SEAWALL'S NAVAL RADIO STATION

I had lived for a few years in Bass Harbor, Maine, just down the road from Seawall, Maine, yet had no idea that at one time a United States Naval radio station was located in the tiny village of Seawall.  The Legal information Institute had the following information on the Naval Radio Station;
"The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to transfer to the control and jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior as an addition to the Acadia National Park all that tract of land containing two hundred and twenty-three acres, more or less, with improvements thereon, comprising the former naval radio station at Seawall, town of Southwest Harbor, Hancock County, Maine, said tract being no longer needed for naval purposes.).
(May 23, 1930, ch. 315, 46 Stat. 377.)
So I was aware at one time Seawall had a bowling alley, but this Naval Radio Station came as a complete surprise.  The following appeared in the local paper;

MAY ADD SEAWALL TRACT TO PARK
Bar Harbor Times
April 24,  1929

Bill Introduced By Senator Hale Would transfer Radio Station Property To Acadia National Park.

Acadia National Park will add to the territory the 233 acre section of land known as the Seawall Radio Station, near Manset, beyond Southwest Harbor, if the bill introduced by Senator Frederick Hale of Maine at the special session of Congress passes.  The bill provides for the transferring, as an addition to the park, that tract of land from the Navy Department to the Interior Department, the tract being no longer needed for naval purposes.
The Seawall Radio Station on Mount Desert Island was established during the World war to supplement, as a sending station the United States Naval Radio Station at Otter Creek, founded by the late Lieut. Allessandro Fabbri, of New York and Bar Harbor.  The Government, at the time of the founding of the supplementary or sub station, wished for the time to devote the main station to reception only.
The Seawall Station lies at the Southwestern extremity of the island as the Otter Creek Station, which the Government retains and operates, does at the southeastern, ten miles away.
To establish it the government purchased an abandoned farm in a remote and uninhabited section of the island, bordering the shore, but harbor less.  There are on it two metal towers for sending, connected with it wires in a cable running under the ocean, and there are also a house and a garage.
Meadows, the haunt of wild duck in fall, and cut over woodlands lie back of the tract, and as a shore-bird refuge the place is admirable.  For National Park purposes the lands of the station are desirable for picnic  grounds and desirable especially for motor camping, with opportunity for bathing and with the old fishing port of Bass Harbor two miles away providing boating facilitates and access to the island sheltered waterways extending to Penobscot Bay.  The contact with the sea, the beauty of the spot, the old sloping grassy pasture lands, and the fact that the tract is remote from residential districts make it an admirable tract for inclusion in the park.

PHOTO OF A RADIO TOWER