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1805
Rock outcropping in Franconia Notch first noticed by road workers.

    

1830
Theodore Dwight, The Northern Traveller (guidbook) mentions "Old Man of the Mountains."

   
    
   

1848
William Oakes, Scenery of the White Mountains

    

1850
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Great Stone Face"

   
    
   

1856
Benjamin Willey, Incidents in White Mountain History

    

1930
Old Man of the Mountain promoted as a tourist attraction.

   
    
   

2003
Old Man of the Mountains collapses


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