Nashua Signs — page 8
9 November 2021
Preservation Company with BaileyDonovan created a group of three interpretive signs for Mount
Washington:
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Mount Wi STTINEARON (CARAVWECONE OTH 399)
The Weather
The top of Mount Washington is
renowned forits
extreme on
a clear day, visors can see five states
bad
. . the: recorded 23 mile-per
“The Loftiest of all Hotels” hour winds, aworld record at the time.
x “The work of geting tothe top ofthe The
Feat Shpegh Pee Rng endian th blithe hha Ni greiner rel epany
to male ita destination worthy of recorded 10 days per year, and snow. x Pas
‘out Washington is the highest mountain in the effet. 2852 the Summit House was nymonth averages ~~ Wften) fk,
the northeastom United States. Part of the Ap reee hiysenlyee ten fe
Presidential Range of the it adfeed! ‘The smaller Conway, NH is 66 feet. Observatories sas
was named for George Washington It was first scaled fe eee nee flinty oe
by Europeans in 1642 Ethan Allen Crawford and his, 12908 fre and it's the only evidence ofthis, the mid-agth century. Today the Mount os - .
father, Abel. blazed the frst trail up the mountain in 1819: fanpage ieee ped Washinglon Observatory coniruesine “omfused
today it is the oldest in stables, offices and Building constructed in 1479,
the United States in 1863, the railroad
Gorham, NH, ushering in the golden age of Write
‘Mountain tourism. Just two years later 3,400 visitors
climbed Mount Washington, and today, appraximataty
50.000 people hike the mountain each year.
as well
