Crawford Notch is the steep and narrow gorge of the Saco River in 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. This article is about the White Mountains of New Hampshire. ... State nickname: The Granite State Other U.S. States Capital Concord Largest city Manchester Governor John Lynch Official languages English Area 24,239 km² (46th)  - Land 23,249 km²  - Water 814 km² (3. ... Harts Location is an unincorporated area in Carroll County, New Hampshire. ...

From the standpoint of physical geography, the notch is at the upper or northern end of this gorge (constituting the extreme southern end of a panhandle at the southeastern corner of the town of Carroll), where the land descends both to north and south, and ascends both to east and west. However, the steepness of the south-flowing Saco's gorge (in contrast to the leisurely descent of the northward drainage into the watershed of the Crawford River and eventually the Ammonoosuc River) makes it natural to attach the name to the gorge. Carroll is a town located in Coos County, New Hampshire. ...

The gorge (like Hart's Location) is bisected by U.S. Highway 302 and the Saco, which run very similar courses. U.S. Highway 302 is a spur of U.S. Highway 2. ...

The notch was known to European settlers well enough by 1772 for the boundaries of Hart's Grant to reflect its shape. It was named for Abel Crawford, an explorer, trail-builder and hostelier in the early 19^th century. The path and eventual railroad through Crawford Notch opened a new route through the White Mountains for settlers of the Lancaster area (to the northwest) to reach Conway on the way to the trading ports on the coast. Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lancaster is a town located in Coos County, New Hampshire. ... Conway is a town located in Carroll County, New Hampshire. ...

The most mentioned historic event of the notch is the 1826 Willey's Slide, a rock-slide that killed the entire Samuel Willey family in the prepared shelter they had fled to in anticipation of just such an event, but spared completely the house that they had feared such a slide would hit.

In the Carroll portion of the notch, the Appalachian Mountain Club has built and operates the Highland Center Lodge and Conference Center, and has renovated the Victorian-era Crawford Notch train depot as a bookstore. The depot remains a stop on the scenic "Notch Train" railroad, operated seasonally from North Conway. The Appalachian Mountain Club is one of the United States oldest outdoor groups. ... North Conway is a census-designated place located in Carroll County, New Hampshire. ...

See also

• Crawford Notch State Park

External links

NH State Parks web page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_Hampshire_state_parks)

Reference

Julyan, Robert and Mary (1993). Place Names of the White Mountains (revised ed.). Hanover: University Press of New England. ISBN 0-87451-638-2.