. Here and there in New England and Canada . present site at the Three Elms, not far from the KearsargeHouse, where it has been used as a boarding-house and as a military this pioneer Joseph descended the Thompsons of the present day, so well known in tlie valley. In 1S40, S. W. Thompson converted his fathersfarm-house into a country-tavern, and established a line of stages, runningfrom Portland through North Conway and the Notch. In 1S61, he built thepresent south wing of the Kearsarge House, and eleven years later the mainedifice came into being, simultaneous with the arrival of
. Here and there in New England and Canada . present site at the Three Elms, not far from the KearsargeHouse, where it has been used as a boarding-house and as a military this pioneer Joseph descended the Thompsons of the present day, so well known in tlie valley. In 1S40, S. W. Thompson converted his fathersfarm-house into a country-tavern, and established a line of stages, runningfrom Portland through North Conway and the Notch. In 1S61, he built thepresent south wing of the Kearsarge House, and eleven years later the mainedifice came into being, simultaneous with the arrival of the Eastern Rail-road at the village. Thompson made a contract with a dozen or moreartists, half a century ago, by which he boarded them for $ a week,each, and sent their noonday meals out to their sketching-grounds, whereverthey might be. On their part, they agreed to date all their mountainsketches from North Conway; and the result was a most effectual advertis-ing of the hamlet, aU over the Republic, so that, after six years of this. friendly league, the place received continually increasing crowds of summer-guests. The Washington House, near the Maine-Central station, was built aboutthe time of the War of 1812, by Daniel Eastman, whose funeral occurred inthe village church a year or two ago. For decades, this was a favorite stop-ping-place for Vermont traders and farmers, on their way between Portlandand the Green-Mountain State, with their heavily-laden wagon-trains. After-wards, it became a resort for summer-boarders, and enjoyed a goodly patron-age up to within a few years, when the erection of new and more modernhotels caused it to be abandoned and left to fall into ruin. The magnate of the valley, in those old days, was Dr. Alexander Ram-say, a small and deformed individual from Edinburgh, enjoying an annuity of some three thousand dollars a year from his Scottish forbears, and belovedby all the rustics, not less for his quaint Caledonian wit and his great medi-cal
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