Description: ..."GREENMOUNTAIN - One of the chief points of interest on Mount Desert is GreenMountain, the highest point on the Island...But by far the largest number prefer to go by the regular conveyance furnished by the GreenMountain Railway, which is by carriage to Eagle Lake, thence...The view from GreenMountain, on a clear morning, is one never to be forgotten..."GREENMOUNTAIN RAILWAY. No person should visit Bar Harbor without ascending GreenMountain by way of Eagle Lake and the GreenMountain Railway...
File Attachment: Green Mountain Railway-uncompressed.pdf …The Islander Magazine In 1883 it took 30 minutes to reach the top of GreenMountain on the new cog railway. …, and then they would be ready for the first public ascent up GreenMountain (now Cadillac Mountain) on the cog railroad. …Dunton, the owner of the Eagle Lake side of GreenMountain, asking permission to use his land. …During its first season, which ended in mid September, the GreenMountain Railway carried a total of 2,967 people.
File Attachment: Green Mountain Railway newspaper-uncompressed.pdf …GreenMountain It is said that the idea of a cog railway on GreenMountain (now Cadillac Mountain), Mt. …Washington cog railway and one in Switzerland and wondered why a similar means had not been used on GreenMountain. …Taken not far from where the old Mountain Road now crosses the GreenMountain Railway roadbed and looks down on the base station at Eagle Lake. …Washington and the record time down GreenMountain to the base was one and a quarter minutes.
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: ...Boyden Gray, Inez Great Duck Island Green, Joe GreenMountain Railway H Hadlock, Elmer Hadlock, Wendell S. Hagberg, Karol Hall, Thomas S...
File Attachment: Rivers Clippings Alphabetical Files b.pdf …Boyden Gray, Inez Great Duck Island Green, Joe GreenMountain Railway CONTENT - Rooting out the waste: A commission urges savings at the Pentagon …: Joe Green beams proudly in his new armchair, a Christmas present from many, many friends , The Bar Harbor Times, December 28, 1978 - GreenMountain …Railway operated over 33-50% grade from lake - Several photographs depicting the Summit House (1885) and the first hotel (1860 s) on GreenMountain …(Cadillac Mountain), The Bar Harbor Times, October 3, 1963 H Hadlock, Elmer Hadlock, Wendell S.
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: ...Bar Harbor from Summit of GreenMountain 2. Great Head and Newport Sands 3. Schooner Head 4. GreenMountain Railway, 500 Feet Grade 5...GreenMountain Railway Station at Base of GreenMountain 10. Summit House on GreenMountain 11. Steamer Wauwinet on Eagle Lake 12. Eagle Lake 13...GreenMountain Railway, - The Gulch 15. Otter Cliffs 16. View from Otter Cliff 17. Bar Harbor...
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: ...White souvenir plate with scalloped edges and blue illustrations depicting the Rodrick House, Balance Rock, a birds eye view of Bar Harbor, the GreenMountain...
Description: ...Postcard size (3" X 5") photograph in sepia of GreenMouontain Railway, Mt. Desert, Me. The photo. is number 50 and mounted on hard card stock...
Description: ...Card with double image of railway car ascending Cadillac Mountain, #207, Green Mount Railway, Mt. Desert, Me, R.H. Hysom written in ink on back side...
Description: ...Card with double image of railway tracks and the station at the bottom, GreenMountain Railway, Mt. Desert, Me, n.d., unknown photographer,l #126...
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...