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2007 — Design of an Old Man of the Mountain memorial announced. 2010 — First phase of the state-sanctioned "Old Man of the Mountain Memorial" was unveiled. 2011 — Profiler Plaza was dedicated on June 12. 2020 — Memorial completed in September. [15] 2023 — New Hampshire establishes May 7 as Old Man of the Mountain Day. [25] [26]
The following is a list of New Hampshire state agencies—government agencies of the U.S. state of New Hampshire.Entries are listed alphabetically per their first distinguishing word (e.g. the New Hampshire Department of Agriculture, Markets, and Food is listed under "A" for Agriculture), with subordinate agencies listed under their parent agency.
Old Man of the Mountain on the New Hampshire quarter. Town status was first granted in 1764 by colonial Governor Benning Wentworth as "Franconia", [3] a name widely applied to the region by 1760 [4] due to the terrain's resemblance to the Franconian Switzerland in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany. [5]
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For generations, the visage of a stony-faced man watched over New Hampshire's Franconia Notch State Park from the cliffside. The human profile carved by Mother Nature into the unique rock ...
Covered bridge near the Flume A hiking trail through Franconia Notch The Basin. Franconia Notch State Park is a public recreation area and nature preserve that straddles eight miles (13 km) of Interstate 93 as it passes through Franconia Notch, a mountain pass between the Kinsman Range and Franconia Range in the White Mountains of northern New Hampshire, United States.
Franconia Notch (elev. 1,950 feet/590 m) is a major mountain pass through the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Dominated by Cannon Mountain to the west and Mount Lafayette to the east, it lies principally within Franconia Notch State Park and is traversed by the Franconia Notch Parkway ( Interstate 93 and U.S. Route 3 ).
Cannon Mountain (formerly Profile Mountain) is a 4,080-foot (1,240 m) peak in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. It is known for both its technical rock and ice climbing on its cliff face and skiing at Cannon Mountain Ski Area. It was also home to the Old Man of the Mountain, until that formation collapsed on May 3, 2003.