"The long contemplated scheme of bridging the dam across Norwood cove, Southwest Harbor, shutting in the tide waters for a swimming and boating pool, is being pushed forward by C. E. Cook and others whose shore lots will be greatly increased in value if the scheme materializes. The slate legislature will be petitioned, and if a charter is granted work will begin on the dam in the spring." - Bar Harbor Record, December 21, 1898
OF THE SIXTY FIFTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MAINE 1891 ACTS AND RESOLVES
Chapter 1.18 An Act to Incorporate the Tremont Ice and Dam Company Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled as follows SECT 1 Henry H Clark William N Abbott Gilbert L Lurvey Elias H Genn John TR Freeman Wesley Ober Arthur T Richardson John C Ralph RJ Latnont EL Higgins JT Clark JF Young WE Mason SW Her rick Henry Clark SH Clark Clarence Clark Augustus Clark Nathan Clark OW Cousins James A Freeman and AI Holmes their associates successors and assigns are hereby created a body corporate by the name of the Tremont Ice and Dam Company for the purpose of building and sustaining a dam not subject to tide gates or locks across the tide waters of Norwood's Cove in the town of Tremont county of Hancock state of Maine for the purpose of making a fresh water pond also for the purpose of making storing selling shipping and erecting buildings for the purpose of carrying on the ice business and all other means necessary to carry on said business and to have exclusively all the rights and privileges of said pond and incident to corporations of a similar nature.
