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Old 01-06-2005, 12:20 PM   #7
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Default Belknap Point, Glendale

Heading up toward Belknap Point, one can clearly see the tracks passing in front of the Lincoln Cottage.

This was in the area where Benjamin Kimball was building Kimball's Castle. He was a railroad executive from Concord who used the railroad to bring in many of the supplies for his castle. He had his own private rail car that was parked on a spur by the lake while he was at the castle. At one time workers were boarded on a steamship docked at the Belknap Point Station.

Concerning the building of the Castle, "The stone used to build the castle was hauled to the building site by oxen from the construction site on the south side of Locke’s hill, but since a part of the Lakeshore Railroad just happened to run by the site, the cut granite used for the parapets was hauled by rail from Concord. An English architect, who also made all of the interior furnishings, designed most of the woodwork and ironwork. Then it was shipped over to Boston by boat, where it traveled to Locke’s hill on the Lakeshore line. However, oxen carried it directly to the castle and it was then re-assembled inside."
From a Web Page on KIMBALL'S CASTLE
Click here for more postcard views of the Castle

(From the mcdude Collection) View from near Glendale

(From the mcdude Collection) View from the Boston and Maine Railroad with a view of the old Mt. Washington Steamer.
Next stop is Gilford which may have also been known as Sanders....as in Sanders Bay.
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Next stop is Lily Pond.

Eventually the track crosses the main drag (Union Avenue?) near the McDonald's and goes up along the bay to Lakeport.

Lakeport was the terminus of the Lakeshore Line.

(From the mcdude Collection)
Here it intersected with the main rail route that has come up along the Merrimac River and is heading to the White Mountains. Along this line you could head for Laconia, the Weirs or Meredith.

The Lakeshore Line tracks were ripped up in the late 1930s.

from the Lacpicguy collection - added 12/11/13 thanks Lacpicguy!!

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