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Sugar Loaf Rock Plaque

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  • Location: Mounted on west side of Sugar Loaf Rock
  • Description: Plaque
  • Materials: Bronze
  • Cast: ca. 1920
  • Dedicated: ca. 1920
  • Inscription: THIS GRANITE BOULDER / LEFT HERE DURING THE / GLACIAL PERIOD HAS BEEN / KNOWN FOR GENERATIONS AS / SUGAR LOAF ROCK / AND MARKS THE BOYHOOD / PLAYGROUND OF MANY / OF THE MEN / WHOSE GALLANT DEEDS / IT NOW COMMEMORATES

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