MOUNT WASHINGTON — It was an unusually calm summer day near the top of the Northeast’s highest peak on July 31, when a group of state and federal stakeholders joined Appalachian Mountain Club officials in front of the circa 1853 Tip-Top House to celebrate the recreation organization’s 150th anniversary.
The AMC was founded in Boston on Jan. 8, 1876, by MIT Professor Edward Pickering and 33 other hiking enthusiasts to conserve the White Mountains of New Hampshire and the broader Northeast.
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