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: ...Black and white photo. of GreenMountain Cog Railway tracks on Cadillac Mountain. Eagle Lake in background. Sawed logs beside track. Framed...
Description: ...GreenMountain Cog Railway engine with Eagle Lake in background. Lumber pile near track. Man in hat and long coat stands next to track...
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: ...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: ...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: ...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 photograph of GreenMountain locomotive pushing passenger car to top of mountain (now Cadillac Mountain). Engineer is Walter H. Dunton...
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...
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...