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5660Green Mountain Railway - View from Green Mountain to Steamboat Wharf on Eagle Lake
  • Image, Photograph
  • Transportation, Railroad
  • Bradley - Bryant Bradley (1838-1890)
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
Green Mountain Railway - View from Green Mountain to Steamboat Wharf on Eagle Lake
Item:
  • 5660   
Accession #:
  • 1033
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Transportation, Railroad
Creator:
  • Bradley - Bryant Bradley (1838-1890)
Place:
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Bryant Bradley Stereo Collection
12747Buckboard Party Passing Sand Beach
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Places, Shore
  • Transportation, Carriage
  • 1888-07-21
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
  • Sand Beach
From July 12 to July 24, 1888 a party of twenty young people who attended Westtown [Quaker] School vacationed on Mount Desert Island. The young people stayed at The Roberts House hotel in Northeast Harbor from July 14, 1888 to July 23, 1888. They wrote and privately published a journal of their adventures, with one person writing each chapter. The journal was illustrated with photographs hand tipped in to the pages. Judy and Peter Obbard, longtime summer residents of Southwest Harbor, have kindly loaned their copy of “Mount Desert Memories” to the Southwest Harbor Public Library to study. Here in the Tenth Day Chapter, written by Anna Helena Goodwin, the young people, aboard a buckboard, passed Sand Beach on July 21, 1888 Goodwin – Anna Helena Goodwin (1862-1958)
Buckboard Party Passing Sand Beach
Item:
  • 12747   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • People
  • Places, Shore
  • Transportation, Carriage
Date:
  • 1888-07-21
Place:
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • Sand Beach
Source:
  • Mount Desert Memories
Description:
From July 12 to July 24, 1888 a party of twenty young people who attended Westtown [Quaker] School vacationed on Mount Desert Island. The young people stayed at The Roberts House hotel in Northeast Harbor from July 14, 1888 to July 23, 1888. They wrote and privately published a journal of their adventures, with one person writing each chapter. The journal was illustrated with photographs hand tipped in to the pages. Judy and Peter Obbard, longtime summer residents of Southwest Harbor, have kindly loaned their copy of “Mount Desert Memories” to the Southwest Harbor Public Library to study. Here in the Tenth Day Chapter, written by Anna Helena Goodwin, the young people, aboard a buckboard, passed Sand Beach on July 21, 1888 Goodwin – Anna Helena Goodwin (1862-1958) [show more]
13316Green Mountain Railway
  • Reference
  • Places, Mountain
  • Transportation, Railroad
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
"GREEN MOUNTAIN - One of the chief points of interest on Mount Desert is Green Mountain, the highest point on the Island. Some ambitious persons make the ascent on foot, and that can best be done by way of the ruins of the old mill near the foot of Mount Kebo, and then by way of the ravine that separates Green from Dry Mountain. But by far the largest number prefer to go by the regular conveyance furnished by the Green Mountain Railway, which is by carriage to Eagle Lake, thence by steamer up the lake to the base, then by railway to the summit. This gives variety to the trip, and renders it a most enjoyable one. A clear, bright morning should be selected for this excursion, when objects can be seen at a great distance. The railway itself is a marvel of engineering skill, the entire length of the road being six thousand three hundred feet, and the grade averaging one foot to every four feet passed over. There is a good hotel at the summit which will accommodate about thirty guests. The view from Green Mountain, on a clear morning, is one never to be forgotten. The coast line with it many sinuosities, the numerous smaller islands scattered here and there, Mount Desert spread out like a map, and the island landscape with its diversity of views, all go to make up a succession of the grandest pictures imaginable…" - "Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island" by William Berry Lapham, p. 16 - 1887. "GREEN MOUNTAIN RAILWAY. No person should visit Bar Harbor without ascending Green Mountain by way of Eagle Lake and the Green Mountain Railway. The trip to Eagle Lake, three miles, is made in four-horse barges, which call for passengers at the principal hotels every week day morning during the season. The trip across Eagle Lake to the foot of the mountain is by steamer. The journey up the mountain and the magnificent outlook from the summit…" - Part of an advertisement appearing in Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island By William Berry Lapham – 1887. "I went up and back once about the year 1890 and there was 19 other young people from South West Harbor." - Robie M. Norwood. See “The Story of Bar Harbor – An Informal History Recording One Hundred and Fifty Years In the Life of a Community,” by Richard Walden Hale, Jr., p. 155-160, Ives Washburn, Inc., 1949 for an excellent version of the story of the Green Mountain Railway.
Green Mountain Railway
Item:
  • 13316   
Type:
  • Reference
Subject:
  • Places, Mountain
  • Transportation, Railroad
Place:
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
State:
  • ME
Description:
"GREEN MOUNTAIN - One of the chief points of interest on Mount Desert is Green Mountain, the highest point on the Island. Some ambitious persons make the ascent on foot, and that can best be done by way of the ruins of the old mill near the foot of Mount Kebo, and then by way of the ravine that separates Green from Dry Mountain. But by far the largest number prefer to go by the regular conveyance furnished by the Green Mountain Railway, which is by carriage to Eagle Lake, thence by steamer up the lake to the base, then by railway to the summit. This gives variety to the trip, and renders it a most enjoyable one. A clear, bright morning should be selected for this excursion, when objects can be seen at a great distance. The railway itself is a marvel of engineering skill, the entire length of the road being six thousand three hundred feet, and the grade averaging one foot to every four feet passed over. There is a good hotel at the summit which will accommodate about thirty guests. The view from Green Mountain, on a clear morning, is one never to be forgotten. The coast line with it many sinuosities, the numerous smaller islands scattered here and there, Mount Desert spread out like a map, and the island landscape with its diversity of views, all go to make up a succession of the grandest pictures imaginable…" - "Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island" by William Berry Lapham, p. 16 - 1887. "GREEN MOUNTAIN RAILWAY. No person should visit Bar Harbor without ascending Green Mountain by way of Eagle Lake and the Green Mountain Railway. The trip to Eagle Lake, three miles, is made in four-horse barges, which call for passengers at the principal hotels every week day morning during the season. The trip across Eagle Lake to the foot of the mountain is by steamer. The journey up the mountain and the magnificent outlook from the summit…" - Part of an advertisement appearing in Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island By William Berry Lapham – 1887. "I went up and back once about the year 1890 and there was 19 other young people from South West Harbor." - Robie M. Norwood. See “The Story of Bar Harbor – An Informal History Recording One Hundred and Fifty Years In the Life of a Community,” by Richard Walden Hale, Jr., p. 155-160, Ives Washburn, Inc., 1949 for an excellent version of the story of the Green Mountain Railway. [show more]
11248Postcard showing Green Mountain Railway, Mt. Desert, Maine and Sternwheel Steamer "Wauwinet"
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Transportation, Railroad
  • 1880 c.
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
Postcard showing Green Mountain Railway, Mt. Desert, Maine and Sternwheel Steamer "Wauwinet"
Item:
  • 11248   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
Subject:
  • Transportation, Railroad
Date:
  • 1880 c.
Place:
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
State:
  • ME
6329Green Mountain Railway Terminal at Eagle Lake
  • Image, Photograph
  • Transportation, Railroad
  • 1880 c.
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
Green Mountain Railway Terminal at Eagle Lake
Item:
  • 6329   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Transportation, Railroad
Date:
  • 1880 c.
Place:
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
State:
  • ME
6330Green Mountain Railway
  • Image, Photograph
  • Transportation, Railroad
  • 1883
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
Green Mountain Railway
Item:
  • 6330   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Transportation, Railroad
Date:
  • 1883
Place:
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
State:
  • ME
Tags:
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5536Green Mountain Railway
  • Image, Photograph
  • Transportation, Railroad
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
Green Mountain Railway
Item:
  • 5536   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Transportation, Railroad
Place:
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
State:
  • ME
5537Green Mountain Railway
  • Image, Photograph
  • Transportation, Railroad
  • 1882
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
Green Mountain Railway
Item:
  • 5537   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Transportation, Railroad
Date:
  • 1882
Place:
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
State:
  • ME
5534Green Mountain Railway
  • Image, Photograph
  • Transportation, Railroad
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
Green Mountain Railway
Item:
  • 5534   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Transportation, Railroad
Place:
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
State:
  • ME
5661Green Mountain Railway
  • Image, Photograph
  • Transportation, Railroad
  • Bradley - Bryant Bradley (1838-1890)
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
Green Mountain Railway
Item:
  • 5661   
Accession #:
  • 1032
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Transportation, Railroad
Creator:
  • Bradley - Bryant Bradley (1838-1890)
Place:
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
State:
  • ME
Source:
  • Bryant Bradley Collection