Franconia, New Hampshire
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Franconia is a town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 1,083 at the 2020 census. Set in the White Mountains, Franconia is home to the northern half of Franconia Notch
View of Franconia, NH, from the northeast
Old Man of the Mountain on the New Hampshire quarter
Franconia Village with Sugar Hills background c. 1908
Franconia Notch, c. 1915
Old Man of the Mountain
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The Old Man of the Mountain, also called the Great Stone Face and the Profile, was a series of five granite cliff ledges on Cannon Mountain in Franconia, New Hampshire, United States, that appeared to
Franconia, New Hampshire
…is the highest peak in Franconia and in Grafton County, as well as the second-most prominent peak in the White Mountains, after Mount Washington. The Old Man of the Mountain, a profile-like cliff on the side of Cannon Mountain which inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne to write "The Great Stone Face", collapsed on May 3, 2003. In…
Old Man of the Mountain on April 26, 2003, seven days before the collapse
Old Man of the Mountain Summer, 1972 – Historical Marker: "OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN – 'The Great Stone Face" – 48' forehead to chin; 1200' above Profile Lake; 3200' above sea level; first seen by white men in 1805."
A composite photograph of the Old Man of the Mountain, made of photos taken before and after the collapse
View recreated via one of the "steel profilers" located in Profiler Plaza, in 2019