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Article: Baker Island's keeper Acadia National Park works to preserve island's history, structures
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- October 7, 2009
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Near the mouth of Frenchman Bay, miles from the mainland, sits a
green island surrounded mostly by the open sea.
Tour boats come and go during the summer, but the only year-
round residents on this circular island are birds and bugs and
perhaps a few other animals that might travel from nearby inhabited
islands.
But Baker Island, located off Mount Desert Island, is not a
completely wild place. It has a lighthouse tower and an adjacent
home that used to house a family charged with keeping the beacon
going, two privately owned seasonal cottages and the Gilley
homestead, where the Gilley family first established themselves on
the island in the early 1800s.
The days of people living year-round ...