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| Keywords: Mussoorie, distant view, 1865.jpg Mussoorie distant view Dehradun district Uttarakhand 1865 jpg http //www collectbritain co uk/personalisation/object cfm uid 019PHO000000394U00037000 British Library - Distant view of the church Mussoorie 1865 anonymous PD-old-70-1923 From the Original folio - This photograph shows a view of the Himalayan town of Mussorrie taken in 1865 Mussoorie became a hill-station or British Colonial resort in 1826 In 1827 a sanitorium was built at Landour which later became a large cantonment or permanent military base and Mussoorie and Landour eventually grew togther to form a single town Colonel Everest the Surveyor-General after whom Mount Everest was named built a home in Mussoorie in 1832 and also opened the Survey of India office As a large number of children spent the greater part of the year in Mussoorie it became a centre for education Many of these schools are still in existence today Mussoorie Historical images of Uttarakhand 1865 in India | ||||
