Bar Harbor, town (2020 pop. 5,089),
SE Maine, on Mount Desert
Island and on Frenchman Bay; settled 1763, inc. 1796. It was
a famed New England resort during the 19th cent. Bar Harbor is a port
of
entry, and a port of call for cruise ships; from
1956
to 2009 a ferry connected the town with Yarmouth, N.S. In 1947 a large part
of the town was destroyed by fire. Jackson Memorial Laboratory for
biological research and the College of the Atlantic are there. Nearby
Acadia National
Park is a major tourist attraction.
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