Maine Diaries - Mount Battie

All I could see from where I stood
Was three long mountains and a wood;
I turned and looked another way,
And saw three islands in a bay.

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)

https://flic.kr/p/2oD6d2s View of Penobscot Bay

Mount Battie in Camden Maine is 780 feet high, just shy of the official mountain height of 1000 feet. However the 360 degree view of Penobscot Bay, Islands and Mountains is outstanding which merits calling it a mountain.

https://flic.kr/p/2oD7GDj Penobscot Bayhttps://flic.kr/p/2oD2V4U View from Mount Battie

In 1921, the Mt. Battie Association erected the stone tower that now stands on the exact location of Summit House. Iron pins that anchored the old building can still be seen in the rock around the tower. The 26-foot structure was designed by one of Camden’s summer residents, Parker Morse Hooper. The Hooper design is almost an exact replica of an existing tower found in Newport, Rhode Island.

https://flic.kr/p/2oD7owe WWI Memorial Tower erected 1921

In grateful recognition of the services of the men and women of Camden in the World War, 1914-1918.

Inscription on tower