 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 Philip's War in 1676.In the 1930s, the Civilian Conservation Corps built a picnic area on the west side of Route 78, at the bottom of the mountain, below the Gulch.