{"id":21921,"date":"2017-05-03T15:31:51","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T19:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=21921"},"modified":"2017-05-03T15:38:38","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T19:38:38","slug":"n-h-s-old-man-of-the-mountain-fell-14-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/n-h-s-old-man-of-the-mountain-fell-14-years-ago-today.html","title":{"rendered":"N.H.\u2019s \u2018Old Man of the Mountain\u2019 Fell 14 Years Ago Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cOld Man of the Mountain,\u201d a granite rock formation in New Hampshire\u2019s White Mountains, looked like the rugged profile of a man\u2019s face. The 40-foot-high figure had been emblematic of New Hampshire for over 300 years.<\/p>\n<p>But on 3 May 2003 the \u201cOld Man of the Mountain\u201d collapsed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_21927\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21927\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/photo-0503-2017-old-man-of-the-mountain.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21927\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/photo-0503-2017-old-man-of-the-mountain.png\" alt=\"Photo: the \u201cOld Man of the Mountain\u201d on 26 April 2003, seven days before the collapse\" width=\"660\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/photo-0503-2017-old-man-of-the-mountain.png 660w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/photo-0503-2017-old-man-of-the-mountain-300x238.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21927\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: the \u201cOld Man of the Mountain\u201d on 26 April 2003, seven days before the collapse. A late spring snow fell the night before. Credit: Jeffrey Joseph; Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This 1988 newspaper article quoted Daniel Webster\u2019s comment about the iconic New Hampshire landmark:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMen hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades. Shoemakers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch; even the dentist hangs out a gold tooth. But, up in the mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there He makes man.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_21931\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21931\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/springfield-union-newspaper-0612-1988-old-man-of-the-mountain.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21931\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/springfield-union-newspaper-0612-1988-old-man-of-the-mountain.png\" alt=\"An article about New Hampshire's &quot;Old Man of the Mountain,&quot; Springfield Union newspaper article 12 June 1988\" width=\"250\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21931\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: GenealogyBank, Springfield Union (Springfield, Massachusetts), 12 June 1988, page 85<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This 2003 newspaper article reported the collapse of the \u201cOld Man of the Mountain,\u201d and showed before and after photographs.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_21935\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21935\" style=\"width: 392px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/advocate-newspaper-0504-2003-old-man-of-the-mountain.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21935\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/advocate-newspaper-0504-2003-old-man-of-the-mountain.png\" alt=\"An article about New Hampshire's &quot;Old Man of the Mountain,&quot; Advocate newspaper article 4 May 2003\" width=\"392\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/advocate-newspaper-0504-2003-old-man-of-the-mountain.png 392w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/advocate-newspaper-0504-2003-old-man-of-the-mountain-215x300.png 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21935\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: GenealogyBank, Advocate (Stamford, Connecticut), 4 May 2003, page 24<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>GenealogyBank\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/explore\/newspapers\/all?utm_source=social&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=SM_Blog_txtlnk_2014_00&s_referrer=social&s_siteloc=blog&s_trackval=SM_Blog_txtlnk_2014_00&kbid=69919&pq=1&prebuy=no&intver=&CCPRODCODE=\">Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a> not only give you the stories of your ancestors\u2019 lives, but also report on the times they lived in and the events they and their communities experienced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article about the collapse of New Hampshire\u2019s iconic \u201cOld Man of the Mountain,\u201d a 40-foot rock face in the White Mountains, on 3 May 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12235],"tags":[6713,412,2020,3902],"class_list":["post-21921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-american-history","tag-new-hampshire","tag-newspaper-archives","tag-old-man-of-the-mountain"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/photo-0503-2017-featured-graphic-old-man-of-the-mountain.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}