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The History Of Conway, New Hampshire
 Conway joins the White Mountain National Forest,
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The region was once home to the Pequawket Indians, an Algonquian Abenaki tribe which summered here and spent winters in Quebec. In 1642, explorer Darby Field of Exeter canoed up the Saco River and reported seeing Pigwacket, an Indian community stretching from present-day Conway to Fryeburg, ME. 
                   Horses In The Field, North Conway, NH / Frank Curtis

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Europeans settled here in 1764 as the Pequawket population diminished.
   
In 1765, Colonial Gov. Benning Wentworth hired 65 men to establish the town of Conway, named for Henry Seymour Conway, commander in chief of the British Army. The first roads were built in 1766. Construction of the first meeting house began but was never completed and could only be used in the summer months. Eventually, the partially finished structure was moved to Center Conway. In 1775, the town raised money to build two schoolhouses, one of which was located in North Conway.
   
By the mid-1800s, artists had discovered the romantic beauty of the White Mountains, and Artist Falls Brook became a much sought-out location for landscape paintings. King Edward VII would buy 12 White Mountain paintings for Windsor Castle.
 
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