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Bar Harbor, Maine
Bar Harbor
is a
town
on
Mount Desert Island
in
Hancock County
,
Maine
,
United States
. As of the
2010 census
, its population is 5,235. Bar Harbor is a popular tourist destination in the
Down East
region of Maine and home to the
College of the Atlantic
,
Jackson Laboratory
, and
MDI Biological Laboratory
(
Salisbury Cove
village). Prior to a catastrophic 1947 fire the town was a famous
summer colony
for the super-affluent elite. Bar Harbor is home to the largest parts of
Acadia National Park
, including
Cadillac Mountain
, the highest point within twenty-five miles (40 km) of the coastline of the
Eastern United States
. The town is served by the
Hancock County-Bar Harbor Airport
which has flights on
Cape Air
and
PenAir
to
Boston
.
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