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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.
2007 — Design of an Old Man of the Mountain memorial announced. 2010 — First phase of the state-sanctioned "Old Man of the Mountain Memorial" was unveiled. 2011 — Profiler Plaza was dedicated on June 12. 2020 — Memorial completed in September. [15] 2023 — New Hampshire establishes May 7 as Old Man of the Mountain Day. [25] [26]
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 ...
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.
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]
Other major highways in the region include U.S. Highway 302 (Woodsville to Conway), New Hampshire State Route 16 (from Gorham to Conway), State Route 10 (from Littleton to Piermont), and U.S. Route 2 from Lancaster to Shelburne. U.S. Route 3 parallels I-93, except north of Franconia Notch, where it branches off to Twin Mountain and Whitefield.
Cenkl, Pavel (2009), This Vast Book of Nature: Writing the Landscape of New Hampshire's White Mountains, 1784-1911, University of Iowa Press, ISBN 978-1-58729-714-4; Johnson, Christopher (2006), This Grand & Magnificent Place: The Wilderness Heritage of the White Mountains, UPNE, ISBN 978-1-58465-461-2
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 ...