Above is an interactive map that explores the origins early settlers—where they might have moved from or where their lands plot were laid—and other important sites. You can pan around said map using the mouse and click on various boxes to read their contained information. Additional instructions are present on the title slide (do read them!). Below, you’ll find a list of endnotes that corresponds to the numbers listed in the text.
Endnotes:
- 1. Jordan, Lawton, Maddox, The Island of Mount Desert Register with the Cranberry Isles, 1909-10 (Lawton-Jordan Co., 1909), 97.
- “Sans Stanley,” WikiTree, accessed April 10, 2025, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stanley-2925.
- 3. “Benjamin Bunker,” WikiTree, accessed April 8, 2025, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bunker-711.
- 4. “Aaron Bunker,” WikiTree, accessed April 12, 2025, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bunker-722.
- 5. “John Rich,” WikiTree, accessed April 12, 2025, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Rich-1466.
- 6. Maine Natural Areas Program, “Great Cranberry Heath Focus Area,” Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry, accessed April 22, 2025, https://www.maine.gov/dacf/mnap/focusarea/great_cranberry_heath_focus_area.pdf.
- 7. “Cranberry Isles, Maine One Place Study,” WikiTree, accessed April 8, 2025, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Cranberry_Isles%2C_Maine_One_Place_Study#Pioneer_Settlers.
- 8. Richard Cox and Bruce Komusin, The Bunker Cemetery, Great Cranberry Island Historical Society, 2001, accessed April 21, 2025, https://www.gcihs.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/The-Bunker-Cemetery-Copyright-%C2%A9-2001-Richard-Cox-Bruce-Komusin.pdf.
- 9. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society, Spurling Cemetery Names, Dates, Burials, updated June 18, 2017, accessed April 22, 2025, https://www.gcihs.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/SpurlCemNamesDatesBurialsWEBSITE_June18_2017.pdf.