From collection Place
Sections of this route may be underwater due to beaver dams. Also within the area that burned in the 1947 fire. Current condition unknown. MB
Historical Context
In he 1905 BHVIA 16th An. Rpt. Waldron Bates, Chairman of the Committee on Roads and Paths, states, "Another new path is under construction to branch off from Half-Moon Pond Path and cross the Breakneck Road and meet the Fawn Pond Path."In the 1906 BHVIA 17th An. Rpt. Waldron Bates, Chairman of the Committee on Roads and Paths, states, "work done under the supervision of Andrew E. Liscomb ....included ...putting large stones through wet places in the Witch Hole Path"In the 1906 BHVIA 17th An. Rpt. Waldron Bates, Chairman of the Committee on Roads and Paths, states, "The following new paths have been made: ... a new path from the Witch Hole Path to Fawn Pond Path." This path is not clearly named and defined in the 1915 path guide. However, on p. l 8, walk #4, one recommendation is to make a circuit on the Witch Hole Pond Path. The path could be described as a circuit with two spurs. One spur starts at the east side of the pond along Witch Hole Brook to the Duck Brook outlet at Duck Brook Road. The other spurs starts at the west side of the pond near the inflow brook and continues west across The Intervale, crosses Hull Cove Brook and Breakneck Road and connects with the Fawn Pond Path. Presumably it is the latter spur that is called the Witch Hole Path.In the August 9, 1923 Meeting Notes, it is recorded that "Mrs. Henderson had presented to the Hancock County Reservation the Duck Brook Path and the Witch's Hole Path."The path is marked on the 1941 path map but not on the 1941 "NPS Master Plan of the Bar Harbor Area."
NRHP Property ID
100007602
ACAD Trails ID
313
