The first foundation at Duck Brook is an old foundation I stumbled across nearly 30 years ago, hidden not far in the woods by the Duck Brook Paradise Hill road bridge. The foundation has several rooms, one room off of which was clearly the kitchen is flooded with water, and the ground was very wet leading up the banking away from the foundation. I followed the wet area which led me to a small pipe like the ones that go to a faucet, sticking out of the ground it still has water gushing out of it after all these years. An old road almost from the corner of the large triple arch bridge runs uphill into the woods, the more you follow the road the more defined it becomes, leading to the area of the foundation, another nearby road runs through the woods and circles back toward the bridge but further below the bridge, this may of been a service road put in place when the large stone bridge was being built.
At the top of the banking above the old foundation is the old Bar Harbor Water pipe, which runs through the woods to this area from the Eagle Lake Road.
In foundation 2, I was told to check out this site by a tip, who believed one of the Bar Harbor Water Company reservoir's might of been located there. It was fairly easy to find, though I am not certain it was an old reservoir, that said, there was a couple large pieces of broken water pipe at the site, and clearly a very large circular structure was once located there. An old road appears to have made its way to the site, way before the Paradise Hill Road bridge was built, and a nearby tree is deeply scarred from where a chain grew into the side of the tree, most likely placed there to block cars from reaching the site. Nearby in the woods with a fallen tree over it is a deep small hole going down into the earth, maybe an old well, not sure. If you have any more information on this second foundation, or the first, drop me a line at fendermail56@yahoo.com
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