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Nancy's Brook is
located south of Crawford Notch State Park in the White Mountains National
Forest. Nancy Pond Trail is located on NH Route 302. The area is
comprised of a rugged virgin spruce-fir forest, and exploring the trails
should be left to serious or professional hikers. The following is an
old account of how the brook was given its name:
"Another spot of
interest in the Notch is Nancy's Brook. It was at the point where this
stream comes foaming from Mount Nancy into the great ravine that the girl
whose name is given to it was found frozen to death in a shroud of snow in
the fall of 1788.
She had set out
alone from Jefferson in search of a young farmer who was to have married
her, and walked thirty miles through trackless snow between sunset and dawn.
Then her strength gave out and she sank beside the road never to rise again.
Her recreant lover
went mad with remorse when he learned the manner of her death and did not
long survive her, and men who have traversed the savage passes of the Notch
on chill nights in October have fancied that they heard, above the clash of
the stream and whispering of the woods, long, shuddering groans mingled with
despairing cries and gibbering laughter."
NH Land & Forest
Nancy Brook Web
Site:
www.dred.state.nh.us/...
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