Description: ...The Mountain House, built in 1866, was the first hotel to be built on what was then GreenMountain, now Cadillac Mountain..."Daniel Brewer's Mountain House operated through the early 1880's, offering simple, but hearty meals and modest overnight lodging...." - Steam to the Summit: The GreenMountain Railway - Bar Harbor’s Remarkable Cog Railroad, by Peter Dow Bachelder, p. 24 - 2005...This building was replaced with a much larger structure, The GreenMountain House, when the GreenMountain Railway was built in 1883...
Description: ...From 1883 to 1890 a cog railway ran up the slopes of today's Cadillac Mountain; the railway was the inspiration of Francis (Frank) Clerque...
Description: ...This view shows the small hotel perched on the bare granite summit of the mountain...The Mountain House, built in 1866, was the first hotel to be built on what was then GreenMountain, now Cadillac Mountain...." - Steam to the Summit: The GreenMountain Railway - Bar Harbor’s Remarkable Cog Railroad, by Peter Dow Bachelder, p. 24 - 2005...This building was replaced with a much larger structure, The GreenMountain House, when the GreenMountain Railway was built in 1883...
Description: ...Color negative of a Long upgrade view, GreenMountain Railway. [Made by Ballard] from a B. Bradley print; stereopticon card double view...GreenMountain Railway, Mt. Desert, Me...
Description: ...Color negative of GreenMountain Railway tracks, looking down grade; Eagle Lake below; about 1883. Stereo. Two copies [by Ballard] from a B...GreenMountain Railway, Mt. Desert, Me...
Description: ...Photograph of GreenMountain Railway steam engine pushing car up Cadillac Mountain. Marked on back: "W.H. Ballard Collection...GreenMountain Railway by Bryant Bradley. Circa 1883) 8x10...
Description: ...GreenMountain Railway. Looking down tracks to Eagle Lake. Logs lie to left of tracks. Marked W.H. Ballard Collection Southwest Harbor, Maine...Also marked, “GreenMoutain Railway By Bryant Bradley. Circa 1883. Bryant Bradley was born near 1840. His wife’s name was Ellen...
Description: ...Chapters on: Indians and explorers; Jesuits; de Gregoire; Bernard; Wreck of the Grand Design; British Navy; Early settlers; Summer visitors; Green...Mountain Railway; Navy; Social Life; Bar Harbor fire; Jackson Lab; Acadia National Park...
Description: ...History of the development of the rail line up Green (Cadillac) Mountain and its dismantlement...GreenMountain Cog Railway 1883-1890 Now on Mount Washington...