Description: Vintage Postcard Mountain House Monadnock Mountain Peterborough Jaffrey NH 1906. Condition is consistent with normal wear on an old postcard. May have creases, corner tears, fading, stains, ink/writing, etc. Please see photos for condition and contact seller with questions. Thanks! From Wikipedia: In 1858, Moses Cudworth of Rindge opened the "Halfway House" hotel on the south side of the mountain, roughly halfway from the base to the summit. The "Toll Road" was built to service it. By that time the popularity of the mountain was booming, and it was not long before Cudworth enlarged the hotel to accommodate 100 guests. On busy summer days, the stables at the Halfway House held as many as 75 horses. The Halfway House became public property when hundreds of residents of the nearby towns formed a coalition to buy the Toll Road and hotel, and worked to prevent a radio tower from being constructed on the summit. After the hotel burned down in 1954, a concession stand operated at the site until 1969. It and the toll road were both closed to public vehicles. Moses Spring, with its source in a hole drilled through a rock behind the site, is one of the few remaining artifacts of the hotel years. The foundations of two water tanks, and the nearby reservoir that fed them, are extant on the hillside above the Old Halfway House. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Margaret Fuller visited the mountain and wrote fondly of it. Emerson was a frequent visitor, and made the mountain the subject of "Monadnoc", one of his most famous poems. Thoreau visited the mountain four times between 1844 and 1860, and spent a great deal of time observing and cataloging natural phenomena. He is regarded as having written one of the first serious naturalist inventories of the mountain. A bog near the summit of Mount Monadnock and a rocky lookout off the Cliff Walk trail are named after him; another lookout is named after Emerson.
Price: 12.9 USD
Location: Monmouth Junction, New Jersey
End Time: 2023-12-27T14:50:24.000Z
Shipping Cost: 1 USD
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Item Specifics
Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Unit of Sale: Single Unit
Occasion: Any
Size: Standard (5.5 x 3.5 in)
Year Manufactured: 1906
Material: Cardboard
City: Jaffrey
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Subject: Mountain House Hotel
Type: Printed (Lithograph)
Continent: North America
Era: Undivided Back (1901-1907)
Region: New Hampshire
Country: United States
Theme: Architecture, Cities & Towns, Community Life, Famous Places, Greetings, Hotel & Restaurant, Landscapes, Tourism, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Manadnoc Poem, Henry David Thoreau, Halfway House
Features: Undivided Back
Time Period Manufactured: 1900-1919
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Postage Condition: Posted
