Bretton Woods, New Hampshire

Bretton Woods, New Hampshire
Mount Washington Hotel at the foot of the Presidential Range in September 2010, looking east
Mount Washington Hotel at the foot of the Presidential Range in September 2010, looking east
Bretton Woods is located in New Hampshire
Bretton Woods
Bretton Woods
Bretton Woods is located in the United States
Bretton Woods
Bretton Woods
Coordinates: 44°15′29″N 71°26′28″W / 44.25806°N 71.44111°W / 44.25806; -71.44111
CountryUnited States
StateNew Hampshire
CountyCoos
TownCarroll
Elevation
1,631 ft (497 m)
Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code
03575
Area code603
GNIS feature ID865781[1]

Bretton Woods is an area within the town of Carroll, New Hampshire, United States, whose principal points of interest are three leisure and recreation facilities. Being virtually surrounded by the White Mountain National Forest, the vista from Bretton Woods toward Mount Washington and the Presidential Range includes no significant artificial structures other than the Mount Washington Cog Railway and the Mount Washington Hotel.

Bretton Woods was the site of the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference in 1944 which has given its name to the Bretton Woods system and led to the establishment of both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in 1945. The Bretton Woods system ended in 1971.

Bretton Woods is located along U.S. Route 302, 5 miles (8 km) east of the village of Twin Mountain and 20 miles (32 km) through scenic Crawford Notch northwest of the town of Bartlett.

In 1772, King George III granted Sir Thomas Wentworth of Bretton Hall, a country house in West Bretton, West Yorkshire, and 82 others, a parcel of 24,640 acres (9,970 ha) of land to be laid out as a plantation in the White Mountains. The plantation became the town of Carroll, and the southeast corner of the land retained the name "Bretton Woods", after the estate.[2]

  1. ^ "Bretton Woods". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ^ Lawrence Shaw Mayo, John Wentworth, Governor of New Hampshire: 1767-1775; Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Massachusetts 1921