Fragments of an Earlier World

Stone Faces Gazetteer
Antropomorphic Features

Arizona

Thumb Butte
Prescott

    Some early settlers viewing this outcrop from the south saw a hand with a prominent thumb, while others viewing from the west saw a sphinx.

    GPS N 34° 32.809', W 112° 31.160'

Illinois

Devil's Nose
Starved Rock State Park

Sandstone outcrop south of Starved Rock overlooking no-longer-used trail above French Canyon

GPS N 41° 19.217', W 88° 59.393'

Michigan

Old Maid's Nipple
Boyne City

120-foot mound just east of Boyne City was likely denuded by logging around the early 1900s, a decade or two before the postcard photo. Nowadays the shape of the hill is not as easily visible behind trees.

MNM#01-01383

GPS N 45° 12.010', W 84° 58.929'

Old Maid's Nipple

Nebraska

Giant's Thumb
Crawford

Chimney rock located just south of Lover's Leap Butte. Some old guidebooks refer to it as "Grant's Thumb".

MNM#01-02014

GPS N 42° 41.483', W 103° 26.704'

Giant's Thumb

New York

Anthony's Nose
Cortlandt

900-foot mountain on the east bank of the Hudson River is thought to have been named in the 1600s after the prominent nose of Antoine de Hooges, secretary of the Rensselaerswyck colony at Albany

MNM#01-01335

GPS N 41° 19.126', W 73° 58.579'

North Carolina

Nose End Rock
Linville

Nose End
Whiteside Mountain

    A rock nose without a face.

    MNM#01-01031

Utah

Molar Rock
Canyonlands National Park

Nancy’s Nipple
Green River

Molly’s Nipple
Hurricane

One of seven pointed peaks in Utah known as Molly's Nipple.

GPS N 37° 07.715', W 113° 17.875'

Big Stoney
Kodachrome Basin

Prominent feature looming over Kodachrome State Park campground.

MNM#01-01033

GPS N 37° 31.829', W 111° 59.656'

Vermont

The Chin
Mount Mansfield

Part of a great stone profile extending the length of Mount Mansfield

MNM#01-01177

GPS N 44° 32.593', W 72° 48.901'

Wisconsin

Devil's Thumb
Ashland

Rock pillar at end of hand-like small island, possibly in Apostle Islands?

MNM#01-02018

Switzerland

The Tooth of Jaman
Avants, Vaud

Sharp toothlike peak east of Lake Geneva near Montreaux

MNM#01-01352

GPS 46°26'42.5" N, 6°58'29.4" E

Tête d'Indien

Thailand

Hinta & Hinyai
Koh Samui

"Grandfather" and "Grandmother" natural rock formations are located near each other on the southeast coast of Ko Samui island

MNM#01-01112

GPS N 9° 27.118', E 100° 02.390'


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