The Daily Maine Fact from Around Maine: Free Enterprise Department: Owners of a cog railway that carried passengers up Cadillac Mountain, on Mount Desert Island, did not appreciate the competition from a carriage road. They put gates across the road but these, naturally, were torn down. Next, they hired 16 men to mine the road with dynamite and blow it up. The road was rebuilt and the railroad failed in 1893. (Source: The Story of Bar Harbor: An Informal History Recording One Hundred and Fifty Years in the Life of a Community, by Richard Walden Hale, Jr. New York: Ives Washburn, Inc., 1949.)
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