User:Tturn/Cadillac Mountain
Cadillac Mountain was originally inhabited by the Wabanaki People or the "People of the Dawn Land."[1] The Wabanaki consist of four tribes: Maliseet, Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot.[2] Mount Desert Island provided the Wabanaki with a place to meet, trade, fish, and hunt. Before its name Green Mountain, the natives referred to the mountain as Pesamkuk. In the 1500s, the natives were confronted with European colonization; however, they withstood the confrontation and continue to inhabit the land today.[1]
Before being renamed in 1918, the mountain had been called Green Mountain.[1] The new name honors the French explorer and adventurer Antoine de La Mothe Cadillac.[1] In 1688, De la Mothe requested and received from the Governor of New France a parcel of land in an area known as Donaquec which included part of the Donaquec River (now the Union River) and the island of Mount Desert in the present-day U.S. state of Maine. Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, a shameless self-promoter who had already appropriated the "de la Mothe" portion of his name from a local nobleman in his native Picardy, thereafter referred to himself as Antoine de la Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, Donaquec, and Mount Desert.[citation needed]
The summit also played a significant role during World War II as a base for early-warning warcraft detection. The mountain's height and location made it the ideal place for a radar facility to achieve strong signals.[1] Today the mountain continues to be used for communication by the police, National Park Service, Coast Guard, and fire department.[1]
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- ^ a b c d e f "Secrets of the Summit (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
- ^ "About the Wabanaki Nations". Abbe Museum. Retrieved 2023-03-19.