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graniteman
Merrimack, NH, USA
Posts: 1049
 | | A mountain renamed - Roundtop | | Posted on: 7/1/2010 9:23:31 AM | Not sure if this is a real story or not, just heard this from a co-worker. But apparently after the war when veterans returned to New Hampshire they renamed a pair of hills/mountains "Roundtop" as it reminded them of the one they saw in Gettysburg. Check out [Read More] - zoom in (clicking on the image works for me, not sure how others would do it) - then look at the lower left side. You'll see "Roundtop" with it's two sections clearly shown. My co-worker lives in the saddle - he says the rise to the right is "Little" and the one to the left "Big".
If people have trouble zooming - let me know, I'll snap a blown up image and post that.
Road trip Steve?! 
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Alan
"...a few clear visions surrounded by a thousand shadows dancing on the wall of our ignorance."
Red Bailey
"We few, we happy few, we band of nuts" (with apologies to W. Shakespeare)
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graniteman
Merrimack, NH, USA
Posts: 1049
| | Re: A mountain renamed - Roundtop | | Posted on: 7/1/2010 9:27:15 AM | What the heck - here's the image blown up with the interesting area shown:
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Regards,
Alan
"...a few clear visions surrounded by a thousand shadows dancing on the wall of our ignorance."
Red Bailey
"We few, we happy few, we band of nuts" (with apologies to W. Shakespeare)
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Red Bailey
Dewey, AZ, USA
Posts: 840
| | Re: A mountain renamed - Roundtop | | Posted on: 7/1/2010 10:54:04 AM | I notice on the larger-area map that there's also a Devil's Den Road. It tends east and south from New Hampton.
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'War is often the result of the failure to reason' - Anonymous
As usual,
Red
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graniteman
Merrimack, NH, USA
Posts: 1049
| | Re: A mountain renamed - Roundtop | | Posted on: 7/1/2010 11:04:25 AM | And notice the "Sugar Hill" right above Roundtop - I have another map (from a book on the history of Bristol) that also has a "Roundtop" and a "Little Roundtop" listed on it. It looks like it was about 1883 that the "new" names were associated with it - presumably in an article in the "Bristol Enterprise". Early town records called it the New Chester mountain.
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Regards,
Alan
"...a few clear visions surrounded by a thousand shadows dancing on the wall of our ignorance."
Red Bailey
"We few, we happy few, we band of nuts" (with apologies to W. Shakespeare)
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