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Green Mountain Railway
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Mountain
  • Transportation, Railroad
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Green Mountain Railway
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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...Harbor and Mount Desert Island" by William Berry Lapham, p. 16 - 1887...No person should visit Bar Harbor without ascending Green Mountain by way of Eagle Lake and the Green Mountain Railway...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...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...
The Cross on Flying Mountain, Acadia National Park - a Mystery Unraveled
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Mountain
  • Lenahan - Donald Patrick Lenahan
  • 2014-10-22
  • In Copyright
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2014-10-22 The Cross on Flying Mountain, Acadia National Park -- a Mystery Unraveled.pdf
…Eyebolts Cut rod and brace What these iron relics are is revealed in a 1924 Bar Harbor Times photograph, which shows a cross on top of Flying Mountain …"*2 Bar Harbor Times The wooden cross was designed for Aimee (Rotch) Sargent, wife of Winthrop Sargent, summer residents of Northeast Harbor, by the …Saviour Episcopal Church in Bar Harbor and other structures on Mount Desert Island. …*Footnotes: 1 Bar Harbor Times, March 19, 1924, p. 3. 2 Eliot retired as president of Harvard in 1909, a position he had held for 40 years.
Skiing on Mount Desert Island - a Look Back
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Mountain
  • Lenahan - Donald Patrick Lenahan
  • 2014-02-24
  • In Copyright
Skiing on Mount Desert Island - a Look Back
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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2014-02-24 Skiing on Mount Desert Island -- a Look Back.pdf
…This type of chancy skiing changed somewhat in 1936 with the establishment of a formal downhill enterprise on McFarland Hill in Bar Harbor. …McFarland Field today looking north to McFarland Hill *Footnotes: 1 These downhill venues are mentioned in numerous Bar Harbor Times articles of the MDI …from the summit to the Featherbed; and the old carriage road refers to the historic buckboard road that once ran from Eagle Lake Road to the summit. 2 BarHarbor Times, December 19, 1940, p.1. 3 Bar Harbor Times, September 12, 1940, p.1. 4 A special thanks to Messrs.
Acadia National Park's Little-Known Mountain
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Mountain
  • Lenahan - Donald Patrick Lenahan
  • 2014-06-04
  • In Copyright
Acadia National Park's Little-Known Mountain
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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2014-06-04 Acadia National Park's Little-Known Mountain.pdf
…In 1896 it was changed to "Dan Brewers Mt" on the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association's Bates-Rand-Jaques Path Map of the Eastern Part of Mount …In 1866 he built the first hotel on it, the Mountain House, overlooking Bar Harbor from its prominent 1530' summit.
New Facts Concerning the Cross on Flying Mountain
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Mountain
  • Lenahan - Donald Patrick Lenahan
  • 2015-01-26
  • In Copyright
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2015-01-26 New Facts Concerning the Cross on Flying Mountain.pdf
…Thanks to Hannah Stevens, archivist at the Northeast Harbor Library, and a letter she discovered in records of The Knowles Company founder Belle Smallidge …Lewis, a Philadelphian, and Cromwell, a New Yorker, both Northeast Harbor summer residents, were members of a committee attempting to acquire the mountains …Cornelius Smith and his wife Mary Wheeler who were pioneers of the summer colony at Northeast Harbor 1886-1913." …Cooksey Drive; the memorial was moved in the 1970s to a spot near the Route 3 entrance to the Day Mountain path]) and Eliza Lee Homans of Boston and Bar
Huguenot Head
Pickett Mountain
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Places, Mountain
  • Bar Harbor
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Huguenot Head
Pickett Mountain
Southwest Harbor Public Library