The 1768 Country Inn is the oldest building in North Conway. It was originally built for the Eastman family just three years after the town's charter was obtained from His Majesty George the Third. Richard Eastman, Sr., was third in descent from Roger Eastman, who had emigrated from Wales in 1640. He came to Conway early in its settlement with his four sons, Richard Jr., Noah, Abiathar and Jonathan. It seems as if nearly all the descendants of early settlers in this locality are in some way connected to the Eastmans. Their families were prolific. Richard Eastman, Jr. had eighteen children; his son, Jonathan, was the first male child born in the town of Conway.
Richard, Sr., purchased of Thomas Chadbourne the mill lot on Kesaugh Brook. On this lot was the first frame house built in the town where seventeen of Richard, Jr.'s eighteen children were born. This house was built on intervale land in 1766 - 1767, but in 1785, after the big freshet, was moved to higher land where it stands to this day.
-from Ruth Homes's "Conway Through the Years and Whither".
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