Acadia National Park: Duck Brook, Acadia National Park, Hancock County, ME

"Guidebooks and Promotional Brochures in the 1860s and '70s.In the late 1860s and 1870s recreational walking, boating, and buckboard rides were the most fashionable activities for visitors. Advertisements printed by steamship and railroad companies promoted island scenery, particularly the interesting rocky coast. Touring the island's rock formations and climbing along the shore, also known as "rocking," was a popular pastime. Many of the rocks were named, some with more than one name.Walks to rock formations as well as inland mountains and lakes were described in travel guides for the island. Guidebooks written in the 1860s and 1870s harkened back to the pre-Civil War era of mountain tourism by combining poetry written during this earlier period and frequently emphasizing the visual qualities captured in paintings by Cole and Church. Clara Barnes Martin published her first guide to Mount Desert Island in 1867, and other writers, including Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Samuel Drake, Albert Bee, Moses Sweetser, and William Lapham, soon followed. Though these authors perpetuated the romance of exploring pathless mountains, they also provided detailed directions to these destinations. Many routes were still "scrambles," but others, such as the Duck Brook Path and the ascent of Newport [Champlain] Mountain, were well-developed, marked trails. Tourists typically hired guides to lead them to the more remote destinations such as the summits of Sargent and Western Mountains." - Brown, Margaret Coffin. Pathmakers – Cultural Landscape Report for the Historic Hiking Trail System of Mount Desert Island: History, Existing Conditions, & Analysis (Olmstead Center for Landscape Preservation, 2006) p. 26-27. - Listed as prepared by Margaret Coffin Brown.The Pathmakers book is the bible for all things to do with the history of Acadia National Park. Particularly see:Mountain Scrambles by Artists and Rusticators, 1830s-60s.p. 20-26Rocking, Walking Guides and Hiking Clubs, 1860s-1890p. 26-33"Duck Brook is not visited now as much as in the older days, when its woody glens were resorted to by many parties of ramblers. It is something over two miles from the outflow at Eagle Lake to the pretty little cove at its mouth. A dim wood road diverges from the Corniche Road, a quarter of a mile beyond the Duck Brook bridge, and runs about half the way up the valley of Duck Brook, to a point under Great Pond Hill. The usual route for ramblers is up the path which leaves the highway at the Duck Brook bridge, and by which one can ascend to the water works dam, and come out near Eagle Lake. The best of the scenery lies below the dam; and a pleasant reconnaissance [Sic] may be made up Witch Hollow Brook (coming in on the north, not far from the bridge), to the lonely pond in the glen above. But even this tranquil valley of Duck Brook has been trampled by alien and hostile feet. In 1781 the British sloop-of-war Allegiance sailed up Frenchman's Bay, and destroyed a few houses at Waukeag Neck, and swept off as captives several bold militia officers of the 6th Lincoln (County) Regiment. Among these was Capt Ezra Young, who lived near Duck Brook, and was haled away by a boat's-crew of blue jackets, landing on the shore hard by." - Sweetser, Moses Foster. Chisholm’s Mount-Desert Guide-Book (Chisholm Brothers, 1888) p. 32-33

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