History
Mount Grace is named after Grace (Sarah) Rowlandson, the daughter of Mary Rowlandson, a puritan colonist of Massachusetts. Grace died after she and her mother were captured by Native Americans of the Narragansett Tribe during King Phillip's War in 1676. She was reportedly buried at the foot of the mountain.
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