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Title: The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: New Hampshire -- History Periodicals
Publisher: Dover, N.H. : H.H. Metcalf, Publisher
Contributing Library: University of New Hampshire Library
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d— True by the power that flows from Fount of Truth— She could no more to her own self be false Nor false again to any other one. New Hampton, N. H. LOST RIVER By J us/us Conrad Lost River is a name applied to aseries of caverns of comparativelyrecent discovery in the northwesternpart of the town of Woodstock in thebeautiful and picturesque KinsmanNotch. For more than half a centurythe Kinsman Notch gorge has beenrecognized as a deep ravine intowhich at some remote age hundredsof gigantic boulders of a fine qualityof granite had through some interiordisturbance of the earth been promis- families, and his brother, Capt. LymanJackman, now of Concord, N. H., towhom belongs the honor of callingthe worlds attention to what theyapplied the name The Lost River/surely the most appropriate name thatcould be given it. A careful examination of this hid-den wonder of natures mysteriousand pre-historic convulsion reveals.wonders second to none in our stateof its nature, and to no other natural
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About to Enter Lost River Gorge cuously hurled into a deep gulch, theresult being that the little streamknown as the West Branch of thePemigewasset was buried for a quar-ter of a mile near its source. While it was known that this gorgewas more than an ordinary freak ofnature, the importance of this greatupheaval as a natural wonder was notappreciated by the nature-loving pub-lic until within recent years, when itwas carefully explored by Royal C.Jackman of one of Woodstocks oldest wonder unless it is the Old Man ofthe Mountain. It is located sixmiles northwest of North Woodstockvillage, and twenty miles southeastfrom Woodsville, and can be reachedby automobile to within three mileson either side, and then by a moreor less rough carriage road. Thiscarriage road connects the northernend of the Pemigewasset Valley atNorth Woodstock with the Ammonoo-suc Valley at Wildwood, the construc-tion of which was begun a few years 236 The Granite Monthly ago, through the joint efforts of thetown of

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