Description: ...White souvenir plate with scalloped edges and blue illustrations depicting the Rodrick House, Balance Rock, a birds eye view of Bar Harbor, the GreenMountain...
Mount Desert Island Historical Society Bicentennial Committee
Date:
1961
Description: ...Desert Island during WW II, 2) village of Town Hill, 3) development of buildings on Green [later Cadillac] Mountain, 4)GreenMountain Railway and connecting...
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: ...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: ...(See 013.FIC.36B.14 for photos of this program trip) Steam to the Summit, GreenMountain Railway, with Peter Dow Bachelder, Aug. 12 Corner with a Past...
Description: ...Three biographical articles about Francis Hector Clergue of Brewer, Maine who was developing Bar Harbor as a tourist center and who built the GreenMountain...
Description: ...Francis Hector Clergue built the GreenMountain House in 1883, adjacent to the old Mountain House on the summit of GreenMountain, now Cadillac Mountain..., to, serve patrons of his GreenMountain Railway, a cog railroad, which chugged up the mountain from Eagle Lake...The burning of a hotel on GreenMountain, Mount Desert, in the evening, was plainly seen from Belfast, at a distance of fifty miles.” – “History of the...
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: ...Passenger cars and locomotive of the GreenMountain Railway at Eagle Lake shore. The locomotive was taken for use on Mt. Washington...GreenMountain is now Cadillac Mountain...
Description: ...Black and white photo. of GreenMountain Cog Railway tracks on Cadillac Mountain. Eagle Lake in background. Sawed logs beside track. Framed...
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...