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...
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: ...History of the development of the rail line up Green (Cadillac) Mountain and its dismantlement...GreenMountain Cog Railway 1883-1890 Now on Mount Washington...
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: ...B/W 8x10 photograph looking down the rail tracks on GreenMountain with Eagle Lake in mid-distance and Eagle Lake Rd. and McFarland Hill in background...GreenMountain is now Cadillac Mountain...
Description: ...B/W photograph of GreenMountain locomotive pushing passenger car to top of mountain (now Cadillac Mountain). Engineer is Walter H. Dunton...
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: ...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: ...GreenMountain Railway. Steam engine pushing car up Cadillac Mountain. Letters on side of coal car read G.M. Ry. Letters on side of engine read Mt...