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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G3Z_franconia-notch-state-park_Lincoln-NH.html
This 6,500 acre park is often called the Flagship of the New Hampshire state park system.
Called a "mountainous defile" by early settlers and travelers, this valley today is one of America's great parks. Some two million people from all over the w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G3Y_a-bit-of-history_Lincoln-NH.html
The land you see as you stand here all lies within the township of Lincoln, granted on January 31, 1764 to James Avery and others and named after Henry Clinton, ninth Earl of Lincoln. The original grant contained 32,456 acres. Settlers did not beg…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G3X_the-flume_Lincoln-NH.html
This narrow gorge 700 feet in length with walls of granite 60 to 70 feet high was formed thousands of years ago when magma, filled an east-west fracture in the side of Mt. Liberty. Erosion resulting from water flowing over this lava dike through t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G3W_franconia-range_Lincoln-NH.html
The mountains you are looking at are part of the Franconia Range and like the rest of the White Mountains are among the oldest in the world. They date back to a period in geological time more than 400 million years ago when this area was covered b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1F09_betty-and-barney-hill-incident_Lincoln-NH.html
On the night of September 19-20, 1961, Portsmouth, NH couple Betty and Barney Hill experienced a close encounter with an unidentified flying object and two hours of "lost" time while driving south on Rte 3 near Lincoln. They filed an official Air …