Bar Harbor

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Bar Harbor
Bar Harbor Dock
Location in Maine
Bar Harbor
Basic data
Foundation :	February 23, 1769
State :	United States
State :	Maine
County :	Hancock County
Coordinates :	44 ° 24 ′  N , 68 ° 16 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 24 ′  N , 68 ° 16 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	5,235 (as of 2010)
Population density :	47.9 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	163.45 km 2  (approx. 63 mi 2 ) of which 109.40 km 2  (approx. 42 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	16 m
Postal code :	04609
Area code :	+1 207
FIPS :	23-02865
GNIS ID :	0561569

Bar Harbor is a town in Hancock County in the state of Maine in the United States . In 2010 there were 5235 inhabitants in 2427 households on an area of ​​163.45 km².

geography

According to the United States Census Bureau , Bar Harbor has a total area of ​​163.45 km², of which 109.4 km² is land and 54.05 km² is made up of water .

Geographical location

Bar Harbor is located on Mount Desert Island in Penobscot Bay off the coast of Maine in the Atlantic Ocean , in the center of southern Hancock County. It occupies the northeastern part of the island. The largest lake in the town is Eagle Lake . The surface is hilly and the highest point is Cadillac Mountain , which is 465 m high . A large part of the area is taken up by Acadia National Park.

Neighboring communities

All distances are given as straight lines between the official coordinates of the places from the 2010 census.

• North: Lamoine , 7.4 km
• North-northeast: Hancock , 3.6 mi
• Northeast: Sorrento , 6.1 mi
• East: Winter Harbor , 8.7 mi
• South: Mount Desert , 4.9 mi
• West: Trenton , 9 miles

City structure

There are several settlement areas in Bar Harbor : Bar Harbor , East Eden (former Post Office in Bar Harbor), Eden , Hamilton Station , Hulls Cove , Indian Point , Red Rock Corner , Salsbury Cove , Town Hill and West Eden . An early settlement was Widgins , either at Spruce Point or McKown Point.

climate

The mean average temperature in Bar Harbor ranges from −6.1 ° C (21 ° Fahrenheit ) in January to 20.6 ° C (69 ° Fahrenheit) in July. This means that the place is around 6 degrees cooler than the long-term average in the USA. The snowfalls between October and May are up to two and a half meters, more than twice as high as the average snow depth in the USA; the daily sunshine duration is at the lower end of the range in the USA.

history

The island of Mount Desert and other areas gave Louis XIV to Antoine de la Motte Cadillac in 1688 . Laumet was an officer in his service, later governor of Louisiana.

Bar Harbor was founded on February 23, 1769. Initially under the name Eden . on March 5, 1918, the area was renamed Bar Harbor . Bar Harbor was a popular vacation spot in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Wealthy American families like the Rockefeller and the Astor owned vacation homes in Bar Harbor. The social work pioneer Jane Addams also stayed here quite often. In 1947 a fire destroyed large parts of the city, including the villas of these families.

Since 1998 the ferry company Bay Ferries Limited operated a connection from Bar Harbor to Yarmouth , Nova Scotia . Before it was discontinued in 2009, the high-speed catamaran The Cat covered the route in two and a half hours in normal weather conditions.

Bar Harbor is also home to the Jackson Laboratory , one of the world's leading institutes for research into human diseases using the house mouse as a model organism.

Bar Harbor is home to the College of the Atlantic , a private liberal arts college .

Population development

Census Results - Town of Bar Harbor, Maine
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	400	657	764	957	1054	1127	1247	1195	1629	1946
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	4379	4441	3622	4486	4378	3864	3807	3716	4124	4443
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	4820	5235

Culture and sights

Buildings

Eegonos

Reverie Cove

Saint Savior's Episcopal Church and Rectory

In Bar Harbor and its associated villages, Hulls Cove, Indian Point and Salsbury Cove, two districts and a number of buildings have been listed and placed on the National Register of Historic Places :

The following was placed under monument protection as a district:

• Harbor Lane-Eden Street Historic District , incorporated in 2009, Register No. 09000550
• West Street Historic District , incorporated in 1980, Register No. 80000226

Other buildings:

• Robert Abbe Museum of Stone Antiquities , recorded 1983, register no. 83000451
• Blackwoods Campground , recorded 2007, register no. 07000612
• Cleftstone , recorded 1999, register no. 99001192
• Criterion Theater , recorded in 1980, register no. 80000222
• Eegonos , recorded in 1980, register no. 80000223
• The Farm House , recorded 2007, register no. 07001152
• Garland Farm , recorded 2005, register no. 05001174
• Highseas , recorded in 1978, register no. 78000326
• Jesup Memorial Library , recorded 1991, register no. 91000323
• John Innes Kane Cottage , recorded 1992, register no. 92000275
• Nannau , recorded 1984, register no. 84000322
• Redwood , recorded in 1978, register no. 78000166
• Reverie Cove , recorded 1982, register no. 82000743
• St. Edward's Convent, (Former) , incorporated in 1998, register no. 98001237
• Saint Savior's Episcopal Church and Rectory , recorded 1995, register no. 95000729
• Sproul's Cafe , recorded in 1982, register no. 82000744
• The Turrets , recorded in 1974, register no. 74000155
• US Post Office-Bar Harbor Main , incorporated in 1986, Register No. 86000880

Hull's Cove

• Church of Our Father , recorded in 1999, register no. 99000770
• Cover Farm , recorded 1995, register no. 95001464
• Hulls Cove High School , incorporated in 1999, Register No. 99000374

Indian Point

• Higgins Barn , incorporated in 2004, Register No. 03001502

Salsbury Cove

• Stone Barn Farm , recorded 2001, register no. 01001271

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Maine State Route 3 leads over a dam to Mount Desert Island and to Bar Harbor. The road runs along the coast to the north and east. The Maine State Route 102 branches off from it shortly after the dam towards the south and the Maine State Route 233 runs north of Eagel Lake from Village Bar Harbor to the southeast.

Public facilities

There are several medical facilities and hospitals in Bar Harbor.

The Jesup Memorial Library is located in a Grade II listed building on Desert Street in Bar Harbor.

education

Jesup Memorial Library

The Bar Harbor School Department is responsible for school education in Bar Harbor, and Bar Harbor is also part of the Mt Desert CSD . and with Bass Harbor, Cranberry Isles, Deer Isle, Frenchboro, Mount Desert, Southwest Harbor, Swan's Island and Trenton to the Mount Desert Island Regional School System - AOS 91 .

The schools in Bar Harbor are:

• Conners Emerson School with school classes from kindergarten through 8th grade
• Mount Desert Island High School with classes from 9th to 12th grade
• College of the Atlantic, a private liberal arts college

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Garry Davis (1921–2013), peace activist and initiator of the global citizens' movement
• Matthew Dunlap (born 1964), politician and Secretary of State of Maine
• Charles Owen Hobaugh (born 1961), astronaut
• William Jencks (1927–2007), biochemist and enzymologist
• Herb Mitchell (1937-2011), actor
• Esther Ralston (1902-1994), actress
• Nelson Rockefeller (1908–1979), Governor of New York State and Vice President of the United States

Personalities who have worked on site

• Rudolf Ernst Brünnow (1858–1917), orientalist and philologist
• Joseph T. Edgar (1910–1990), politician and Secretary of State of Maine
• George Davis Snell (1903–1996), biologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize winner

Remarks

The fictional location Far Harbor from the Far Harbor DLC of the computer game Fallout 4 is based on Bar Harbor. Among other things, the old port was modeled. The fictional location is also located in an area modeled on the real Mount Desert Island at a location similar to its real model.

Web links

Commons : Bar Harbor, Maine  - Collection of Pictures, Videos, and Audio Files

• Official website of Bar Harbor (English)
• Bar Harbor Historical Society (English)
• Bar Harbor on City-Data.com
• Bar Harbor on maine.gov

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bar Harbor in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed May 13, 2018
2. ↑ Maine 2010 Census Results ; official publication of the Census Authority, (English; PDF; 32.5 MB)
3. ↑ Cadillac Mountain. In: peakery.com. Retrieved May 13, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
5. ^ Bar Harbor, Hancock County | Maine Genealogy. In: mainegenealogy.net. Retrieved May 13, 2018 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b} Bar Harbor, Maine (ME 04609) profile: population, maps, real estate, averages, homes, statistics, relocation, travel, jobs, hospitals, schools, crime, moving, houses, news, sex offenders. In: city-data.com. www.city-data.com, accessed on May 13, 2018 (English). 
7. ↑ Historical records: Early island ownership - Mount Desert Islander . In: Mount Desert Islander . 2017 ( mdislander.com ).
8. ^ Bar Harbor . In: Maine: An Encyclopedia . 2011 ( maineanencyclopedia.com ).
9. ↑ Population 1800–2010 according to census results
10. ^ Jesup Memorial Library - A Community and Cultural Center in Bar Harbor. In: jesuplibrary.org. Retrieved May 13, 2018 (American English). 
11. ↑ Local: Maine.gov. In: maine.gov. Retrieved May 13, 2018 (American English). 
12. ↑ Mount Desert Island Regional School System MDIRSS AOS91. In: mdirss.org. Retrieved June 2, 2018 .