Description: There were three grand summit houses that stood at the summit of Mount Tom, in Holyoke Massachusetts, from 1897 until 1938. Guests included President William McKinley. The first summit house burned to the ground in 1900, replaced by the second and grandest of the three hotels, seven stories tall, built in 1901 and burned in 1929. A third structure, made of sheet metal, was built afterward but was unpopular and dismantled for scrap in 1938. When the second summit house burned to the ground in 1929, the ruins were bulldozed over the side of the mountain. A little over 50 years ago, when I was a teenager, a friend and I took multiple hikes to the disposal site, dug by hand through poison ivy and rattlesnake dens, bringing back burlap bags full of dozens of unbroken bottles that had survived the fire and had been abandoned for 40 years. This pretty little “small picnic” bottle is typical of my collection. The base is embossed “H J HEINZ CO. 143 PATD.”, and the bottle was used to hold sour onions, chow-chow pickles, sour spiced gherkins, sour mixed pickles, pickled onions and sweet gherkins. It is 6.5 inches tall. The mold seams suggest that it was machine made after 1900, and these bottles were known to be used between 1920 and 1937.
Price: 25 USD
Location: Haydenville, Massachusetts
End Time: 2024-02-03T00:10:32.000Z
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Region of Origin: Massachusetts
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Type: Bottle
