![]() ![]() ![]() Agamont House, the first hotel in Eden, was established in 1855 by Tobias Roberts. Inspired by their paintings, journalists, sportsmen and "rusticators" followed. In the 1840s, its rugged maritime scenery attracted the Hudson River School and Luminism artists Thomas Cole, Frederic Edwin Church, William Hart and Fitz Henry Lane. With the best soil on Mount Desert Island, it also developed agriculture. Early industries included fishing, lumbering and shipbuilding. The community was first settled by Europeans in 1763 by Israel Higgins and John Thomas and incorporated on Februas Eden, after Sir Richard Eden, an English statesman. Another principal road, Eagle Lake Road, leads west, from its intersection with Eden Street, Mount Desert Street and Kebo Street, into the national park. Two other streets link Route 3 to Main Street: West Street (the first visitors from the north see) and Cottage Street. It then circumnavigates the eastern portion of Mount Desert Island. Upon entering the town limits from the north, Route 3 turns east onto Mount Desert Street, before turning south onto Main Street at Bar Harbor's Village Green. The town's main access road, from the north or south, is State Route 3, which is the coastal Eden Street taken from the Trenton Bridge. The town is home to the College of the Atlantic, Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor Bank & Trust and MDI Biological Laboratory.īar Harbor is also home to the largest parts of Acadia National Park, including Cadillac Mountain, the highest point within 25 miles (40 km) of the coastline of the eastern United States. During the summer and fall seasons, it is a popular tourist destination and, until a catastrophic fire in 1947, the town was a noted summer colony for the wealthy. As of the 2020 census, its population is 5,089. ![]() Bar Harbor is a resort town on Mount Desert Island in Hancock County, Maine, United States. ![]()
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