Chronicles of the White Mountains . its last openings to the public havingbeen in 1872 and 1876. The early inn at Upper Bartlett was kept for yearsby Judge Obed Hall, who had been a member ofCongress. Grenville Mellen tells of stopping therein 1819 and characterizes his host as the wonderand curiosity of his region, noting his picturesquecharacter and rugged, honest hospitality and hisabilities as a talker and story-teller. The Honorable John Pendexter, who built thehotel, afterwards enlarged and improved and nowknown as the Pendexter Mansion, in Intervale,came to the wilderness from Portsmout
Chronicles of the White Mountains . its last openings to the public havingbeen in 1872 and 1876. The early inn at Upper Bartlett was kept for yearsby Judge Obed Hall, who had been a member ofCongress. Grenville Mellen tells of stopping therein 1819 and characterizes his host as the wonderand curiosity of his region, noting his picturesquecharacter and rugged, honest hospitality and hisabilities as a talker and story-teller. The Honorable John Pendexter, who built thehotel, afterwards enlarged and improved and nowknown as the Pendexter Mansion, in Intervale,came to the wilderness from Portsmouth ^ in thewinter of 1772 or 1773, living at first in a log cabinand later in a frame house on the lowland. Anotherearly house in this locality was Meserves East In 1900. A cottage, still standing at the railroad station, wasbuilt of the sound timber. The eighty miles were made by the pioneer on foot, his wife,Martha, riding on an old horse, with a feather bed for a saddle, andhe dragging the household furniture on a hand sled. 158. am H< woa oi o PSu 2;ao PJo wK H THE EARLY HOTELS Branch House at Lower Bartlett, near the locationof the Pitman Hall of to-day. The great hotel locality of this region was, how-ever, the town of Conway. Here, as the chief stop-ping-place at the east entrance to the Mountains, anumber of taverns or inns were early 1812, the Washington House, later the CliffHouse, threw open its doors for the entertainment ofstrangers in North Conway, destined to become theprincipal tourist center of the town and the leadingsummer resort of the eastern side of the Eastman was its builder and proprietor. By1825, when summer visitors began to come, thetaverns in the town, besides Eastmans were, accord-ing to Mrs. Mason, Thomas Abbotts PequawketHouse at Conway (formerly known as ConwayComer); Benjamin Osgoods house at Black Cat, inthe lower end of the town; the McMillan Houseat North Conway, established by Colonel AndrewMcMillan, a nati
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