Description: Poster for Ella Kotsen's talk on lighthouses. Place: Tremont Historical Society Country Store Museum, 4 Granville Road, Bass Harbor, Tremont Date: August 13, 2021, 3:00 Folder includes Ella's notes for her talk
Description: Poster for Ella Kotsen's talk on her research of Ruth Moore's novels, including social, community and econopmic issues in the novels and contemporary. Ella is a rising senior at Bryn Mawr University and summer intern at Tremont Historical Society. Event: Ruth Moore Days, 2022 Place Bass Harbor Memorial Library Date: July 19, 2022
Description: Obituary for Hannah H. Heath, wife of William Heath. Four pages. Penciled handwritten copy. Last page includes their children, who they married and where they lived. Contains historical narrative describing the times that determined her move from Beverly, MA to Sedgewick, Maine. Has references to the Revolutionary War and George Washington. Hannah was an ancestor of Paul R. Hinton.
Description: The History IT collection is a collection of approximately 73 items which were selected by History IT workers in June 2017 as part of an assessment of the THS collection's scope. They are digitalized in the History Trust Digital Archive, (History Trust.org) but are mostly not inventoried in the Past Perfect Database. We are currently inventorying them under this Collection Name HISTORY IT RECORDS. includes Thumb drive
Description: This is a collection of photos, documents and booklets saved by Margaret Elizabeth Harkins, who taught primary school in Tremont during the years 1934-1938. 33 black & White photos of Harkins, friends & students 7 documents related to the purchase of a car, 1938
Description: Swearing in Certificate for Thursto, John as light keeper at Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse, 09/09/1858; Bass Harbor, Tremont, Hancock, Maine. He was the first lkight keeper after the lighthouse was built.
Description: Inside passage between Bath and Boothbay Harbor, Chart #315, from a trigonometrical survey of the coast of the United States, bears the stamp of R.G.Hodgdon, Boothbay Harbor, Agent for government charts and maps
Description: Cape Sable, Nova Scotia to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, Chart #1000, Coast and Geodetic Survey, Washington, D.C., 1908. Handwritten on back: North Carolina & Frenchman's & Bluehill Bay; St. George River & Musselridge Channel; Bay of Fundy to Cape Ann; Cape Sable to Cape Hatteras
Description: Chesapeake Bay to Straits of Florida, Chart #1001, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Washington, D.C., first published 1913, reissued 1916.
Description: Calais to Little River (by Cutler), including Cobscook-1912-Chart #101, Coast and Geodetic Survey; bears the stamp of R.G.Hodgdon, Boothbay Harbor, Agent for government charts and maps
Description: Letter accompanying a draft proclamation for governor Angus King to declare July 11 to 18, 1998, Town of Tremont Week in recognition of the town's sesquicentennial. People Mentioned: Angus S. King Jr.
Description: Letter from Pam Watson describing Dr. Willis Watson's medical kit donated to the Tremont Historical Society see records 9/3/06 Dear Helene, Various medical and surgical instruments. Property of Dr. Willis Watson. Inclydes stethescope [sic], urine specificv gravity testing set, pharmaceutical vials,m small tortoiseshell instruments and larger surgical instruments. Arlene, these are considered extremely valuable to collectors of antique medical stuff. Live, Pam Notes: Pam Watson is Dr. Willis Watson's grand daughgter-in-law married to grandson Barron Watson. Helene is Halene Tuchman, THS Board member during 2000s. Arlene is THS Board president from 1990s to 2007. See records 2020.FIC.1.7, 2020.FIC.1, 2020.FIC.1.12, 2020.FIC.1.2, 2020.FIC.1.4, 2020.FIC.1.5, 2020.FIC.1.6, 2020.FIC.1.8, 2020.FIC.1.9. [show more]