HART’S LOCATION — Mark Dindorf and wife Nancy Ritger’s backyard in this tiny township in Crawford Notch is home to a historic orchard.
Their apple trees were planted and tended by Crawford Notch pioneering innkeepers Abel and Hannah Crawford beginning in the early 1800s when they built their Crawford’s Tavern, where cider was the beverage of choice.
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