Bear Island Lighthouse Wall Clock

Bear Island Lighthouse sits on, as one might expect, Bear Island, at the entrance to Mount Desert Harbour, Maine. However, Bear Island might have originally been named “Bare,” due to the lack of trees, and probably was never home to any bears. The area was included in a French-Canadian land grant dating to 1688, which was upheld by the General Court of Massachusetts in 1787. Later the area, (including Bear Island), which would become the Cranberry Isles (named for the cranberries that indeed grew there), passed from Massachusetts to Maine.