ROBIN HOOD PARK HORSE RACING TRACK

ROBIN  HOOD  PARK  RACE  TRACK

September 8. 1897
Bar Harbor Record

Robin Hood Park Leased For Racing Purposes

Bar Harbor next year will have running and steeple chase racing.  Yesterday Mr. Pineo leased to a number of gentlemen Robin Hood Park on the Gorge Road owned by Mr. W.M. Roberts of Bar Harbor.
The papers are all signed and work will soon be begun on the grounds to put them in proper shape.
There will be a half-mile, and steeple chase trace, bicyle course, grand stand and stables together with all modern improvements.  The whole will be fenced in.
There will be from 100 to 150 runners stabled at the park in the summer and races will be held three times a week.  Some of the best runners in the country will be there and the whole will lend a verve to summer life in Bar Harbor.

The bulk of the race track and grand stands was locared where Jackson Lab is today, but a section of the race track extended to the point where some of the picnic tables are located today at Bear Brook Picnic Area.  Upon a search of the woods between the picnic area and Jackson lab, we were able to locate a number of old fence posts that once made up the fence that surrounded the rack track, they are still firmly in the ground today, though a few are laying on the ground.

What remains of the Race Track Fence of Robin Hood Park

TOWN SETS FARES TO ROBIN HOOD PARK

March 19, 1902
Bar Harbor Record

Town Meeting;

Article 88 - To see if the town will so amend the Town Ordinances as to fix the rate of fair to and from the fair grounds at Robin Hood Park.

On motion of B.S. Higgins it was voted, that the town ordinances be so amended and is herewith amended as to fix the rate of fare to and from the fair ground at Robin Hood Park at 25 cents each for two passengers and 25 cents each additional passenger each way.

GEN. EDWARD MORRELL & ROBIN HOOD PARK

Bar Harbor Record
July 26, 1905

Gen. Edward Morrell of Philadelphia, owner of Robin Hood Park and Thirlstone on Scott's Hill, arrived yesterday for the season.  He was delayed in coming owing to the death of Nelson Brown, a prominent Philadelphian who is well known here.  Gen. Morrell will bring his usual string of horses here this season and his entrees at the horse show attract considerable attention.  Now that he is here the deal for Robin Hood Park will be consummated.  The price asked is $17,000 which is regarded as a very reasonable one.