Hunterdon Co. Democrat. Thursday, December 07, 2006
By Rachael Brickman
"At first glance, the 600-pound stone with a rounded depression on its top doesn't look like much. Few passersby would have identified it as anything more than a strangely shaped boulder as it sat in a stream in the Quakertown area of Franklin Township. But with keen eyes and a shared love of local history, Robert McGeary and Lora Jones aren't like most passersby. The two spotted the possible artifact and believe it to be an old food-grinding stone, the Native American equivalent of a mortar and pestle, only without the pestle.
McGeary, former mayor of Franklin Township, and Jones, the township historian, had been researching an area known as Indian Peak as a possible name for a new road nearby, when Jones remembered having seen a partially hollowed-out rock nearby. The two went and found the big stone partially submerged in a stream, an unnamed tributary of the Capoolong Creek. McGeary identified it as a potential Native American artifact, possibly thousands of years old. "
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