Chronicles of the White Mountains . e Mountain region nowform a part of the Boston and Maine Railroad sys-tem, which controls nearly all the railroads in theGranite State. The lines up the Connecticut River from Spring-field, Massachusetts, which city was connected byrail with Hartford, Connecticut, in 1844, were openedat various times. The principal links in the northernpart of this the most direct route from New YorkCity to the White Mountains were the ConnecticutRiver Railroad, opened to South Vernon, JanuaryI, 1849; the Vermont Valley Railroad, Brattleboroto Bellows Falls, opened in 1851;
Chronicles of the White Mountains . e Mountain region nowform a part of the Boston and Maine Railroad sys-tem, which controls nearly all the railroads in theGranite State. The lines up the Connecticut River from Spring-field, Massachusetts, which city was connected byrail with Hartford, Connecticut, in 1844, were openedat various times. The principal links in the northernpart of this the most direct route from New YorkCity to the White Mountains were the ConnecticutRiver Railroad, opened to South Vernon, JanuaryI, 1849; the Vermont Valley Railroad, Brattleboroto Bellows Falls, opened in 1851; the Sullivan CountyRailroad, Bellows Falls to Windsor, opened in Feb-ruary, 1849, and sold October i, 1880, to the Ver-mont Valley Railroad; and the Connecticut andPassumpsic Rivers Railroad, from White RiverJunction on. All these lines were eventually leasedto the Boston and Maine. Another important means of rendering the Moun-tains accessible by rail was undertaken in the earlyseventies in the construction of the Portland and 226. XuHOZ a oi o w <O W DO O w X THE RAILROADS Ogdensburg Railroad, so called, some one has face-tiously remarked, because it started from Portlandand never reached Ogdensburg. To two brothers, cit-izens of the State of Maine, belongs the credit for thebuilding of this railroad, which vies with the MountWashington Railway as a conception and achieve-ment and in scenic interest. General Samuel J. An-derson, of Portland, was the foremost promoter ofthe road and its first president. Being, says in her article on Conway, a gifted and per-suasive speaker, it was easy for him to induce thetown of Conway to raise five per cent of its valuationfor the building of theroad. John Farwell Anderson,of South Windham, Maine, was the engineer. Main-taining that the gorges of the Crawford Notch couldbe bridged, he accomplished the feat after it hadbeen repeatedly declared impossible by other engi-neers. The company was chartered in February,1867, and in fou
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