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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2034_why-is-it-called-a-notch_Franconia-NH.html
When North America was first settled, pioneers built their homes of logs. To aid in falling the timber, they made U or V-shaped cuts at the tree's base. Similar cuts were made in the logs to hold their cabins together. They called these cuts NOTCH…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2033_old-man-of-the-mountain_Lincoln-NH.html
Old Man of the Mountain
"The Great Stone Face"
48 ft. from forehead to chin
1200 ft. above Profile Lake
3200 ft. above sea level
First seen by white men in 1805
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2032_the-old-man-of-the-mountain_Franconia-NH.html
The rock profile you see 1200 feet above this spot had its beginning some 25,000 years ago during the great ice age. As the glacier moved southward the cliff began to take the shape you see today. As the ice age came to a close and the glacier ret…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2030_a-delicate-balance_Franconia-NH.html
Geologists speculate that the Old Man of the Mountain, formed by a retreating glacier during the last ice age, looked out over Profile Lake for more than 12,000 years. On May 3, 2003, the delicate balance that had held the "Great Stone Face&q…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM202Y_franconia-notch_Franconia-NH.html
State of New Hampshire
Franconia Notch
Forest Reservation and Memorial Park
Acquired with funds appropriated by the legislature of 1925 and the donations of Fifteen thousand contributors secured through The Society for Protection of New Hampsh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2022_loon-mountain_Lincoln-NH.html
Loon Mountain
Section of logging railroad
1893-1947
A billion feet of logs were hauled over this track.
Lincoln, N.H.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2021_railroads-tame-the-white-mountains_Lincoln-NH.html
Rivers as roads for lumber
In New England, limber and pulp mills traditionally got their wood from logs harvested in the winter and floated downstream during spring floods.
Enterprising lumber baron
J.E. Henry built a railroad that made it po…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2019_army-air-crew_Woodstock-NH.html
Honoring the World War II
U.S. Army air crew who
crashed in a B-18 bomber
on Mt. Waternomee in
Woodstock, N.H., January 14, 1942.
Dedicated July 4, 1992
Lt. Anthony Benvenuto
Lt. Woodrow Kantner
Lt. Fletcher Craig
PFC Richard Chubb
PFC R…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2017_vietnam-veterans-a-war-memorial_Woodstock-NH.html
1983 1965 - 1975
Honoring the Vietnam Veterans of Woodstock
North Woodstock, N.H.
A list of 61 servicemen and women; one Killed In Action, one Missing In Action
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2016_missing-in-action-a-war-memorial_Woodstock-NH.html
Dedicated to
SFC. Alden B. Willey
5th Special Forces, Airborne Div.
SP4 Quinten E. Mulleavey
173rd Airborne Div.
Missing In Action
who made the supreme sacrifice
and to all those from Woodstock
who served in Vietnam
July 4, 1975