RED ROCK SPRING LOCATED

So we been setting on this story for a couple months now, doing further research and making more visits to the area, but we can now say the site of Red Rock Spring has now been documented with photos.  Some time back we reported as to locating a huge stone trough, an old newspaper article states such a huge trough, entirely carved from one piece of granite, set along one wall of the Red Rock bottling plant.  A pipe runs from that trough underground heading in the direction of the Red Rock Spring.  The huge granite slabs that once surrounded the top of the spring have been pushed out of position, but the spring itself, which had been deepened and enlarged, and whose sides had been lined with brick and tiles, are all still there, the brick lining of the spring can be made out under the water.  We measured the center of the spring at about three feet deep, up to four feet in a few areas, however one corner of the spring we found and area over five feet deep.  Between the trough and where another building stood there is a pipe coming up out of the ground with a facuet at the end of it - that may of been the inside of the bottling plant.

RED ROCK SPRING - ACADIA NATIONAL PARK

RED ROCK SPRING - BRICKS LINE ITS WALLS
ACADIA NATIONAL PARK

You can find a number of bricks scattered around the site, the insides of the spring are all brick lined.
The large granite blocks surrounding the spring are loose so caution should be used around them.  The very center of the spring is slightly higher on the bottom, as if the spring itself had been caped off, clearly today there are no natural gas bubbles bubbling up from the spring, which was one of the key features of the spring.  Mr Prescott who owned this spring along with Sieur de Monts Spring at one time, had a way of taking a normal spring and deepening it as well as enlarging it, which he was said to have done to Red Rock Spring.  In a letter to the Bar Harbor Times, a Rev. makes the claim that Mr. Prescot did the same thing to Sieur de Monts, than sold off the property who value jumped because of the unusual deep and large spring there, I have a blog with that letter to the editor up and you can decide for yourself if he is believeable or not.
Below is the old newspaper article I came across a few months ago;

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.

RED ROCK SPRING WATER PIPE
CARRIED WATER FROM SPRING TO HUGE GRANITE TROUGH

Path down through field begins by side of One Way Section of Park Loop Road at;

N 44 22.315

W 068 12.761

 This is almost directly across from the end of the Bardon Farm Road or what some call the far end of Kebo Road.

Huge Stone Trough

N 44 22.324

W 068 12.837

Red Rock Spring

N 44 22.331

W 068 12.842

The end of the Bardon Farm Road where it joins the Park Loop Road

N 44 22.316

W 068 12.755

RED ROCK SPRING TROUGH SAT ALONG WALL OF BOTTLING PLANT
ACADIA NATIONAL PARK

GRANITE BLOCKS - REMAINS OF A BUILDING
RED ROCK SPRING - ACADIA NATIONAL PARK

RED ROCK SPRING MAP
ACADIA NATIONAL PARK

How to Locate;

Option One.
Travel along the One Way section of the Park Loop Road, be looking for your first road on the left, that will be the far end of Kebo Street.  Turn onto it and just around the corner is a small dirt parking area.  Walk back to where you turned onto Kebo Street, the field is right there.  As you start down through the field, you want to begin to bear to your right.

Option 2.
Use the only traffic light Bar Harbor has as a starting point.  From Eden Street, route 3, go straight through the lights onto Kebo Street.
From Mount Desert Street at the lights, turn left onto Kebo Street.
From Eagle lake Road, route 233, turn right at the lights onto kebo Street.

Now follow Kebo Street until you come to a four way intersection.  Go straight and follow the road until you come to a small dirt parking area on the left, a ways past the cemetery.  Walk several yards further along the road to where it joins the Park Loop Road, the field is right there.  As you walk down through the field, angle towards the right as shown on the map.

UPDATE

We returned back to the area of Red Rock Spring today in search for parts of a stove others had located in the area of the Spring, no luck.  We than spent much of the afternoon in search for the elusive stairway up Kebo Mountain, I am beginning to think it might not exist.  Heading back to the Strath Eden Path, we decided to walk along it to an old road which runs down through the woods,great decision as we came upon a large number of parts to an old stove, not only that, there was a large old can or two, parts of really large old glass measuring cups, and hundreds of broken bottles.  It is worth noting that there are a number of old roads that criss cross the woods in this area.  Upon careful inspection, the bottles, for the most past read, Bar Harbor Soda, Red Rock Spring Bottling Co..  Interestingly there was a number of different colored bottles, all broken.  Some of the bottles were once really large and had the mark of being blown glass.    There was also a number of bricks scattered here and there.  It is worth noting that I do not believe this location was associated with the Red rock Spring production area, which was a great distance away.
We believe this to be a second location of stove parts for two main reasons, the photo of the stove parts we had been sent do not match the stove parts we located, I could not find the stove part we had been sent a photo of despite a good search of the area.  There was also no mention of hundreds of broken bottles next to the stove parts, so I am assuming there is a second location in the nearby woods with more stove parts.
Interestingly a number of the broken bottles also were marked for Calais Maine with a different company name on them.  I will be putting up photos this evening after we grab a bite to eat.

These broken bottles are everywhere but covered with dead leaves, so each step you take you can hear broken glass under your feet, it is just an estimate but i would place the number of broken bottles  between 100 to 200, no matter where you step or poke a stick there are more broken bottles.  Nearby we found a number of bricks as well as pieces of pottery and china ware.

Best way to find this location is by walking along the Stratheden, or Strath Eden, spelled both ways, until you come to the start of the old Kebo Mountain Granite Mining  road at N 44 22' 7"   W 068 12' 53".  Directly across from the start of that old road, on the other side of the main trail, look for an old road, looks like a wide gully and follow it down through the woods.  The gully will end, keep walking straight ahead and you will quickly come to a well defined  dirt road, the stove parts and broken Red Rock Spring bottles are just ahead.    A near by brook trickles down past the area as well.  There is enough left to many of the bottles that you can clearly read Bar Harbor Sode and Red Rock Spring Bottling Co. on many of the bottles.

My advice is that for most people, this is not a good area to explore as one slip or stumble and you could get a serious cut from all the broken glass.  I posted this for historic purposes.

RED ROCK SPRING CO BOTTLE - ACADIA NATIONAL PARK

RED ROCK SPRING CO> BOTTLE

RED ROCK SPRING MAP
ACADIA NATIONAL PARK

In my research of the Red Rock Bottling Company, later renamed Mt. Kebo Spring Water Company, I came across a good number of, shall we say, misleading ads, some sounding like snake oil ads of old that promise to cure illnesses.  The ad below  is an amazing example of making claims that just were not true, suggesting that their spring water might be filtered through miles of sand.  It was Mr. Preston himself that lined the bottom of the spring with sand, I truly doubt he dumped miles of sand into bottom of his spring.

In the ad below from 1910 it strongly suggests the location of the spring can be compared to that of the Garden of Eden.  I discovered the company ran many of these type of ads which made it seem less like an ad and more like a statement made by the newspaper.  In fact, it is in thses type of ads where the company really pushes their water into an entirely new area, as we will see.

In this next ad from 1911, the company makes the claim that their spring water can cure rheumatism, and not only that, it can rid your system of Uric Acid, when in fact it is impossible for any spring water to do either of those things.  So does ads like this, and there were many I found, place this company on the same level as say, a snake oil salesman?  I believe it does because the company is making claims the product can not possibly accomplish.

The clipping below explains the company changing its name.

GPS for bottles and stove parts;

N44 22.124
W 068 12.855

WAS THE SPRING AN ACT OF NATURE?

On my blog Early History Of Mount Desert Island Maine I have a post titled SIEUR DE MONTS SPRING - A WONDER OF NATURE OR MAN MADE, which features a letter written to the local paper concerning the real story behing this famous spring and just how it came to be.  And while we may call into question the facts outlined in the letter, the integrity of the letter writer can not be called into question, for the letter was written by none other then Rev. Charles S. Mitchell, DD.  In his letter he states that when he was young, him and a relative were on their way to do some fishing in that general area and came upon John Prescott, the man who owned a large amount of land in that area known as Prescott's Farm.  In his letter to the local paper the Rev. Mitchell states that they asked Mr. Prescot was doing and Mr. Prescot explained how he had come up with this idea to make more money, but before we go there, let's look back a ways and examine Mr. Prescot's past business venture, that of Red Rock Spring and its bottling plant.  It all began with a simple small spring, unlike the many thousands of springs found across the state of Maine, but Mr. Prescot and his sister, whom lived with him, were hard up for money, and thus a plan was hatched.  Mr. Prescot set about taking that small spring and widened and deepened it and lined its walls with colorful tiles, then set about putting up a bottling plant on the site next to the Red Rock Spring and used questionable ads to promote the water from this spring, claiming that by drinking his water it could cure you of some of your ills and stating the water was made so pure because it first ran through miles of sand which acted as a natural filter.

For a while the business took off but soon sales began to decline, most likely a result of other businesses promoting the health benefits of their spring water, so to keep the cash flow coming in, Mr. Prescot needed to come up with a way to out do his competition, which brings us back to that letter.

Mr. Prescot told the Rev. Mitchell and his relative that he had a new plan to make money, he was going to take two springs that were close together and cap one, forcing its waters back into the first spring, and he was going to enlarge and widen that first spring to make it appear it was an act of nature and a wonder to behold, because unlike the springs of his competitors, this new spring he was constructing would be the mother of all springs, and unlike Red Rock Spring which he tiled the walls of, he would keep this new spring rough so no one would suspect he was the one who created it, not mother nature.  Mr. Prescot was quick to put up a second bottling plant and at once began promoting the health benifits of this newly discovered spring which was a wonder of nature, and for a number of years he did well with the new business.

So from what is known of Mr. Prescots actions in regard to Red Rock Spring is known, in that light it is not a stretch to see just how believable the Rev. Charles S. Mitchell's story is.  When the lands that made up Prescot's Farm became part of what was to become a national monument, none of the players involved, including Mr. Dorr, had any idea that the spring was not what Mr. Prescot claimed it was, a wonder of nature, for only three people, and perhaps four if you include Mr. Prescot's sister, who surely must of known of her brothers plans, knew that this wonder of nature was in fact an act brought about by the hands of Mr. Prescot.

Below is the letter that the Rev. Charles S. Mitchell sent to the local paper;

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

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 was SIEUR DE MONTS SPRING an act of mother nature as we were all led to believe, or a man made creation that was part of a money scheme, that is for others to decide.  The bigger question is this;  is the story that Rev. Charles S. Mitchell tells a believable one, and based on what is known about Red Rock Spring, I think it is very believable, and when one considers a National Monument and later a National Park were formed around this spring, if the story is true one can only imagine somewhere out there in the known universe Mr. Prescot is looking down on us with a huge smile.

THE ELITE DRY CLEANSING CO.
5 Newton Way, Bar Harbor

THE AL-ED-HA COFFEE SHOP
Mount Desert Street, Bar Harbor

ELIZABETH PAGE DANCING CLASSES
Y.W.C.A. Bar Harbor

DANEY'S MARKET
5 Cottage Street, Bar Harbor

DAVIS BAR HARBOR BUCKBOARD CO.
Cottage Street, Bar Harbor

RED ROCK SPRING
Bar Harbor

THE OLD EAGLE LAKE ROAD

Roads don't just disappear, but back when I first moved here I was convinced that must of been the case, because i could not figure out why old maps showed the Green Mountain Survey Road, the Green Mountain carriage road and the Cadillac and gorge Trails all starting along the Eagle lake Road.  I searched up and down the Eagle lake Road and could not find a trace of any of those locations, how could they simply have vanished?  In reality, they had not vanished, they were where they had always been, the reason I wasn't finding any of those locations was because over time, a section of the Eagle lake Road had been abandoned, rerouted with a new section of roadway.  This happened because when the park Service decided to build the park Loop Road, they needed to build a bridge over the Eagle lake Road so traffic would not be impeded.  But there was no place along the current Eagle lake Road to build such a bridge, so a section of the Eagle Lake Road was rerouted to where it is today, where it passes under the large stone arch bridge.
So the old maps were not wrong, the road itself had been changed - if you look at the map you will see where the old Eagle lake Road once was, the section that was abandoned.  Its along that section of abandoned roadway that the start of the survey road, the carriage road and those two abandoned section of trails can be found.  This abandoned section of road is easy to locate, it begins directly across from the Cleftstone Road, blocked off by a few large granite blocks, and the power lines still run along the abandoned section of road.  With this information, the start of those abandoned trails are easy enough to locate, they are well worn.  But as for the start of the old survey road and carriage road, they are not so easy to find, well hidden behind trees.  Follow the abandoned section of the Cadillac North Ridge Trail, about a third of the way along the old road on the left, and stay to the right the whole way (some minor trails run off to the left and led to some houses) it will bring you to a well worn section of the old survey road, right leads you back to the old road, left leads to the newer section of the gorge Trail.  At that point a section of the survey road was destroyed in the building of the one way section of the Park Loop Road.
When the Park Service talks about the newer sections of trails it has built, such as the newer section of the Cadillac North Ridge Trail, and the newer section of the Gorge Trail, they usually use language like, it basically follows the original trail, or some language to that effect, and for good reason, they could not rebuilt the original trails there as they once was because to do so would mean crossing private property,  and unlike back in the day when many land owners welcomed such trails, todays land owners want nothing to do with them.  To rebuild the abandoned section of the North Ridge Trail, they would have to come pretty close to Mountain Ave., as the original trail did back in the day.  And to accurately rebuild the abandoned section of the Gorge Trail, that would require running a new  path along the old route, from the North Ridge trail over to mountain Ave, and along East Street, all private property today.  Once the gorge Trail left East Street, it continued through the woods until it came to an intersection, left took you to the golf Course, right took you in the direction of the official Gorge Trail..

Now the map below highlights why the Park Service can't rebuild the old trails along their original route, Mountain Ave and East Street are all private property today, and as this map shows, the gorge Trail once skirted the entire length of East Street.  The key to unlocking any of this was in learning that a section of the Eagle lake Road had been abandoned, .  Once there was no West Street Extension and people entered the National Park along Highbrook road,  However, if you were to walk along the abandoned section of of Eagle Lake Road, you would spot several unmarked paths, well worn, branching off of that stretch of abandoned road.  About half way along you come to a very well worn path to the left, this path runs up through the woods and veers away from Mountain Ave. at one point, joining up with the Cadillac Mountain North Ridge Trail, and along that abandoned section of trail is several lesser worn paths which all lead to houses over on Mountain Ave.  As the map below shows where the Gorge Trail once ran along one end of Mountain Ave, following East Street to its end and continuing up through the woods.  The new section of Gorge Trail the Park Service recently built is there best attempt of reopening that old gorge trail by Mountain Ave.

EAGLE LAKE CARRIAGE ROADS
ACADIA NATIONAL PARK

DORT CAR AD
MOORE'S GARAGE CO.
Southwest Harbor, Maine

M. PERLINSKY DRY GOODS
Main Street, Bar Harbor

SAWYER POULTRY FARM
Salisbury Cove

BAR HARBOR "FIX-IT" SHOP
Eagle Lake Road, Bar Harbor

PINE TREE DAIRY FARM
Salisbury Cove

KEATS LORENA HAND CARVED FRAMES
Cottage Street, Bar Harbor

NORMAN BEATON - CUT WOOD
Spring Street, Bar Harbor

CADILLAC MOUNTAIN SURVEY ROAD

We had thought this was the Old Buckboard Road that ran up Green Mountain, today called Cadillac Mountain, which competed with the Green Mountain Railroad company to get people to the summit of the Mountain.  I am not so sure this was the buckboard road, in part because old maps show the Buckboard road running much closer to the North ridge trail.  This is way too far down the mountain side and I tend to believe this may of at one time have been an old survey road which was said to have been built in this area.  This road is not too hard to locate and is in very good shape making it fairly easy to follow.
As your traveling along the park loop road, you want to pull over and park in the area where the One Way section of the Park Loop Road begins.   Now walk down the one way section, keeping to the right hand side of the roadway for a short ways, until you come to a storm  drain - it also has a very large rock in front of it just inside the woods which can easily be seen from the roadway (see photo).

From intersection to storm culvert with large rock

N 44 22 640

W 068 13 964

OLD SURVEY ROAD JUST INSIDE OF WOODS

From the storm drain walk straight into the woods about 2 to 3 car lengths and you come to the old road.    Back than, you had only two options to go up Cadillac Mountain, by way of train, or by way of the Buckboard Road which required you pay a fee to the owners of the road, who were not connected to the railroad company.
So once you enter the woods at that storm drain and come to the old road, it will go in two directions, one to the left leads you back in the direction of the North Ridge trail, with the old road coming out onto the Park Loop Road just before a curve in the roadway,  and a short distance beyond that curve is the parking area for the north ridge Trail.  And if you do go left, the further you go the tire marks get harder to follow.
That is not the case if you go right, the tire grooves in the earth remain easy to see, and dispite some small tree's and brush growing up in the roadway here and there, the road is almost perfectly straight.  The road was pretty wet when we hiked it, and we had to often step around wet areas, and a few places where it crossed sections of smooth granite, the granite was some what slippery.

So here at last we have the GPS numbers;

Intersection where One Way section of Park Loop Road begins;
N 44 22 522
W 068 14 041

From intersection to storm culvert with large rock
N 44 22 640
W 068 13 964

From culvert to dirt road in woods
N 44 22 629
W 068 13 944

Follow road to the right to connect to the Cadillac Summit Road.

The hike is not too long and it comes out onto the lower section of the Cadillac Summit Road by a large storm drain big enough to qualify for a cave.
Just as a side note, the old Buckboard Road was once the scene of holdup's, with a gunman nick named the Gentleman Bandit holding up passing buckboards and demanding watches, rings and money from the men.  He got the name Gentleman Bandit because he did not rob from the women.  At one time a reward of $5,000 was placed on his head but he was never captured.
From the above map you can see the route the Buckboard road took - as far as I known of there was three  roads built to the summit of Cadillac Mountain, the old Buckboard Road, a survey Road and the current Summit road, the Survey road joins the Summit road at about a quarter of the way up the Summit road..
One thing we do know is that when the Green Mountain Railroad was operating the cog train up to the summit of Cadillac Mountain, the Buckboard road was also operating at the same time, carrying paying customers up to the summit by way of horse drawn buckboards.  I have read a piece by the park service which stated there is only one known old map that shows a road up Green mountain that has the words "Buckboard Road" written on it - I have not seen that map but would love to get my hands on a copy of it.

OLD WIRE GATE - GREEN MOUNTAIN CARRIAGE ROAD
ACADIA NATIONAL PARK

UPDATE;
We were fortunate to have stumbled upon an old wire gate, with the thick cable with loop on one end still in place, as it was back in the day that the Green Mountain Buckboard Company operated the carriage road up to the summit of Green Mountain.  Some one would man the wire gate during the day, with the gate being closed.  As a buckboard approached, a fee was paid and the person naming the gate would open it up, allowing the buckboard to pass through.  This is a very historic find in the middle of the woods, yet the hidden gate lies within a stones throw of the old survey Road.  When the old Buckboard Road was built, it was said to have incorporated a section of the survey road, but at a certain point veered off of that road, taking a different and safer route for buckboards up to the summit of Green Mountain.    The wire gate comes up on a number of stories on the old carriage road, and now we know where that wire gate was located.  From the wire gate a rough but well worn dirt road runs through the woods until it joins the official Cadillac Mountain Summit road.    You can read more on this in my blog on the Buckboard Road.

A.J. HATCH & SONS FARM PRODUCE
Bar Harbor

FLOWER GARDEN LUNCHES AND TEAS
Hancock Street, Bar Harbor

NURCH'S RESTAURANT
12 Main Street, Bar Harbor

GROCERIES FOR CASH
BION E. WHITNEY
6 Cottage Street, Bar Harbor

FORD MOTOR COMPANY AD

5TH AVE. COFFEE AD

THE LITTLE TEA HOUSE
Bar Harbor

THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS TRAIL

Everyone should be so lucky as to have their very own trail, well if you rent the bass Harbor Lighthouse, you get just that. The family that lives in the Lighthouse Keepers quarters use the trail to escape the summer crowds that find their way to the lighthouse each season. The trail is not marked but the start of it does have a KEEP OUT sign along with a locked gate. So from the parking lot, go right and follow a paved path downward. About half way down the path, along a fence, is a gate with a path which leds across a small field and into the woods. A short ways into the woods the path comes to a bluff with chairs and large shade tree's. From this bluff, in the shade, family members can sit and enjoy the fishing boats and Swans Island Ferry as they pass in and out of Bass Harbor.
To the right is a well worn path which follows the edge of the cliff to one side overlooking the harbor and woods to the other side. These woods here are full of wild berries and one evening at dusk we saw a large bear cross the lighthouse Road as it was headed toward those berries. It is the first and only bear i have seen in the twenty plus years I have lived here.
The path runs for some distance, coming to a farm which overlooks the harbor. The map shows two routes by which to reach this hidden path by.

MAP OF BASS HARBOR LIGHTHOUSE
ACADIA NATIONAL PARK

BAR HARBOR "FIX-IT" SHOP
63 Eagle Lake Road, Bar Harbor

FREE LAND GIVE-A-WAY
Isle Au Haut, Maine

THE FRENCH HAT SHOP
Cottage Street, Bar Harbor

MOUNT DESERT GARAGE
Cottage Street, Bar Harbor

KURSON'S GIFT SHOP
Main Street, Bar Harbor

GOODRICH SHOPS
Mount Desert Street, Bar Harbor

BAR HARBOR MOTOR CO.
Bar Harbor