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The White Mountains also include the Franconia Range, Sandwich Range, Carter-Moriah Range and Kinsman Range in New Hampshire, and the Mahoosuc Range straddling the border between it and Maine. In all, there are 48 peaks within New Hampshire as well as one (Old Speck Mountain) in Maine over 4,000 feet (1,200 m), known as the four-thousand footers.
On the Road North of Boston: New Hampshire Taverns and Turnpikes, 1700-1900. Concord, NH: New Hampshire Historical Society, 1988. ISBN 978-1-58465-321-9. Henderson, John J. Incomparable Scenery: Comparative Views in the White Mountains. Center Harbor, NH: Glen-Bartlett Publishing Company, 1999. ISBN 978-0-9602802-1-6. Keyes, Donald D. et al.
The Crawford Path ascending Mount Pierce, September 2014. The Crawford Path is an 8.5-mile-long (13.7 km) hiking trail in the White Mountains of New Hampshire that is considered to be the United States' oldest continuously maintained hiking trail. [1]
A mature frontier: the New Hampshire economy 1790–1850 Historical New Hampshire 24#1 (1969) 3–19. Squires, J. Duane. The Granite State of the United States: A History of New Hampshire from 1623 to the Present (1956) vol 1; Stackpole, Everett S. History of New Hampshire (4 vol 1916–1922) vol 4 online covers Civil War and late 19th century
The Tenth New Hampshire Turnpike from Portsmouth was extended through the notch to Lancaster in 1803. [2] [3] The turnpike and later Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad through Crawford Notch opened a new route through the White Mountains for settlers of the area to the northwest to reach Conway on the way to the trading ports on the coast.
Mount Lafayette is a 5,249-foot (1,600 m) [1] mountain at the northern end of the Franconia Range in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, United States.It lies in the town of Franconia in Grafton County, and appears on the New England Fifty Finest list of the most topographically prominent peaks in New England.
The History of the White Mountains from the First Settlement of Upper Coos and Pequaket was written by Lucy Crawford and first published in 1846 with a revised edition published in 1883, and an expanded edition written in 1860 but not published until 1966. Lucy Howe was a first cousin of Ethan Allen Crawford, whom she married in November 1817.
Abel Crawford (1760s–1851), pioneer of tourist industry in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, drawn by Thomas Johnson. The origins of the Crawford family of the White Mountains, lie in the late-18th-century marriage of first cousins Abel Crawford and Hannah Rosebrook. [2] The date of birth of Abel, who was born in Guildhall, Vermont, is ...