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Barnard's station

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John McNamara:
Jeff’s July 22 post mentions Barnard and Ingall’s suggesting two separate places. Does anyone have a TT that would help?

Bruce Wilson:
Jeff, I have been searching for any info on Barnard's station and have found nothing to date. Within my own collection of B& SR RR Excursion Tickets (special) I found two other destinations that may have been flag stops. I have a single ticket (serial no. A41571) and dater canceled June 11, 1930 with rubber stamped "Twin Lakes" to "Lakeside". There are two different sets of two Conductors punch impressions. I wondered if this ticket is something made up by the late 1930's railfans who came to try to save the railroad. All of my other Excursion Tickets are dater stamped for the late 1880's or early 1890's. Lastly, I found five Excursion Tickets with penciled in "Bridgton to Withams" canceled in 1887 and 1888. From my June 25, 1906 B & SR RR timetable, there is a listing of hotels and boarding houses, I found two different "Lakeside" establishments (that may have been flag stops or stage connections). One was in Bridgton with the Proprietor having been Jno. Cobb & Son and another in Harrison, kept by a Mrs. Jo's. McAllister. Can anyone add information as to where the Barnard's, Lakeside and Withams passengers and baggage may have been dropped?

Dana Deering:
Might that have been an earlier name for South Bridgton station?  Or maybe Kenner’s?  I think there was a station at Ingalls Road and one of the other locations near the hamlet of South Bridgton.

Regarding Witham’s that was my great great great grandfather’s place on Hancock Pond not too far from the first location of the West Sebago station.

Dana Deering:
I may be way off but some little bell is going off in the back of my mind saying that it was near Barnards that the train hit the moose in the late 1880s. The leg was mounted and is in the Bridgton Historical Society museum with a plaque.  I’m not home at the moment so I can check my reference material.

I also recall that I was told that the train used to stop at Withams during the boarding season to pick up and drop off mail.

Mike Fox:
I wonder if "Lakeside" was the Station that is in the czmpgtound on the Harrison Branch. It has been converted (or had last time I went through the campground) to a rest room for the campground. It was still located along the grade. It is one of 3 buildings left of the Railroad. The others being North Bridgton Freight House and Bennets Camp on Hancock Pond.

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