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词条 Crawford Notch
释义

  1. History

  2. Points of interest

  3. See also

  4. Notes

  5. External links

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| name = Crawford Notch
| photo = A View of the Mountain Pass Called the Notch of the White Mountans (Crawford Notch)-1839-Thomas Cole.jpg
| photo_caption = The Notch of the White Mountains (1839),
by Thomas Cole (1801–1848), looking south past Saco Lake
| elevation_ft = 1,900
| traversed = U.S. Route 302
| location = Carroll / Coos counties, New Hampshire, U.S.
| range = White Mountains
| coordinates = {{coord|44|13|7|N|71|24|42|W |type:pass_region:US-NH |display=inline,title}}
| topo = USGS Crawford Notch, Stairs Mountain, Bartlett
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Crawford Notch is a major pass through the White Mountains of New Hampshire, located almost entirely within the town of Hart's Location. Roughly half of that town is contained in Crawford Notch State Park. The high point of the notch, at approximately {{convert|1900|ft}} above sea level, is at the southern end of the town of Carroll, near the Crawford Depot train station and Saco Lake, the source of the Saco River, which flows southward through the steep-sided notch. North of the high point of the notch, Crawford Brook flows more gently northwest to the Ammonoosuc River, a tributary of the Connecticut River.

The notch is traversed by U.S. Route 302, which closely follows the Saco River southeast to North Conway and less closely follows the Ammonoosuc River northwest to Littleton.

History

Originally called White Mountain Notch, it became known to European settlers when found by Timothy Nash in 1771.[1] The 1772 boundaries of Hart's Grant reflected its shape.{{cn|date=June 2018}} It was named for the Crawford family, who were trail-builders and hostelers there in the 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.[4]{{qn|date=June 2018}}

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 died in a mass of stone and rubble. Their home was untouched. Mount Willey, on the west side of the notch, is named in their memory.[5] The event in part inspired a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne titled The Ambitious Guest.[5] Further down the notch, Nancy Brook and Mount Nancy are named for an earlier tragedy.[6]

In the Carroll portion of the notch, the Appalachian Mountain Club has built and operates the Highland Center Lodge and Conference Center (on the site of the Crawford House Hotel, a 19th-century grand hotel which burned in 1972), and has renovated the Queen Anne style Victorian-era Crawford Notch Maine Central train depot as a bookstore. The depot remains a stop on the scenic "Notch Train" of the Conway Scenic Railroad, operated seasonally from North Conway.

Points of interest

  • Grave of Samuel Bemis, first photographer of the American landscape
  • Mount Willard, open summit near center of notch with views of the notch's structure

See also

  • Crawford Notch State Park
  • List of mountain passes in New Hampshire
  • Nash & Sawyer Location, New Hampshire
  • NH Historical Marker #30, "The Crawford Family"

Notes

1. ^{{cite book |last1=Julyan |first1=Robert Hixson |last2=Julyan |first2=Mary |title=Place Names of the White Mountains |year=1993 |publisher=University Press of New England |location=Hanover, NH |isbn=978-0-87451-638-8 |pages=34-36 |edition=Revised |url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=KkKBhQVyid8C&pg=PA34}}
2. ^{{cite book |title=This Grand & Magnificent Place: The Wilderness Heritage of the White Mountains |first=Christopher |last=Johnson |publisher=UPNE |year=2006 |isbn=978-1-58465-461-2 |pages=49-51 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uzBIKlqDu74C&pg=PA49}}
3. ^* {{cite book |title=This Vast Book of Nature: Writing the Landscape of New Hampshire's White Mountains, 1784–1911 |first=Pavel |last=Cenkl |publisher=University of Iowa Press |year=2009 |isbn=978-1-58729-714-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FuYKSB_iv3gC&pg=PA25 |page=25}}
4. ^Johnson, Ron Maine Central Railroad Mountain Division p.9
5. ^{{cite journal |last=Sears|first=John F.|title=Hawthorne’s "The Ambitious Guest" and the Significance of the Willey Disaster|journal=American Literature |volume=54|issue=3 |date=October 1982|pages=354–367 |jstor = 2925848 |doi=10.2307/2925848|subscription=yes}}
6. ^{{cite book |title=This Grand & Magnificent Place: The Wilderness Heritage of the White Mountains |first=Christopher |last=Johnson |publisher=UPNE |year=2006 |isbn=978-1-58465-461-2 |pages=55-56 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uzBIKlqDu74C&pg=PA55}}

External links

  • NH State Parks web page
  • 19th century landscape paintings of Crawford Notch
  • Highland Center Lodge at Crawford Notch
{{Saco River}}

6 : Landforms of Carroll County, New Hampshire|Landforms of Coos County, New Hampshire|Notches of New Hampshire|Appalachian Mountain Club|Carroll, New Hampshire|Hudson River School sites

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