America's Stonehenge: Inside the Rocky History of New Hampshire's Mystery Hill

Roadside attraction or archaeological proof of ancient civilizations on U.S. soil?

By Stephen C. George
Feb 3, 2021 10:19 PM
Sun setting on the winter solstice stone at America's Stonehenge - shutterstock
The sun setting on winter solstice at America's Stonehenge. (Credit: Marie N. Sapienza/Shutterstock)

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New Hampshire isn't called the Granite State for nothing. One thing my birthplace has in abundance is rocks. In its long history, New Hampshire has been the settling place of many peculiar and inert stony masses: the much-missed Old Man of the Mountain, weather-ravaged Mount Washington, and my big brother Doug, to name a few. 

I love them all, but one conglomeration of rocks has captured my imagination — and a certain level of archaeological notoriety — for decades. I refer, of course, to the inscrutable landscape of stone and earth that locals still call Mystery Hill. You may know it as America's Stonehenge.

Journey Into Mystery

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