New Hampshire
Henry Ward Beecher sermon site latest N.H. historical marker
New Hampshire’s newest historic marker commemorates clergyman Henry Ward Beecher’s open-air sermon web site from the 1870s close to a glacial boulder within the White Mountains space.
Beecher, an abolitionist, proponent of ladies’s suffrage, and brother to creator Harriet Beecher Stowe, got here to the world to flee seasonal allergic reactions, in response to the marker put in close to the intersection of Routes 3 and 302 in part of Carroll often called Twin Mountain.
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“Whereas a visitor on the Twin Mountain Home, situated close to this web site, Beecher carried out sermons that generally drew crowds over 1,000,” the marker stated.
The marker was unveiled earlier this month as a part of Carroll’s 250th anniversary celebration.
It’s the 274th marker in New Hampshire’s Historic Freeway Marker program.