Islesford, Maine

Islesford is a hamlet located on Little Cranberry Island in Hancock County, Maine, United States.

It lies in the Atlantic Ocean southeast of Mount Desert Island, which is the site of Acadia National Park.

Travelers can reach the island village via the Beal and Bunker mail boat and ferry service that runs from the village of Northeast Harbor in the town of Mount Desert; the Cranberry Cove Boating ferry service from Southwest Harbor and Manset; and during the summer on various water taxis including 'Cadillac Water Taxi", and "Delight," both leaving from various harbors.

In 1980, the museum was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

[6] Folklorist Mary Winslow Smyth summered in Islesford, and used the town as her base for the fieldwork, which produced Minstrelsy of Maine: Folk-songs and Ballads of the Woods and the Coast and British Ballads from Maine.