New Hampshire's famous Old Man of the Mountain rock profile collapsed from Cannon Cliff in 2003. At Profile Plaza, steel "profilers" allow visitors to stand at specific points and visually reconstruct the vanished face against the cliff. The memorial turns an absent landmark into something visitors can still physically line up and see. Secondary source: https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=81875
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: nhstateparks.org/find-parks-trails/franconia-notch-state-park