Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Object # |
2004.006.048 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Description |
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 wide veranda on Great Hill in East Marion and called it the Marion House. After the Civil War families from Boston, Providence and New York came there for the summer. same as 2004.006.054 |
Search Terms |
Great Hill Estate Marion House |
People |
Rogers, Henry Searles, John E. |
Place |
Marion, Mass/Sippican Hotel/Marion House |
Title |
The Marion House Great Hill |
Subjects |
Civil War |
Caption |
The Marion House Great Hill |
Accession number |
2004.006 |