Welcome to America's Stonehenge

WELCOME FELLOW SNARKERS.  THIS HISTORICAL SITE IS FULL OF PRE-COLUMBIAN STRUCTURES MADE BY CELTIC MONKS (the CULDEES) OR OTHER NON-NATIVE OR POSSIBLY NATIVE SUPER OLD CULTURES AND NOT BY 18TH-19TH CENTURY FARMERS.  THESE ANCIENT STRUCTURES WERE NOT REARRANGED OR CREATED IN AN ATTEMPT TO SCAM TOURIST DOLLARS BY CREATING AN AIR OF "MYSTERY AND MYSTICISM."  THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION.

America's Stonehenge!  This little hill up in Salem, New Hampshire, was first referred to in the "History of Salem" as Jonathan Pattee's cave.  The site was "studied" by William Goodwin around 1937, Goodwin redubbing it "Mystery Hill." Goodwin was the first to suggest that "mystery hill" had been inhabited by Pre-Columbian peoples.  In fact, he was so convinced that he rearranged the rocks into what he considered to be their "original" positions, as laid out by these archaic folk, and many of the stones have drill marks from his quarrying.  I mean, from pre-Columbian quarrying.  While there is no doubt that native people have been living here for a very, very long time, unfortunately there is no connection between regular Stonehenge and "America's" Stonehenge, and the site's current name was implemented to try to distance it from all those fake roadside attractions, and give it weight as an active archeological site.  You know, by giving it a name with no historical or archeological base in fact.  While there is no doubt that native people have been here for quite some time, it seems like the Astronomical structures were more Goodwin's doing than anything else.  Still, the site has attracted interest and visits from the likes of HP Lovecraft (the site inspiring his "the Dunwich Horror"), Leonard Nimoy (on "In Search of"), William Shatner (on "Weird or What") and of course, most impressively, Lizzie and me.