White Mountain History - Table of Contents

About Us:
What is WhiteMountainHistory.org all about? And who are we?

Donate:
A simple and secure way to support our organization

Historical Societies:
A work in progress that will identify major collections held by
Historical Societies in the White Mountains, along with dozens of
photos selected by each. Several are now functional.

Resources and Links:
Additional places for more information

Using this site:
Navigation and Photo-Albums

Abandoned Towns:

Carrigain: With a photo album

Hastings, Maine: With photo album

Johnson and Little Canada: With a photo album

Livermore: With an Audio Slide Show and
photo album

Zealand: With a photo album

Album of Watercolors, c.1862
Courtesy Dartmouth College Library

Art of Homesteading:
The exhibit at the Remick Museum

Bits and Pieces
Interesting, little known bits of White Mountain History

Bretton Woods, 1884
Describes and pictures the buildings that existed late in the 19th century

Cog Railway

Crawford Notch:
With a photo album and Suggested Reading List

Dartmouth College
Might Have Been in Landaff

Christian Science Church at Fabyans

Early Movies on Mt. Washington
Including 1904 Auto Race up the Mountain and 1905 First Glidden Tour

Early Homes, Barns and Mills
Volume I Lisbon, Lyman, Landaff and Sugar Hill.
Volume II Bath, West Bath, and more of Lyman
(These are remarkable albums.)

Early Turnpikes:
Tenth New Hampshire Turnpike with much new information

Jefferson Turnpike It still exists and you can drive on it

Winnipissiogee Turnpike(but it was never built)

Fabyan Guard Cabin

Fire Lookout Towers
With over 40 photos

Fire on the Summit of Mt. Washington, 1908
With photos

Franconia Iron Works:
One of most informative pages with a 15-minute video discussing
the iron furnace and production and a 22-minute video about the iron mines. Also a photo album including products of the
Franconia Iron Works.

Historical Markers.
There are over 40 State of New Hampshire Historical Markers within the White Mountains. With Map
Kearsarge Peg Mill:
This peg mill, in Bartlett, is the last operating peg mill in North America. We have a 20-minute video of the mill in operation, narrated by its present owner, and a photo album

Logging Railroads:
One of the most popular sections of this website and all with photo albums.

Composite Map
Showing all the Logging Railroads

What Did It Cost to Build a Logging railroad?

Bartlett and Albany RR
Beebe River RR

Conway Lumber Co

East Branch RR

East Branch and Lincoln RR
and a photo album of Lincoln

Gale River Logging Railroad
Gordon Pond RR
Rocky Branch RR

Saco Valley RR

Sawyer River RR

Woodstock and Thornton Gore RR
Woodstock Lumber Co and photo album of
Woodstock

Maps of the White Mountains:
Cartography in the White Mountains
by Adam Jared Apt
Twenty-Five Early Maps with Descriptions

Thirty More Scarce Maps

1805 Town Survey Maps created for the Carrigian Map

             All of Franklin Leavitt's Maps
  Three Manuscript maps by Franklin Leavitt
   White Mountain National Forest Maps
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps

Paleoindians in the White Mountains
Introduction by Peter Crane and articles by Dick Boisvert and others

People and Personalities:

Samuel Bemis and Notchland

Photographs by J.W. Black 1854

Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad:
History and photo album of construction of the railroad

Profile & Franconia Notch Railroad

Redstone Granite Quarries:
Includes two photo albums; one with vintage photos and the other showing the site as it is today.

Stickney Chapel and Stickney Mausoleum. Includes the Bretton Woods Boys Choir. Over 50 photos

Summit Hotels and Other Structures

Tourism and Hotels:

Crawford House With 3 photo albums. One
album illustrates the hotel and surroundings,one includes photos taken at the scene of the fire and another with photos taken at the auction of the contents.

Early Cabins and Tourist Camps An entertaining slide show
Fabyan House With photo album

Glen House With photo album

Metallak Hotel A Grand Hotel to be but it blew down before it was completed.

Mt. Pleasant Hotel With photo album (Much new
information about this hotel)

Mt. Washington Hotel With photo album

Profile House With Photo Album

Transportation
Stage Coach Travel

Water Powered Print Shop
at the Mt. Washington Hotel. It's unique.

Waumbek Junction

Weeks Act:
History, Bibliography and several contemporary source documents

White Mountain Music
Listen to music written over 100 years specifically for White
Mountain visitors