Our next stop will include history again – but more ancient than the American History that we’ve been getting in recent weeks! We headed north from the Boston area and were soon in New Hampshire – and sighted a beautiful, purple, well kept Dodge Charger before arriving at our ancient history destination.
America’s Stonehenge is supposedly four thousand years old and contains a maze of walls, chambers and what appear to be astrological markers. A short film gives some background about discovery of the site and the various research efforts. The area has had a varied history – a colonial settler used many of the chambers for storage, quarrymen removed many stones in the 1800s, and since the 1930 various research groups have studied the site.
The self-guided tour map is full of information about the various structures and leads you through both the main site of walls and rooms and the larger area of walls and astrological markers. Information about the various research efforts in sprinkled throughout the map and best guesses about the site are included. Our visit was a great walk in the woods – so nice after a day in the city!
The owners also have a small herd of alpacas on the property – for no other reason than they were interested in the animals. Only saw one (out of six total) who was headed into the barn but I did purchase a skein of yarn as a souvenir!
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