Historical Markers in Rumney, New Hampshire

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Historical Markers in Rumney, New Hampshire

1 ► New Hampshire, Grafton County, Rumney — 55 — Baker River —

On Mount Moosilauke Highway (New Hampshire Route 25) 1 mile west of Halls Brook Road, on the right when traveling west.

Baker River Known to Indians as Asquamchumauke, the nearby river was renamed for Lt. Thomas Baker (1682-1753) whose company of 34 scouts from North- ampton, Mass. passed down this valley in 1712. A few miles south his men destroyed a . . . — — Map (db m97232) HM

2 ► New Hampshire, Grafton County, Rumney — Geological History of the Polar Caves —

Near Mount Moosilauke Highway (New Hampshire Route 25).

Nearly five billion years ago a great ball of cosmic gasses began to cool and condense forming our solar system. This cooling process continued for 3½ billion years solidifying our planet, Earth, and eventually forming the first continental . . . — — Map (db m97246) HM

3 ► New Hampshire, Grafton County, Rumney — Park History —

Near Mount Moosilauke Highway (New Hampshire Route 25).

Polar Caves Park was discovered by a group of local teenagers playing in the boulders beneath Mt. Haycock in the year 1900. Twenty-two years later Edwin Collishaw, seeing the potential, opened the caves to the public. He chose the name Polar Caves . . . — — Map (db m97245) HM

4 ► New Hampshire, Grafton County, Rumney — The Granite State —

Near Mount Moosilaukee Highway (New Hampshire Route 25).

Granite is an Igneous rock and is known for being extremely durable and hard. In the early 1900's this site was used to harvet granite for the main lodge's foundation and entrance signs for the Polar Caves. You can see examples of where the granite . . . — — Map (db m97247) HM

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