All I could see from where I stood
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
Was three long mountains and a wood;
I turned and looked another way,
And saw three islands in a 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.
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.
In grateful recognition of the services of the men and women of Camden in the World War, 1914-1918.
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