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Originally Posted by mcdude
As I type, I am looking at Straightback Mountain. I don't know this for sure but I would have to guess that it is called "Straightback" is because it does not form a peak at the top, but rather a straight back....like a spine. Don't you think so?
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I have had the same thought, mcdude. I have a regular view from up on Ridge Road in New Durham that also shows it being a ‘straight back’. (Some hiking may have thought it a trail ‘straight back’ to the parking lot, I think, and ended up in the opposite direction.)
Interestingly, the nice map from 1771 only mentions the area where the Belknap Range would be as “The Kings Woods”
http://www.winnipesaukee.com/forums/...ead.php?t=6116
On the map from 1784 it names Mt. Major only (somehow I have the map link but can’t find the thread it was from.)
http://www.winnipesaukee.com/photopo...iokee_Lake.jpg