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Crawford Notch (1867), by Thomas Hill (1829–1908), looking north, collection of the New Hampshire Historical Society. A well-documented historic event within the notch was a rockslide that killed the entire Samuel Willey family in August 1826. The family fled their home during the storm to a prepared shelter but were buried by the slide and ...
Nash & Sawyer Location, New Hampshire, is a historic designation of part of Coos County, which was shown on the 1896 topographic map of the area north of Crawford Notch. It contained the areas now known as Bretton Woods and Fabyans , each annexed by the town of Carroll before 1935.
In 1776, the province established an independent state and government, the State of New Hampshire, and joined with twelve other colonies to form the United States. Europeans first settled New Hampshire in the 1620s, and the province consisted for many years of a small number of communities along the seacoast, Piscataqua River, and Great Bay.
The U.S. state of New Hampshire has, since 1958, [1] placed historical markers at locations that are deemed significant to New Hampshire history. The New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources (DHR) and the Department of Transportation (DOT) are jointly responsible for the historical marker program. [ 2 ]
The home of John P. Hale, now part of the Woodman Institute Museum, with historical marker at right City of Dover. Location: NH 108 (Central Avenue) [1] "New Hampshire lawyer, politician and noted abolitionist, Hale lived in this home for nearly 40 years, until his death.
Historic Map Works, including some relatively recent atlases; Maptech: Historical Topographic Maps. Historic USGS Maps of New England & NY, a subset of the above; Ontario Road Map Site - mostly covers only Ontario and sometimes Quebec, but some "spill over" into New York and Michigan, and he scanned the eastern half of a 1936 U.S. map
Mount Passaconaway is a 4,043 ft (1,232 m) mountain in the Sandwich Range Wilderness of the White Mountain National Forest in Grafton County, New Hampshire, near Waterville Valley. It is named after Passaconaway , a 16th-century sachem of the Pennacook tribe, whose name was also attached to a small village in Albany , where the northern ...
Mount Willey is a mountain located in Grafton County, New Hampshire. [1] The mountain is named after Samuel Willey, Jr. (1766–1826) and his family, who in 1825 moved into a house in Crawford Notch. The family was killed a year later in August 1826 during a landslide. [2]