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Sandwich, New Hampshire: Great Wall of Sandwich

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Address:
Little Pond Road, Sandwich, NH
Directions:
From Ashland drive northeast on US Hwy 3 for about four miles. Turn left onto Hwy 113. Drive about 12 miles. Drive straight onto Hwy 109 for about another two miles, then turn left onto Little Pond Rd. The Wall begins about a quarter-mile down the road, on the left.
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Great Wall of Sandwich

100 workers labored two years in the 1870s to build a mile-long, shoulder-high rock wall for rich eccentric Isaac Adams, who wanted to annoy the town that had spurned him when he was young and poor.

Roadsideamerica.com Report... [06/17/2022]

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Niobe.

Great Wall of Sandwich

It runs along Little Pond Road and also runs into the woods. There is a seven-foot-tall statue of Niobe on top of it. In 1941 a hurricane toppled the statue, and its shattered pieces went missing for nearly 70 years.

[Brian From Rockland County NY, 06/17/2022]

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