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Naming the Presidentials
July 16 6:00 PM Rebecca More
As the well-known story goes, the Presidential Range was named in July 1820 by a group of Lancaster and Guildhall men. Later known as the Weeks-Brackett party, the party hiked up Mount Washington in order to name the mountains adjacent to New Hampshire’s tallest peak for the four Presidents succeeding Washington. They were guided by Ethan Allen Crawford and accompanied by Philip Carrigain, creator of the first official New Hampshire State Map. In this talk, Naming the Presidential Range in 1820, Rebecca Weeks Sherrill More explores the accuracy of the story and shares a possible alternative account.
Rebecca More received her M.A. and Ph.D. in History from Brown University and directed its Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning from 1992 until her retirement in 2010. She was also a lecturer in history at the Rhode Island School of Design from 1995 to 2014. She continues her research on the social, economic, and cultural history of Early Modern Europe and Colonial America. She has published and lectured on New Hampshire history, including the colonial settlement of Lancaster, the Sinclair House in Bethlehem, 19th-century maps of Mount Washington, and the NH connections of MA Congressman John Wingate Weeks and the 1911 Weeks Act.
Tonight's program is sponsored by: Peter Powell Realty
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