Keywords: Mountain Lake
Item 19216
Green Mountain Railroad, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: circa 1900 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Postcard
Item 21071
Green Mountain Advertisement, ca. 1885
Contributed by: Great Harbor Maritime Museum Date: circa 1885 Location: Bar Harbor; Bar Harbor Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
After the canoe, steamboats became the favored method of transportation on Moosehead Lake. They revolutionized movement of logs and helped promote tourism in the region.
Exhibit
Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Porter Lake
"Porter Lake is west of the New Vineyard Mountains. Many inlets supply the lake from all sides, as well as natural springs."
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Green Mountain Railway
"Green Mountain had been the site of a hotel since about 1866 when Daniel Brewer create a carriage trail to the top and built a hotel."
Story
Norcross Deer Hunting
by Albert Fowler
How hunting has impacted my life
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down
