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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 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.
The Old Man of the Mountain, also called the Great Stone Face and the Profile, [1] [2] was a series of five granite cliff ledges on Cannon Mountain in Franconia, New Hampshire, United States, that appeared to be the jagged profile of a human face when viewed from the north.
Lucy Howe was a first cousin of Ethan Allen Crawford, whom she married in November 1817. The couple had met while caring for their ailing grandfather, Eleazar Rosebrook, a pioneering hotelier at Crawford Notch in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, US. Their marriage took place months after the death of Eleazar, whose property Ethan had been ...
1790s - The Crawford family moved to New Hampshire's White Mountains from Guildhall, Vermont. [4] [5] 1819 - Ethan Allen Crawford and his father, Abel, cut the first iteration of the Crawford Path, an 8.5-mile trail from the valley where they lived (then called White Mountain Notch, now called Crawford Notch) to Mount Washington's summit. [2]
Franconia Notch (elev. 1,950 feet/590 m) is a major mountain pass through the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Dominated by Cannon Mountain to the west and Mount Lafayette to the east, it lies principally within Franconia Notch State Park and is traversed by the Franconia Notch Parkway ( Interstate 93 and U.S. Route 3 ).
Located along the Ellis River in the White Mountain National Forest, this 64-foot-tall waterfall is located at the end of a short 0.4 mile walk along the wooded trail, with a few steps to navigate ...
The Ossipee Mountains are a small mountain range in the New England state of New Hampshire, United States. The remains of an ancient volcanic ring dike, [1] they lie north of Lake Winnipesaukee, east of Squam Lake, and south of the Sandwich Range, the southernmost of the White Mountains. 2,990 ft (910 m) Mount Shaw is their highest point.