other end of his property and decided to take a bold move and pull off, if successful, one of the biggest scams ever pulled back in those days.  He went to work secretly digging one of those springs deep and made it much wider, but this time Mr. Prescott had learned his lesson from the first spring, and made certain this spring would be so large it would be called a wonder of nature.  But Mr. Prescott ran into an unexpected problem, while in the process of enlarging this new spring, two people walked upon his work, passing through the area looking for a place to fish, and this encounter took place in the summer of 1907.

Charles S. Mitchell and a relative approached Mr. Prescott and inquired as to what he was doing, and Mr. Prescott confided in them and laid out his plans, stating that he was making one spring deeper and wider and plugging up a second nearby spring to force its waters into the first spring.  He would keep the walls and floor of this spring rough and claim it was a wonder of nature and use that as a selling point for a new spring water and soda company he was going to erect on the site.  That story would stay with Charles S. Mitchell for the rest of his life, as for Mr. Prescott, he did exactly what he laid out that day and soon people were not only coming to the area for spring water and bottled soda, but they were also arriving to view this new spring dubbed an Act of Nature and a wonder to behold.

George B. Dorr and others who wanted to see a National Park created here one day kept an eye on this property, because if they could obtain the land it would be a huge boost to their efforts to establish a National Park.  One can not fault George B. dorr or any of the others back in the day for continuing to promote Sieur de Monts Spring as a Wonder of Nature, because in truth that is exactly what they believed it to be, and Mr. Prescott was not about to tell anyone the truth behind the spring he himself had created.

Acadia National Park began as Sieur de Monts National Monument in 1916 after 5,000 acres in the Sieur de Monts Spring area were donated to the federal government.  In 1919, it became Lafayette National Park, the first national park east of the Mississippi. In 1929, the park name changed to Acadia.  On January 19, 1929, Lafayette National Park was renamed Acadia National Park by an act of Congress.


Below is a newspaper article on Red Rock Spring;


Bar Harbor Record

July 2, 1902


Prescot's Farm Promises To Be A Center Of Attraction


Another commercial enterprise has started at Bar Harbor.  Commercial enterprise, while perfectly correct, is rather a misnomer for the Red Rock Spring Company for that term usually precludes the picturesque, unique and artistic, all of which the surroundings of the Red Rock Spring Company are.

Have you ever been out to Prescott's Farm?  If not you have missed seeing one of the prettiest places on Mount Desert Island.  It is a smaller edition of Robin Hood Park where the horse shows is held and the picturesque beauty of that is and the picturesque beauty of that is famous now the world over.  Prescott's Farm has the same grassy fields surrounded by the same beautiful hills, and it has what Robin Hood Park has not, a crystal spring of pure water charged with a natural gas which causes big glassy bubbles to gather constantly on its sandy bottom and rise slowly in clear, colorless globules to the surface.

The situation of this spring is ideal.  Tall silvery birches bend their carcessing branches above it and the hills all day, throw their protecting shadows over it.  Mr. Prescott has always known of the existence of this spring and jealously guarded it.  It was only the recent financial reverses that have overtaken him and his sister that have induced them to convert it to commercial uses.

When Mr. Prescott once puts his shoulder to the wheel he never turns back, and having made up his mind to make his spring yield him an income he stopped at nothing that would tend to make the business of the Red Rock Spring Company complete in every way.  All his machinery and mechanical devices are the latest.

On Mr. Prescott's farm there is a red granite quarry, from a solid block of this has been fashioned an immense trough which has been placed in the building house.  It is this red rock trough which gives the spring its name.  The red granite is used also as the curbing of the srping itself, but this is as yet in state of incompleteness.  In fact the whole business is an embryonic state and its success problemmaticical, althrough there seems to be no imperfections in the equations and a correct solution may be confidently expected.

At the bottling house the water is got ready for the market which already handles the goods.  It is either put up pure and plain from the spring or charged by the carbonator and made into a sparkling drink.  By mixing with a pure syrup and charging the water is converted into the twinkling of an eye into all sorts of soft drinks, delicious to the palate and perfectly free from all impurities.  If we must drink let us drink from the Red Rock Spring.

If you visit the spring Mr. Prescott will tell you of the pains he has taken to preserve the sanitary condition with which nature had surrounded the place.  The spring has been dug out the depth of nine feet and tiled up with pale blue tiling five feet square, a translucent body of water through which the bubbles before alluded to are continually rising.  Outside this tiling is a layer of cement and than a wall of red granite.  The ground beyond this has been excaved to the depth of the spring twelve feet in all directions and filled in with screened gravel, over this gravel flagging of the granite will be placed and the curb of the spring will also be of red rock.

An attractive well house with big windows is being built, and perhaps "Maud" will be there later to stoop where the cool spring bubbles up to fill for the "Judge" her small tin cup.


Here's to the Red Rock Spring

drink her down, drink her down,

It's the purest spring in town

drink her down, drink her down.


As for that all important letter sent to the local paper, it is as follows;


BAR HARBOR TIMES

JULY 21, 1960


To the Editor;

Visitors at Sieur de Monts Spring may at times wonder about the early history.  One standing on the large flat rock in the brook and watching the water bubble and gorgie from beneath it may think he is beholding a natural event, when in fact, he is looking at the result of human planning and effort.

In the summer of 1907 John Prescott, owner of the property developed the spring at the upper end of the Harding Farm, so called, which was originally known as Red Rock Spring, and later, Mt. Kebo Spring, undertook to do the same thing with what is now the Sieur de Monts Spring.

I learned this quite by accident.  One day in the summer above mentioned I was walking with a friend of my parents through the woods in that section.  As a boy I had fished in the brook that flowed out of the meadow - now known as the tarn - and I knew that area very well.

Near the brook at that time was a small boiling spring with a much larger one several yards away.

As we came into the path off the Seal Harbor Road we heard from the valley below us the sound of horses and a stone drag.  Coming into the clearing at the foot of the hill we found Mr Prescott with a team of horses dragging a large flat rock towards the smaller spring, and learned that he was planning another bottling plant similar to the one at Red Rock (Mt. Kebo).  He told us he was setting that flat rock over the smaller spring in the attempt to force the water back into the larger one which he planned to deepen and enlarge.

The bottling plant, as such, did not prove to be the success had hoped, and in course of time the property passed to other hands and now has been developed into the beauty spot we have today.  But that rock is the same one we saw put in place over 50 years ago.

What we see today is not a freak of nature but a deliberate attempt to improve on what nature has provided.

I can vouch for this as I am the only living person who was present when that stone was set in its present position.

Sincerely,

Rev. Charles S. Mitchell, DD



I did some research which follows on who Rev. Charles S. Mitchell, DD was;


WHO WAS THE REV CHARLES S. MITCHELL


A piece I found in an article in the Bar Harbor Times dated August 2, 1922 states in part;

"Mr. Charles S. Mitchell served Long Island till cold weather, than he moved his family to Bar Harbor and spent the winter assisting in special services at Cranberry Isles, Matinitus, and other places.  It seemed best to locate Mr. Mitchell at Corea where he can be of help in the town of Gouldboro, as there is not a minister in the town."

In the December 6, 1922 Bar Harbor Times, upon the passing of Rev. A.P. MacDonald, who had been the head of the Sea Coast Mission. A piece in that same paper was written by the Rev. Charles S. Mitchell, whose title states the following;

"Rev. A.P. MacDonald;  A word of appreciation by Rev. Charles S. Mitchell, who was for some time associated with Mr. MacDonald as Assistant Missionary."

In a copy of the Bar Harbor Times dated July 26, 1922 an article begins with the following;

"BAR HARBOR MAN IS ORDAINED AT COREA

Charles S. Mitchell after service in Sea Coast Mission is now Baptist Minister.

A council of churches of Hancock County, was called by the church at Corea Wednesday, July 19th, to set apart by ordination to the Baptist ministry, Charles S. Mitchell who has been serving this church for the past two months, after nearly two years in the Sea Coast Mission work."

An article from the Bar Harbor Times in 1915 states that "Charles S. Mitchell expects to enter Gordon Theological School in Boston the middle of next  month."


So the question remains, was Sieur de Monts Spring an act of Nature or an Act of Man?  For me the evidence I have seen to date overweeningly show that Mr. Johm H. Prescott could of easily have pulled this off, and if he did it would be one of the grandest hoaxs ever pulled off concerning a National Park, after all, Sieur de Monts Spring was and continues to be one of the center pieces of Acadia National Park.  

We know what became of Sieur de Monts Spring, regardless of which events you believe, as for Red Rock Spring, it is to this day still in a field, surrounded by brush, its tiled walls gleaming in the sunlight, the large granite blocks still frame the spring, though over time they have slipped from where they once were and one is close to falling into the spring.  The large granite trough mentioned in newspaper articles is still near the site with several holes where pipes ran in and out of it, no article I have found to date states exactly what the purpose of the trough was for but its massive weight would require a major effort to move it today.  

Sieur de Monts Spring




















In this photo you can see some of the tiles that line Red Rock Spring



Red Rock Spring as it appears today



Thursday, October 29, 2020

THE DIFFERENT TRAIL TYPES - SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE

One inquiry I get inquired of over and over is what is the distinction between a abandoned trail  and a phantom  trail, so I chose to do a post trying to clarify the diverse sort of trails there are in Acadia National Park.

Official trails are an incredible beginning point,  these are trails that are very much kept up by the National Park Service and have trail head signs which as a rule contain the name of the path and the distance the path covers. Men like George Bucknam Dorr, Rudolf Ernst Brünnow, Waldron Bates and others helped build many of these trails and when you climb one of these noteworthy routes you are literally following in their footsteps. In Bates case he would go out and walk the forested areas and mountain sides searching out the best course for the path he wanted to create, and an assistant would go with him blazing the path so trail laborers could come in later and develop the real path, we realize this is the manner by which he worked in light of an old  article concerning trail routes  Bates was investigating during his stay at Currin House by the shores of Eagle Lake.

Rudolf Ernst Brünnow  developed the absolute most challenging  trails on Mount Desert Island, trails like the Beehive and Precipice which will test even the most advanced hiker.   Brunnow was, in many eyes,  an expert path designer whose abilities can not be questioned, he had the vision to build an arrangement of supporting trails to help draw adventurers to a portion of the islands most difficult trails, which he achieved  by exploiting a site that was for many years notable to local people as the Great Cave, Brunnow marked out a course to the Great Cave, which was known as the Great Cave Loop, it started at a lower part of the Precipice Trail, advanced toward the Great Cave, at that point proceeded up over the cave along a long series of stone steps, advancing toward the upper segment of the mountain where a little metal scaffold was placed to conect one section of ledge with another before the Great Cave Loop rejoined the Precipice Trail at a spot higher up.  Old stories recount local people advancing up to the Great Cave to have picnics inside the cool cavern to escape the heat of summer days and the territory over the Great Cave may of been the area of an unfortunate passing during the 1800's when two school girls fell from a cliff, one becoming pinned under a boulder died several hours later, the others life was spared by landing in the tiop of a large tree, though she suffered cuts and broken bones.

The Great Cave is an appropreate spot to start discussing abandoned trails inside Acadia National Park, which were once official trails, very much well maintained, and later abandoned, the most celebrated of these deserted trails being the Great Cave. For a long time the location of the Great Cave remained a mystery, but through old maps and articles the mountain began to reveal its secrets.
David Schortmann was the first to locate the site and produce photographs of the Great Cave, days later Matthew Marchon would find the cavern and produce the very first video of the Great Cave and Nick Thorndike gave us the area of a nearly shrouded flight of stairs which revealed the other portion of the Great Cave Loop. Zhanna Galas visited the Great Cave and gave us the primary GPS directions to the Great Cave and we are extremely grateful for that  data and all the data the followers of our site provided, in light of their endeavors the Great Cave is not, at this point lost to time. So as should be obvious in this example, as a rule our supporters take an interest in the documentation process and are an essential participant in our endeavors.  

Those who walk along Rudolf Ernst Brünnow's Orange and Black Trail, so named for his school colors, do so  believing  they have covered the entire trail, but nearly half of the original trail was abandoned for unknown reasons, which included the historical Hanging Steps, huge granite slabs that seem to hang in mid air, a feat created by use of hidden iron rods.  For many years the location of these Hanging Steps, along with the location of the Great Cave, were known to but a very few, thankfully an unnamed source came forward and provided key information for which we are very grateful.

Nobody appears to know precisely why large numbers of once  mainstream trails  were deserted, all of the trails that once lay between Lake Wood and Great Hill were abandoned following the Great Fire of 47, such historic trails as the  Great Hill trail system. the Bracken Trail, the Fern and Royal Fern  trail, the Fawn Pond Trail, the Witch Hole Pond trail and others.

Today there are a number of popular online sites dedicated to keeping the memory of these abandoned trails alive.  The National Park Service can, and does contact map makers to have sites it no longer wants us to find removed from future maps, sites like the Great Cave and more recently Anemone Cave, it was not by accident that one of the most famous and popular caves in all of New England suddenly vanished from maps.

Somebody once asked me what a Ghost Trail is and I can pretty much guarantee you they are not trails that are haunted by ghosts. A true Ghost Trail can show up before you and be easy to follow and suddenly disappear before your eyes; with a little searching the trail once again picks up only to vanish once again, an ideal case of a Ghost trail would be the Bracken Trail, where the only hint of a ghost you will encounter is an old truck hood leaning up against a tree.

A few trails never began as being trails, instances of these are the Stone Arches of Eagle lake, which is more a path then a trail,  and the route the Green Mountain (presently Cadillac Mountain) cog train once took.  It was only natural for locals to reclaim the mountain side once the train company went out of business, and for a good number of years it became a popular route to hike.  I have documented most of the route and have posted GPS figures and done a few videos and it remains one of my favorite hikes, not because of the scenery, but the treasures one encounters along the way, the iron railroad spikes still sticking up out of the granite the long section of built up railway bed, and the only surviving section of rail about two thirds of the way up the mountain side.  I would classify this as a Ghost Trail as well.

We can not talk about trail types without a word on Phantom Trails which were never an official trail, but a trail created by one or more people, and this can not be stated strongly enough, the construction of such trails is illegal and getting caught constructing your own trail can earn you a date in Federal Court.


Example of an abandoned trail;

THE OLD GURNEE TRAIL VIDEO

Example of a Ghost Trail;

BRACKEN GHOST TRAIL VIDEO

Example of a Phantom Trail

GREAT HILL PHANTOM TRAIL VIDEO


                                                   THE GREAT CAVE





                                                     The Bracken Trail


                                Lost Rudolf Ernst Brünnow Work Crew Trail


                                                  Duck Brook Trail


                                                      The Gurnee Trail


                                       The Green Mountain Railway Path


                                       Anemone Cave - The Devil's Oven


                                               Bar Island Glacial Trail


Wednesday, October 28, 2020

ACADIA NATIONAL PARK ON CANVAS

 

Jordan Pond and The Bubbles
Acadia National Park



Eagle Lake
Acadia National Park



The Jesup Path
Acadia National Park



The Jesup Trail
Acadia National Park



Lake Wood
Acadia National Park



Stone Bridge
Acadia National Park


                                               Wild Gardens Of Acadia



Wild Gardens Of Acadia 


                                                             The Pond



Duck Brook


Duck At Dorr Pond



Duck At Dorr Pond


Duck In Flight



Fawn


                                                             Two Deer



Wold Turkeys




Lighthouse Road - Bass Harbor
Acadia National Park




Homans Trail
Acadia National Park



Jordon Pond House
Acadia National Park



Deer



Bar Island
Acadia National Park



Taking Flight



Bubble Pond
Acadia National Park



Baby Fawn



Park Loop Road
Acadia National Park


                                            Duck Brook In  Acadia National Park

 Stepping Stones Along Old Duck Brook Trail
                                      



 Storm Beach Cottage - George B. Dorr's Final Home
                                                         Acadia National Park
                            


View From Hanging Steps
Acadia National Park
                                                         


Unmarked Hanging Steps Trail
Champlain Mountain - Acadia National Park


Abandoned Grunee Trail
Acadia National Park




Eagle Lake - Acadia National Park



Old Car Parts - Unmarked Ranger Trail
Acadia National Park



Witch Hole Pond
Acadia National Park


Dorr Pond 
Acadia National Park


Lake Wood
Acadia National Park



Duck Brook At Round The Bend
Acadia National Park


The Bridge
Acadia National Park



Mother And Child
Acadia National Park


Ship Harbor
Acadia National Park



Ship Harbor
Acadia National Park



The Stone Arches - Eagle Lake
Acadia National Park



Box Turtle
Acadia National Park