Tag: Glencliff
Glencliff is a village within the White Mountain National Forest in the town of Warren in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States.
The village consists of fewer than one hundred residents and some forty man-made structures, including the Willing Workers Hall, the Glencliff Community Chapel, the old firefighter’s garage, the Glencliff Improvement Cooperative (community water system), the Post Office (located in one of the dwellings) and the Glencliff Home for the Elderly (located higher up the mountain).
Located in the White Mountains, the village was originally part of the town of Coventry (now Benton), but the town of Warren successfully petitioned the state legislature to make the village part of Warren. The village was known as Warren Summit until an unfortunate incident in the early 1900s, when two trains crashed in a head-on collision, due to confusion over town names.
The Glencliff Home for the Elderly was formerly the Glencliff Sanatorium, which opened in the summer of…
