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Green Mountain House - New and Open for Business. Southwest Harbor Public Library	Image, Photograph	Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel		1883	Acadia National Park, HCTPR	No Copyright - United States	Green Mountain House - New and Open for Business. Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-6323 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Structures, Commercial, Lodging, Hotel Date: 1883 Place: Acadia National Park, HCTPR Description: Francis Hector Clergue built the Green Mountain House in 1883, adjacent to the old Mountain House on the summit of Green Mountain, now Cadillac Mountain, to, serve patrons of his Green Mountain Railway, a cog railroad, which chugged up the mountain from Eagle Lake. Both the old and new structures burned to the ground on August 2, 1884. “1884, August 2. The burning of a hotel on Green Mountain, Mount Desert, in the evening, was plainly seen from Belfast, at a distance of fifty miles.” – “History of the City of Belfast in the State of Maine: From Its First Settlement in 1770 to 1875” by Joseph Williamson, p. 241 – 1913. Frank Clergue immediately replaced this structure with a smaller hotel and his business continued as noted in the review below. "...A Good Hotel Is At The Summit, where persons desiring it can find pleasant accomodations for a longer or shorter stay. Round trip tickets can be had of the company's agent, on Main Street, Bar Harbor. F.H. Clergue, President." - Part of an advertisement appearing in Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island by William Berry Lapham - 1887. [show more]
Green Mountain Railway Excursion Steamer Wauwinet on Eagle Lake Southwest Harbor Public Library	Image, Photograph	Vessels, Steamboat		1883 c.	Acadia National Park, HCTPR	No Copyright - United States	Green Mountain Railway Excursion Steamer Wauwinet on Eagle Lake Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-5530 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Vessels, Steamboat Date: 1883 c. Place: Acadia National Park, HCTPR
Rusticators Above Spouting Horn Southwest Harbor Public Library	Image, Photograph	People Places, Shore	Allen - Warren P. Allen (1843-1905)	1884	Acadia National Park, HCTPR	No Copyright - United States	Rusticators Above Spouting Horn Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-12735 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: People Places, Shore Creator: Allen - Warren P. Allen (1843-1905) Date: 1884 Place: Acadia National Park, HCTPR Description: Plate 13 from: Allen, Warren P. Mount Desert Souvenir : Fifteenth annual excursion of the Massachusetts Press Association, July 5-9, 1884 (Charles W. Eddy, Ware, Massachusetts, 1884).
Buckboard Party Passing Sand Beach Southwest Harbor Public Library	Image, Photograph	People Places, Shore Transportation, Carriage		1888-07-21	Acadia National Park, HCTPR	No Copyright - United States	Buckboard Party Passing Sand Beach Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-12747 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: People Places, Shore Transportation, Carriage Date: 1888-07-21 Place: Acadia National Park, HCTPR 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]
Postcard showing Green Mountain Railway, Mt. Desert, Maine and Sternwheel Steamer "Wauwinet" Southwest Harbor Public Library	Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard	Transportation, Railroad		1880 c.	Acadia National Park, HCTPR	Copyright Not Evaluated	Postcard showing Green Mountain Railway, Mt. Desert, Maine and Sternwheel Steamer "Wauwinet" Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-11248 Type: Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard Subject: Transportation, Railroad Date: 1880 c. Place: Acadia National Park, HCTPR
Green Mountain Railway Terminal at Eagle Lake Southwest Harbor Public Library	Image, Photograph	Transportation, Railroad		1880 c.	Acadia National Park, HCTPR	No Copyright - United States	Green Mountain Railway Terminal at Eagle Lake Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-6329 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Transportation, Railroad Date: 1880 c. Place: Acadia National Park, HCTPR
Green Mountain Railway Southwest Harbor Public Library	Image, Photograph	Transportation, Railroad		1883	Acadia National Park, HCTPR	No Copyright - United States	Green Mountain Railway Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-6330 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Transportation, Railroad Date: 1883 Place: Acadia National Park, HCTPR
Green Mountain Railway Southwest Harbor Public Library	Image, Photograph	Transportation, Railroad		1882	Acadia National Park, HCTPR	No Copyright - United States	Green Mountain Railway Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-5537 Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Transportation, Railroad Date: 1882 Place: Acadia National Park, HCTPR

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