[5] After the Native Americans, the first families that settled on the island were Abraham and Hannah Somes as well as James and Rachel Richardson in the year of 1761.

Somes was requested by the Massachusetts governor, Francis Bernard, to settle there and establish mills.

One could find a job in logging, fishing, shipbuilding, coastal trading, or quarry working.

During this glacial event, Somes Sound was carved out of the island, giving it a curved U-shaped valley characteristic of glaciation.

These granites and volcanic rocks were emplaced adjacent to ~400 million year old siltstones and sandstones that sit on the inland side of the island on which the village of Bar Harbor lies.

The mountains of Acadia represent a collisional tectonic event which was soon followed by a related series of continental collisions which led to a major phase in the mountain-building of the Northern Appalachians known as the Acadian Orogeny.