Bar Harbor, Maine

Hancock County

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Bar Harbor is a port city in Hancock County, Maine, United States.

Bar Harbor was founded in 1796. First, the city was called "Eden"; it was renamed " Bar Harbor " only on March 3, 1918. In the summer of Bar Harbor is a popular resort of the upper class of Maine.

General

Bar Harbor is adjacent to Acadia National Park.

Bar Harbor was once a popular holiday home wealthy American families such as the Rockefellers and Astors. The pioneer of social work Jane Addams held here on frequently. 1947 a fire destroyed much of the city - and the villas of these families.

Since 1998, Bay Ferries Limited Fährfirma ran a connection from Bar Harbor to Yarmouth ( Nova Scotia ). The high speed catamaran "The Cat " mastered before his appointment in 2009 the route ( under normal weather conditions ) in 2.5 hours.

In Bar Harbor is also the headquarters of the Jackson Laboratory, a world leader as applicable Institute for the study of human diseases with the house mouse as a model organism.

In Bar Harbor, the College of the Atlantic is.

Sons and daughters of the town

Bar Harbor is the birthplace of former Vice President of the United States and the Governor of New York Nelson A. Rockefeller, Garry Davis, a peace activist and founder of the World Citizens' Movement, and the astronauts Charles Owen Hobaugh.