Endicott Rock

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Coordinates: 43°36′15″N 71°27′22″W / 43.60417°N 71.45611°W / 43.60417; -71.45611 Endicott Rock is a state park located on the shore of Lake Winnipesaukee in the Weirs Beach village of Laconia, New Hampshire. Its principal attraction is a large rock originally in the lake that was incised with lettering in 1652 by surveyors for the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The rock provides definitive evidence of one of the earliest incursions of Europeans into the area.

For many years the rock's existence was unknown, until it was rediscovered in the 19th century. The state then undertook to protect the rock from the elements, building a pavilion over it and stabilizing cracks in the rock with iron fittings. The markings on the rock include "IOHN ENDICUT GOV", a reference to John Endecott, who was then governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the initials of the surveyors. The colony's boundaries, according to its charter, were 3 miles (4.8 km) north of the Merrimack River, and the rock was incorrectly believed by the English party to mark the northernmost head of the river (the headwaters of the Merrimack's main tributary, the Pemigewasset River, are significantly further north, but the survey party was misled by its Indian guides).

The small park is free to the public, and offers picnic facilities. Materials from the New Hampshire Division of Parks and Recreation sometimes identify the site as a historic site, and sometimes as a state park.

References

"New Hampshire Division of Parks and Recreation: Endicott Rock". New Hampshire Division of Parks and Recreation. Retrieved 2011-01-04.

Protected areas of New Hampshire

Federal

National Historic Site	Saint-Gaudens

National Forests	White Mountain

National Trails	Appalachian Trail

National Wildlife Refuges	Great Bay John Hay Silvio O. Conte Umbagog Wapack

Other Protected Areas	Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve

State

State Parks	Ahern Androscoggin Annett Bear Brook Bear's Den Beaver Brook Falls Bedell Bridge Binney Pond Bradford Pines Cardigan Cathedral Ledge Chesterfield Gorge Clough Coleman Crawford Notch Crosby Mountain Curtiss Dogwood Daniel Webster Birthplace Deer Mountain Campground Dixville Notch Dublin Lake Echo Lake Eisenhower Memorial Ellacoya Endicott Rock Forest Lake Fort Constitution Fort Stark Franconia Notch Franklin Pierce Homestead Gardner Memorial Wayside Governor Wentworth Historical Site Greenfield Hampton Beach Hannah Duston Heath Pond Bog Humphrey's Ledge Jenness Jeremy Hill Jericho Mountain Kingston Lake Francis Lake Tarleton Madison Boulder Mascot Mine Milan Hill Miller Mollidgewock Monadnock Moose Brook Mt. Sunapee Mt. Washington Nansen Wayside North Hampton Northwood Meadows Odiorne Point Otter Brook Pawtuckaway Pillsbury Pisgah Plummer's Ledge Rhododendron Robert Frost Rollins Rye Harbor Sculptured Rocks Silver Lake Smith's Ferry Taylor Mill Umbagog Lake Wadleigh Wallis Sands Wantastiquet Mountain Weeks Wellington Wentworth Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion White Island White Lake Winslow

State Forests	Abbott Agnew Allen Alton Bay Ames Ammonoosuc Annett Annie Duncan Ashenden Ayers Ballard Bear Mountain Belknap Mountain Benton Big Island Black Mountain Blair Blue Job Mountain Bowditch-Runnels Cape Horn Cardigan Mountain Carroll Casalis Chemung Cilley Connecticut Lakes Connecticut River Contoocook Conway Common Lands Cowden Craney Hill Cushman Davisville Davis-White Devils Slide District #5 Dodge Brook Eaton Fall Mountain Fay Feuer Foster & Colburn Fox Gay George Duncan Gile Gilmore Goodwin-Chandler Grant Green Mountain Hamel Harriman-Chandler Haven Hemenway Hodgman Honey Brook Hubbard Hill Huston-Morgan Hyland Hill Kearsarge Mountain Lang Station Lead Mine Leighton Litchfield Little Pine River Livermore Falls Lord Pines Lovewell Mountain Low Marshall Mascoma Mast Yard Max Israel Meadow Pond Merrimack River Merriman Mt. Major Nash Stream Nottingham Nursery Opechee Bay Page Page's Corner Paugus Bay Percy Pine River Piscataquog Powwow River Prescott Province Road Ragged Mountain Reed's Ferry Rock Rimmon Russell Russell-Abbott Russell-Shea Saltmarsh Pond Sanborn Scribner-Fellows Second Presidential Sentinel Mountain Shadow Hill Shaker Shieling Sky Pond Soucook River Southeast Stevens Pines Strawberry Hill Sugar Hill Swain Taylor Totten Trails Upton Morgan Urban Forestry Center Vienna Smith Vincent Wade Walker Welton Falls West Iron Works Road White Farm William Thomas Woodman

Other

Other	Lost River Reservation Proctor Wildlife Sanctuary Sheldrick Forest Preserve

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