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In this context, monadnock is used to describe a mountain that rises from an area of relatively flat and/or lower terrain. For instance, Mount Monadnock rises 610 metres (2,000 ft) above its surrounding terrain and stands, at 965 m (3,165 ft), nearly 300 m (1,000 ft) higher than any mountain peak within 48 km (30 mi). [8]
The Wapack Range, sometimes referred to as the Pack Monadnock Range, is a 20-mile-long (32 km) range of mountains in south-central New Hampshire and adjacent Massachusetts, in the northeastern United States. The range is considered very scenic and rugged with many bare summits and ledges ranging from 1,800 to 2,290 feet (550 to 700 m).
Monadnock Lifetime Products, Inc. is a weapons manufacturer providing equipment to law enforcement and private security companies since 1958. Monadnock produce several models of police baton . The company is a subsidiary under Safariland, LLC
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Monadnock or "inselberg", a generic term for isolated mountain; Names of summits. Mount Monadnock, a well-known summit in southwestern New Hampshire, United States, located in the town of Jaffrey; Monadnock Mountain (Vermont), a summit in Lemington, Vermont, United States; Pack Monadnock, a mountain in the Wapack Range of southern New Hampshire
The Monadnock was commissioned by Boston real estate developers Peter and Shepherd Brooks in the building boom following the Depression of 1873–79. [5] The Brooks family, which had amassed a fortune in the shipping insurance business and had been investing in Chicago real estate since 1863, had retained Chicago property manager Owen F. Aldis to manage the construction of the seven-story ...
Mount Monadnock, the southern terminus of the MSG, is the most prominent peak of southeast New England. At 3,165 feet (965 m) high, it is 1,000 feet (300 m) higher than any mountain peak within 30 miles (48 km) and rises 2,000 feet (610 m) above the surrounding landscape.
Monadnock (ACM-14) was originally built as an M1 mine planter [1] for the U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps, Mine Planter Service as USAMP Major Samuel Ringgold (MP 11) [2] by the Marietta Manufacturing Co., Point Pleasant, WV and delivered to the Army December 1942. [3]