The winter scenery of the New Hampshire highlands has a wild Alpine beauty which merits the admiration of all lovers of Nature and calls forth the attention of increasing numbers of tourists every year.

– from Moses Foster Sweetser’s Views In The White Mountains (1879)

October 28th, 2009 by Nathaniel

Plymouth Mountain, with the name of the town upon its rugged brow, and with its southern slope extending towards Bridgewater, is the highest and most prominent elevation. In the rosy glow of morning, rejoicing in the earliest rays of the rising sun. the grim old herald of returning days each morning reviews the awakening energies of the town.

– from Ezra Scollay Stearns & Moses Thurston Runnels’ History of Plymouth, New Hampshire (1906)

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