. Here and there in New England and Canada . the explorermay gain an interesting and extensive prospect. The Fabyan House stands in the great domain known as Nash and Saw-yers Grant, in memory of two old border-hunters who discovered the Craw-ford Notch, and were rewarded by Gov. Wentworth with a grant of overtwo thousand acres of land. This occurred before the Revolutionary War,and the cession of territory was made in the name of King George III. Inthe Fabyan vicinity stood a singular alluvial mound three hundred feet long,which the indigenous Indians revered as the Giants Grave. In 1792, Cap
. Here and there in New England and Canada . the explorermay gain an interesting and extensive prospect. The Fabyan House stands in the great domain known as Nash and Saw-yers Grant, in memory of two old border-hunters who discovered the Craw-ford Notch, and were rewarded by Gov. Wentworth with a grant of overtwo thousand acres of land. This occurred before the Revolutionary War,and the cession of territory was made in the name of King George III. Inthe Fabyan vicinity stood a singular alluvial mound three hundred feet long,which the indigenous Indians revered as the Giants Grave. In 1792, Rosebrook came down from Vermont and settled here; and in 1803his grandson, Ethan Allen Crawford, the giant of the hills, opened a tav-ern near the site of the present Fabyan. This house was burned in successor passed into the possession of Mr. Fabyan, a citizen of Portland,in 1837, and was burned in 1853. The present hotel dates from 1872-73,and its landlord until 1878 was John Lindsey, one of the old stage-drivers of 51. LOWER FALLS OF AMMONOOSUC, NEAR FABVAN S. 52 these mountain-roads. The graves of Capt. Rosebrook and Ethan AllenCrawford are marked by monuments, in the little cemeter}- not far fromthe hotel. About half a mile from the Fabyan stands the Mount-Pleasant House,built in 1876. The view includes the entire mass of Mount Washington,from base to summit, seen across the broad Ammonoosuc plain; and thecurves of the mountain-railway are visible, and the little train crawling upthe mighty peak. A mile or so below the Fabvan is the ancient White-Mountain House,Ijuilt in the long ago of 1845, ^y °^ °^ ^^^ younger Rosebrooks, and stillkept open as a summer-hotel. Here the so-called Cherry-Mountain roadturns away to the northward from the Ammonoosuc Valley, and crosses thehigh slopes of Cherr} Mountain to Jefferson Hill, in seventeen miles. Halfa mile or so below the hotel are the ruins of the once famous Lower Am-monoosuc Falls. Five miles below Fabyan
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