Cliffs on Ocean Drive, Bar Harbor Me. 9x.

"Cliffs on Ocean Drive, Bar Harbor Me. 9x." The building on the cliffs among the trees, now part of Acadia National Park, was accessed from today's Oceanside Drive. It was a cottage belonging to Reverend Christopher Starr Leffingwell, a native Ohioan who became the first rector of Bar Harbor's St. Saviour's Episcopal Church, which he served for 20 years until his retirement in 1899. (He also founded the Church of Our Father in nearby Hulls Cove, built with contributions from summer residents Cornelia and Mary Prime.) Named "Camp Aim-Al," records show that it existed in 1901 and probably still stood in 1928 when a newspaper reported, "Growth clearings were made on the Leffingwell Estate on the Ocean Drive during the last winter and spring." Rev. Leffingwell died in 1901, and his wife and six children inherited the family home on Mount Desert Street in Bar Harbor (now the Primrose Inn) and the Oceanside cottage. On August 14, 1929, the year Lafayette National Park was renamed Acadia; the family conveyed the "Camp Aim-Al" property to George Dorr, superintendent of the park and board member of the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations. Less than a week later Dorr transferred it to John D. Rockefeller, Jr. who gave it to Acadia National Park, September 1930. Nothing remains of "Camp Aim-Al" except a cut iron pipe in the granite ledge on the ocean side.