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In 1809, the remains of a reportedly 7-foot tall Abenaki man were found along the banks of the Melvin River, and more than a decade later those remains were reinterred near the original burial location. The site and these events inspired John Greenleaf Whittier's 1865 poem "The Grave by the Lake." In New Hampshire, a nearby granite monument became the first known monument marking the reparation and reburial of an Indigenous individual, and it was installed on Aug. 25, 1955 through an effort involving townspeople, archaeologists, and the Native American community.
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Melvin Village, New Hampshire · United States
