6 Bangor Daily News Hancock Tuesday, O Lake Wood monument, foot bridge echo a forgotten By Kathy Harbour mained undisturbed and unre- torical Society, the Schermer- island, contributing to the con- erase some of the history of the gave the la Hancock Bureau membered for decades. Remote horn sisters were members of an struction and maintenance of monument. land to Ac from the familiar foot trail to the aristocratic Bar Harbor family park trails. The long-time curator of the Fanny Brid HULLS COVE - Time and na- public swimming hole, the monu- in the late 1800s and early 1900s. ment was finally overtaken by a Volunteers working with Bar Harbor Historical Society, Anne Kane ture seem to have conspired, Like other wealthy families of Gladys O'Neil, remembered that thicket of alders and vines. The Friends of Acadia and the Down- No written spreading a blanket of forgetful- the time, the two were strong ness over one of Acadia National east Outing Club were alerted to Beatrix Farrand designed the bridge, battered through the dec- supporters of the town and of the fer, howeve Park's architectural treasures. ades by fallen dead wood floating the forgotten structures by two foot bridge. Farrand, a land- Park record park. other park volunteers, Charles scape architect who designed on the water's surface, had col- land was acc Recently uncovered by a hardy Married to the great grandson lapsed on one side. of John Jacob Astor, Anne and and Virginia Edwards. The Ed- many large-scale private es- group of volunteers, the monu- cock County her husband John Innes Kane wards had been informed of the tates, also worked with John Dedicated to the memory of mention of ment and bridge at Lake Wood structures during their summer Rockefeller on the planting de- sisters. have dusted off old memories of two sisters, Anne Cottenet Kane were early supporters of the Bar and Fanny Schermerhorn Harbor Association's paths com- of work cataloguing the many sign for the carriage roads, the a time gone by and left some un- bridges, gate lodges and vistas in As the m answered questions as well. Bridgham, the monument serves mittee, which established hun- monuments and plaques in the national park. the park. are uncovere Nestled at the north end of as a reminder of the role of early dreds of miles of paths and trails The bridge at Lake Wood was doubtedly Lake Wood in Hulls Cove, the supporters who set aside land for on Mount Desert Island. Even with the structures now apparently constructed in 1929, landscape y granite monument with chiseled the national park. Fanny Bridgham and her hus- uncovered by volunteers, who the year Lafayette Park became page in the letters and the stone foot bridge According to Debbie Dyer, a band Samuel also were fervent have cleared a trail and cut away Acadia National Park. Accord- of the park nearby have apparently re- curator with the Bar Harbor His- supporters of the town and the underbrush, time has served to ing to the monument, the sisters complete. ACCORDING to a recently newly uncovered monument, Lake Wood (right) at Acadia National Park was donated to the park by the Schermerhorn sisters. A monument and foot bridge, recently uncovered after being forgotten for decades, were erected there in memory of the sisters. The foot bridge (below, right), apparently designed by landscape architect Beatrix Farrand in the 1920s, was recently uncovered by volunteers working on trails in the park. Dedicated to the memory of two sisters, the monument (below) is a tribute to the early supporters of the park. NEWS Photos by Kathy Harbour DISCUSSING the clearing of the Lake Wood trail Buck and Friends of Acadia Director Duane Pier- are (from left) volunteers Ken Sergeson, George son. (NEWS Photo by Kathy Harbour) GEORGE FELTUS, a volunteer who has donated many hours to trail and carriage road work at Acadia this year, worked on clearing the Schermerhorn monument at Lake Wood last week. (NEWS Photo by Kathy Harbour) 7