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Carroll is a town in Coos County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 763 at the 2010 census.〔United States Census Bureau, (American FactFinder ), 2010 Census figures. Retrieved March 23, 2011.〕 The two largest villages are Twin Mountain and Bretton Woods. Carroll is an important access point for recreational areas in the White Mountains, including many 4,000-footers, the Zealand River area, the Presidential Range, and the Presidential Dry River Wilderness. The town is crossed by the Appalachian Trail and is home to the Mount Washington Hotel at Bretton Woods. It is also home to the Highland Center at Crawford Notch, the Appalachian Mountain Club's four-season lodge. Carroll is part of the Berlin, NH–VT Micropolitan Statistical Area. ==History== It was granted by Governor John Wentworth on February 8, 1772 to Sir Thomas Wentworth, Samuel Langdon and 81 others. Sir Thomas Wentworth resided in West Bretton, England on his estate called Bretton Hall, after which the township was named Bretton Woods.〔(Lawrence Shaw Mayo, ''John Wentworth, Governor of New Hampshire: 1767-1775;'' Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Massachusetts 1921 )〕 On the 1816 Carrigain map of New Hampshire, it appears as "Breton Woods." On 22 June 1832,〔(Article in ''Statistics and Gazetteer of new Hampshire'' (1875) )〕 the town was incorporated by the General Court as Carroll, in honor of Charles Carroll, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.〔(New Hampshire Economic and Labor Market Information Bureau Profile )〕 Although the surface is uneven and bounded by mountains, farmers found the soil "strong and deep." It has many small streams, tributaries of the Ammonoosuc River, which in the 19th-century were noted for abundant trout. By 1859, Carroll had a starch factory, and two lumber mills that produced boards, shingles, clapboards and laths.〔(Austin J. Coolidge & John B. Mansfield, ''A History and Description of New England;'' Boston, Massachusetts 1859 )〕 But it is tourism that brought fame and prosperity to the area. Hannah and Abel Crawford turned their log cabin into an inn, then built The Notch House in 1828. In 1874, the Boston, Concord & Montreal Railroad reached Fabyan Station, an important junction joined the next year by the Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad. Here stood the Fabyan House, a grand hotel built by Sylvester Marsh and his colleagues, who also built the nearby Mount Washington Cog Railway.〔(Sylvester Marsh and the Mount Washington Railway )〕 The hotel burned in 1951. The Mount Pleasant House was built in 1875, although demolished in 1939. But the grandest of all was the Mount Washington Hotel, built in 1902 and still operating. Here was held the 1944 International Monetary Conference, which resulted in the creation of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.〔 In 1874, Wing Railroad, a branch of the Montreal, extended into this town. Also Brown's lumber railroad, from Whitefield.〔 Image:The Fabyan House, White Mountains, NH.jpg|The Fabyan House c. 1908 Image:Mt. Pleasant House, Bretton Woods, White Mts., NH.jpg|The Mt. Pleasant House c. 1912 Image:Joseph Stickney Memorial Chapel, Bretton Woods, New Hampshire.jpg|Stickney Memorial Chapel c. 1910 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carroll, New Hampshire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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