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1. 2004.006.048 - Print, Photographic

   The Marion House Great Hill, Marion, Mass. In 1855 the first trains came to Marion drawn by a wood-burning engine with a red smokestack and a brass-bound boiler. The former stage coach driver took the tickets, and the brakeman was Henry H. Rogers, the future millionaire of Fairhaven. This new fangled device made the town more accessible than previously, and in 1860 the president of the bank in Wareham built a big, square wooden hotel with a wid...

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2. 2004.006.054 - Print, Photographic

   The Marion House, summer residence of John E. Searles, now Great Hill, Marion, Mass. The house is gone. Was a hotel for many years, but then bought by Nickerson for private home. Same as 2004.006.048

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3. 2005.011.119 - Print, Photographic

   The Marion house, Great Hill (John E. Searles, owner). In late 1800's, became hotel.

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4. 2008.001.119 - Digital photograph

   Great Estates - The main drive approaching the north-facing fa fade of Great Hill, the Galen L. Stone estate off Delano Road in East Marion. Mr. Stone, a Boston investment banker, purchased the property in 1909 from a real-estate syndicate that had planned to subdivide the large tract of land known from Indian times as "Great Hill" into five-acre parcels. At the time, a large resort hotel called Marion House, built in 1860, occupied the site. Alt...

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5. 2008.015.216 - Digital image

   Great Hill - Great Hill as of 2000, site of the first Marion hotel, Marion House, built in 1860

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6. 2010.002.001 - Print, Photographic

   An undated sepia photograph of Marion House on Great Hill taken from the Weweantic River. It is 5 3/16" W by 4 3/16" H.

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7. 2016.038.038 - Newspaper

   "Great Hill home set in stone" is about Great Hill, the site of Marion's first summer hotel, the Marion House. In 1909, Galen Stone, bought the property. In 1911, the Stones moved into a massive summer "castle".

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8. L103.054 - Digital photograph

   Stone Estate at Great Hill, Marion, MA. - Great Hill Buzzards Bay Album - black & white picture of the Marion House Hotel. It was built in 1860, it was the first summer hotel in Marion. It accommodated 300 summer guests. Albert Nickerson bought the hotel, in 1880, after his family was asked to leave the hotel because his children had developed German measles. Galen L. Stone had the hotel demolished when he purchased the property.

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9. L103.062 - Digital photograph

   Stone Estate at Great Hill, Marion, MA. - Great Hill Buzzards Bay Album - black & white picture of the shore line including the staff beach and bath house.and the Marion House Hotel before it was torn down.

   Record Type: Photo