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Sutton Island, Maine
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Sutton Island

The Outer IslandsBy visitacadiaadminSeptember 9, 2018

Legend says that a local native chief sold Sutton, one of the five Cranberry Islands, to Ebenezer Sutton in 1755  for two quarts of rum.

Cranberry Islands on Mount Desert Island, Maine
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The Cranberry Islands

The Outer IslandsBy visitacadiaadminSeptember 9, 2018

Five islands — Bear, Sutton, Great and Little Cranberry, and Baker — make up the Cranberry group just south of Mount Desert Island, at the entrance to Somes Sound.

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