Bailey Island (Maine)
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Bailey Island is an island in Casco Bay, and a part of the town of Harpswell, Maine, USA. As of the 2000 census, the island had a year-round population of 400.
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[edit] History
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Bailey Island was first populated in the 1600s by European settlers. The island was then known as Newaggin, a name which was given it by the local Abenaki Native Americans. The first settler of the island, William Black, took possession of the island in 1727 after spending many years of his life there. Because of this, the island became known as Will's Island. In 1742, Timothy Bailey bought Will's Island for one pound of tobacco and a gallon of rum from William Black. After Timothy Bailey bought the island, William Black left to live on Orr's Island. From then on, the island was known as Bailey Island.
The Bailey Island Bridge, which spans Will's Gut and connects Bailey Island to Orr's Island, was completed in 1928 and is one of the world's only granite cribstone bridges, with the other one in Scotland[citation needed].
[edit] Notable Residents
Three prominent female psychoanalysts, Esther Harding, Eleanor Bertine, and Kristine Mann, were followers of Carl Jung and long-time summer residents of Bailey Island. Kristine Mann[1], known in Jung's work as Miss-X, was one of Jung's subjects. Jung is also known to have visited Bailey Island and to have lectured at the Bailey Island Library Hall.
Frank Aydelotte, president of Swarthmore College, summered at Bailey Island where he became acquainted with Holbrook Mann MacNeille and Stephan Mann MacNeille in the 1920s. With Aydelotte's encouragement both attended Swarthmore and later went on to lead distinguished careers in physics and mathematics.
[edit] Further reading
- Nancy Orr Johnson Jensen, "Bailey Island: Memories, Pictures & Lore", Mayhaven Publishing, 2003, ISBN 1-878044-96-6
- Harpswell Historical Society Website[2]
- Beth E. Hill, The Evolution of Bailey's Island,(c)1992, Beth E. Hill
[edit] Maps
- Bailey Island (Maine) is at coordinates Coordinates:
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