Mount Desert, Hancock County, Maine Genealogy

Town Clerk
Town of Mount Desert Town Clerk 21 Sea Street Northeast Harbor, ME 04662 Phone: (207) 276-5531 email:[mailto:townclerk@mtdesert.org townclerk@mtdesert.org] Mount Desert Website

Historical Data
Mount Desert was first organized as a plantation in 1776; incorporated as the Town of Mount Desert in 1789; land set off to Eden (now Bar Harbor) in 1796; land set off to the Cranberry Isles in 1830 and again in 1849; land set off to Seaville (now extinct) in 1838, but partially reannexed in 1849; land set off to form Mansel (now Tremont) in 1848.