The Jackson NH Covered Bridge Jackson New Hampshire Historical Society, PO Box 8, Jackson NH 03846  
 
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  Category:  Natural Resources  
  Subject:  White Mountains  
  Code:  1435  
       
  Item Type Description  
       
  Article - 1 Report on resurveying the Presidentials  
       
  Article - 1 Article in "Mountain Ear" August 11, 1978 of report by early scientists  
       
  Magazine - 1 Yankee Magazine - February 1995. Article by Nicholas Howe on danger and deaths on Mt. Washington  
       
  Document - 2 Mt. Washington chronology to 1984  
       
  Book - 3 Collection of White Mountains souvenir books  
       
  Book - 4 Appalachia Magazine - December 1946. Article by John Olsen on construction of The Daniel Pinkham Road from Jackson (then called Adams) to Randolph (then called Durand). This road is now called The Dolly Copp Road.  
       
  Book - 4 Refer to December 1946 issue of Appalachia Magazine (above). Article states that the name"Pinkham Notch" seems to have come into use in about 1851. Before that the lands through Pinkham Notch were known as "Pinkham Woods". A still earlier name was "Eastern Pass".  
       
  Document - 5 Document titled "Eras of White Mountain Social History" with excerpts from "Chronicles of the White Mountains" by Frederick W. Kilbourne - Houghton Mifflin Co.  
       
  Book - Shelf "Indian Legends of the White Mountains" 1915 - by J.S. English. Presentation copy signed by the author. Contains an enchanting "love story" legend about Jackson. (Donated by Anne Buchi)  
       
       
  The Jackson Historical Society will furnish copies of the resource materials available at the cost of reproduction and shipping. If you are interested in the information listed above, please send us your request.  
       
    Jackson Historical Society, PO Box 8, Jackson, NH 03846
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