Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.
Five granite ledges stacked on a cliff in Franconia Notch lined up, from exactly one angle, into the profile of a man forty feet tall. Daniel Webster wrote about it, New Hampshire put it on the state quarter and every road sign, and it held on with cables and epoxy for decades. On 3 May 2003 it let go and fell. The state grieved it properly. At the Profile Plaza on the lakeshore there are now steel rods you sight along to raise the face back onto the empty cliff, which is a strange and moving thing to do in person.
Franconia Notch State Park, Cannon Mountain (New Hampshire). Source: A real landmark that really collapsed in 2003; the viewing plaza restores it. The Club 49 map pins this legend at its documented country, beside the real mines, active claims, land status and modeled honey holes of the same ground. Open the free map and go stand in the story.
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