By Arthur F. March Jr.
tourism, Franconia and Sugar Hill are certain parts with distinctive personalities that experience built through the years. the invention of wealthy deposits of iron ore in Sugar Hill within the past due 1700s and the institution of iron works in Franconia introduced the 2 parts jointly in a operating partnership. the arriving of the railroads introduced tourism into either groups, with Franconia delivering the surroundings with its mountains and far-famed Franconia Notch, and Sugar Hill rounding out the surroundings with a beneficiant supplying of grand summer season motels. The sharing of the summer season vacationer used to be greatly
broadened by means of the improvement of snowboarding within the early a part of the current century. back, Franconia supplied the most important terrain and Sugar Hill supplied some of the visitor lodgings, together with the 1st formal ski institution on the prestigious Peckett�s resort. With all of its attributes, the realm has attracted a couple of notables, together with celeb Bette Davis.
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