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| • | Green Mountain is a small community located in New Brunswick's York County in the southwestern portion of the province. The community is known for its scenic views of the surrounding land including Mount Katahdin in the state of Maine and East Grand Lake which is serves as the boundary between the United States and Canada.
Green Mountain has its roots in the farming and forestry industries, with much of the mountain being cleared in the early to mid 1800s to allow for such industry to expand and grow. The community had a school, post office, and church to serve the needs of the population.
As time wore on, the population dwindled and farming became less attractive with the rocky and clay soil conditions. Today, forestry and construction are the only means of employment for the community's small population. Many of the residents commute to locations as far away as Fredericton and Woodstock to work. Home construction boomed in the mid and late 1990s as several new cottages were constructed on the shores of East Grand Lake.
Today, few people reside in the small border community, with the number of summer cottage owners likely surpassing the number of full time residents.
The following is how Inez (Foster) Lounder described the community as recorded in her notes December 20, 1910:
'Green Mountain is situated on the Eastern bank of the Grand Chipineticook Lake, Grand Lake being one of the lakes that form part of the boundary line between the Province of New Brunswick and the State of Maine. The place is about 22 miles from Canterbury and about 18 miles from Danforth and Forest Station; the latter two stations being situated on the line of the Maine Central Railway in the State of Maine.
The first settler that came to this place was Elias Foster in the year of 1853. When he first came here he lived in a log house on the farm occupied now by W.B. Foster. He lived there about a year and then moved up to the farm occupied now by J.L. Foster. He and his wife and two children lived there for two years with no settlers any nearer than Fosterࢀ&#-2509; Corner -- now called Fosterville, with the exception of two young men who lived here in the summer seasons on the farms occupied now by H.H. Veysey and George McMinn. The next settler that came was William Rollins who l
Source: [wikipedia: green mountain, new brunswick]
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