Railways & Waterways: Through the White Mountains
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Bruce D. Heald Ph.D.
Bruce D. Heald, Ph.D., has written extensively on New Hampshire�s history. In this book, he has assembled a rare collection of images from the archives of the White Mountain National Forest.
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INTRODUCTION
New Hampshire is a state reclining with its head pillowed on high mountains and its feet washed in its many waterways—the majestic White Mountains.
The charm of the White Mountains is its infinite variety of scenery, inexhaustible in its resources and unlimited in its manifold combinations. Each of the villages and glens command the magnificent aspects of the many ranges. Every mile of approach opens a new series of prospects, each of which has its own peculiar attractiveness, and reveals the natural grandeur of its landscape.
The element of color in this region appears in manifold variety and brilliance, not only with the seasons but with the changing hours of the day. The different lithological formations of the mountain ranges also call forth admiration in their scenic beauty; the brilliant hues of the Presidential Range contrasting with the unbroken blackness of Sandwich Dome and the blanched crests of Whiteface and Chocorua. They all give rise to the most magnificent display of color when the early frost of autumn and the full ripening of their leaves combine to produce the matchless pageantry of gold, scarlet, and tan in which the highlands are arrayed. In respect to the lakes and mountain streams, scattered through the glens and reflecting the storm-beaten peaks above, they too bring alive the pulse of our forest via the navigable Pemigewasset, Saco, and Ammonoosuc, with its pure water within sight of their highest crests.
Reminisce for a moment when railroad was king of transportation during the late 1800s, as if we were on the Ogdensburgh Railroad traveling from the Conways through a picturesque Saco River Valley and Crawford Notch, or the Boston & Maine Railroad up the stately, pastoral Pemigewasset Valley to Franconia Notch, or maybe over the highlands along the Ammonoosuc River to Fabyan’s and the base of the Presidential; all views rendered a magnificent vista of conspicuous summits, and undaunted lakes and rivers.
There is a special gift of wonderment as we witness the harvest of 112,000 acres of designated wilderness. The forest itself encompasses nearly 800,000 acres of landscape ranging from hardwood forest to the largest alpine area east of the Rocky Mountains and south of Canada.
This beautiful National Forest was established in 1911 to provide resources for the nation while also protecting and managing the land for future generations. Here in the White Mountains we may enjoy not only its seasonal beauty, but its winter skiing, summer hiking, camping, and water activities with the entire family.
Through this rare photographic journey, I have attempted to capture some brief moments of the romance, charm, and nostalgia of the character of the mountains, rivers, and lakes so as to preserve in print the spirit and majesty of the White Mountains and its waterways by rail.
Bruce D. Heald, Ph.D.
One
THE PEMIGEWASSET VALLEY
FRANCONIA NOTCH FROM THE VALLEY OF THE PEMIGEWASSET. Franconia Notch State Park covers approximately 600 acres along both sides of the Pemigewasset River for 8 miles. Here are located waterfalls in greater numbers than in any other area of equal extent in the White Mountains. The views along the Appalachian Trail over Mt. Lincoln and Mt. Lafayette are breathtaking, especially along the knife-edge,
where sheer cliffs fall away on each side. The natural beauty of this park is magnificent and majestic beyond words.
A MAP OF FRANCONIA NOTCH. What the Saco Valley is to the White Mountains, the Pemigewasset Valley is to the Franconia Range, the long and delicious vestibule through which access is gained to the many shadowy hills at the end. The name itself breathes forth the free spirit of nature, and sounds like the long rustle of pine-boughs, or the rush of sylvan streams through dewy thickets. It is one of those ponderous words that Native Americans could make as well as modern German philosophers, and it means Crooked-Mountain-Pine-Place.
Born in Profile Lake and re-enforced by long streams from the wilderness about Thoreau Falls, this sesquipedalian stream known as the Pemigewasset descends 1,500 feet in the first 30 miles of its course, filling the lovely valley with music and coolness, and fructifying leagues of level green intervales.
THE PEMIGEWASSET HOUSE AND THE BOSTON, CONCORD & MONTREAL RAILROAD STATION, PLYMOUTH, 1877. There are numerous gate-ways
to the White Mountains, but none are more attractive then the valley of the Winding Water among the Mountain Pines,
which is the interpretation of the Native-American name for the Pemigewasset Valley. In 1850 the Boston, Concord & Montreal Railroad completed the road to Plymouth from Concord. In 1858 the BC&M leased the White Mountain Railroad, thus continuing the road from Plymouth to Littleton. In 1869 the construction of an extension of the White Mountain Railroad beyond Littleton was undertaken, and in 1872 the track from Wing Road toward the base of Mt. Washington was begun.
THE PLYMOUTH RAILROAD STATION, 1930s. At the foot, or the opening from the south, of the Pemigewasset Valley stands the town of Plymouth, NH, containing the old courthouse in which Daniel Webster made his first plea. But perhaps the town itself was as well known to travelers because of its great hotels, at once a hostelry and