Bar Harbor Wedding

Bar Harbor is a town on Mount Desert Island in Hancock County, Maine, United States. As of the 2000 census, it population was 4,820. A port of entry for Bay Ferries from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Bar Harbor is a famous upper-class summer colony in the Down East region of Maine. Situated between Frenchman Bay and Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor is home to the College of the Atlantic and Jackson Laboratory, in addition to Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory at the village of Salisbury Cove. At the end of each May, the community hosts The Warblers & Wildflowers Festival, a celebration of Bar Harbor nature and scenery.

Abenaki Native Americans called the island "Pemetic," meaning "sloping land." Here they fished, hunted and gathered berries. In 1604, French explorer Samuel de Champlain is believed to have run aground at Otter Point, where he met members of the Abenaki tribe. He would name the island "Isles des Monts Deserts," meaning "island of barren mountains" -- now called Mount Desert Island, the largest in Maine.