Editing Tremont, Maine (section)

==History==
[[File:Bass Harbor Head Light, Mount Desert Island, ME.jpg|thumb|left|[[Bass Harbor Head Light]]]]
Settled in 1762, it was incorporated on June 3, 1848, as Mansel, the name given the island by Isaac Young Ellis company of emigrants to the [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] in 1630. Two months later, on August 8 it was renamed Tremont, which means "three mountains" in [[French language|French]].<ref name=Coolidge>{{Cite book  | last = Coolidge  | first = Austin J.|author2=John B. Mansfield   | title = A History and Description of New England| year = 1859| location = Boston, Massachusetts| page = 328| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=OcoMAAAAYAAJ&q=coolidge%20mansfield%20history%20description%20new%20england%201859&pg=PA328}}</ref> By 1880, when the population was 2,011, the town had a [[sawmill]], [[shipyard]], [[gristmill]], [[roof shingle|shingle mill]] and [[brickmaking|brickyard]]. [[Fishing]] and [[fish curing]] were the principal industries. Today, tourism is important to the economy.<ref>{{Citation
  | last = Varney
  | first = George J.
  | title = Gazetteer of the state of Maine. Tremont
  | place = Boston
  | publisher = Russell
  | year = 1886
  | url = http://history.rays-place.com/me/tremont-me.htm
  | archive-url = https://archive.today/20130201034925/http://history.rays-place.com/me/tremont-me.htm
  | url-status = dead
  | archive-date = February 1, 2013
  }}</ref>