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The Crawford Path In The News: White Mountain History And The Communications Revolutions, Susan Schibanoff
The Crawford Path In The News: White Mountain History And The Communications Revolutions, Susan Schibanoff
Appalachia
By 1820, at least 50 newspapers were being published in New Hampshire, and that number doubled within a few decades. The communications revolution and the rapid expansion of newspapers in the White Mountains of New Hampshire has been an underused resource for historians. The 21st-century digital revolution has made those paper accessible, and they tell the story of the oldest continually maintained footpath in America, the Crawford Path.