This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.

So I'm down at the bottom of the hill away from the highway and I'm about to cross a really old railroad bridge, not an active railroad anymore.

That's Jack Roteliko wandering around the New Hampshire woods. It's a pretty view.

He's about 10 miles north of the state capital of the interstate 93. In a pretty out-of-the-way place,

there are no signs or markers on the road indicating something special is there.

But he's found something.

So you get out to this little island and

the railroad tracks go straight across but what you really notice is this epic

looking

granite monument in the middle of the island.

It looks a lot like a monument you'd see in a city park except it's on a forested island in the middle of a river.

It is enormous.

It's 30 feet tall.

Wow

It's all granite and on top of a tall pedestal. There's a woman.

She's wearing this gown that's falling off her shoulders. In her right hand, she has a tomhawk and in her left hand

she has a fistful of scouts and on the back of this thing, I'm gonna run around to the back here, is

the inscription. Now let's pause for just a second here.

If you are a regular listener to the show, you know how I feel about plaques and always reading them.

The reason being that plaques tell stories, sometimes they tell really amazing stories if you can decipher them.

March 15th, the 30th, 1697. The Warhoop, Tomahawk, Faggot and Infanta Sides were at Haverl.

The ashes of wigwam campfires at night and of ten of the tribe are here.

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