But the glaciers didnt move the boulder to where it currently stands.
The Rollstone Boulder was originally located at the summit of Rollstone Hill, about a mile away.
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Over time this boulder became a national landmark where people would hike to and picnic.
Later, an iron band was added circling the stone, to keep it from crumbling.
The time came in 1929.
The two quarries on Rollstone Hill had got dangerously close to where the Rollstone boulder was perched.
But the deep fissures in the rock proved to be deceptive.
When the iron band was removed, the boulder did not fall apart.
Eventually, the city had a take a painful decision blow up the rock.
But even that scheme was not easily realized.
The rock withstood multiple blasts with black powder before toppling from the ledge and breaking up into multiple pieces.
For a while, people worried that the rock could never be put together again.
Local stonemason J. Marc Leblanc found it difficult to assemble the pieces.
Strangely, the inscription on the plaque is entirely misleading.
It said:
This boulder, carried by the last glacier from Mt.
Threatened with destruction by quarrying operations, it was saved by popular subscription and reassembled here.
19201930
First, the Rollstone Boulder was not brought from Mt.
Monadnock, but somewhere in central New Hampshire.
And according to at least one source, Leblanc was never paid for his efforts.
Today it lies in the traffic triangle, barely noticed by motorists.
Sources:Wikipedia/Geocache/Lewiston Evening Journal - May 31, 1951
