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Franconia

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Franconia

Duchy of medieval Germany, conquered and settled in the 7th century by the Franks. By the end of the 13th century it had been divided among numerous principalities.

Franconia

Resort town in Grafton County, north New Hampshire; population (1990) 800. Franconia is on the headwaters of the Gale River, 10 km/6 mi southeast of Littleton. Robert Frost Place, where the poet lived from 1915–20, is in the town.

Franconia

Town in Fairfax County, northeast Virginia; population (1990) 19,900. It is largely residential, lying to the southwest of Alexandria.



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It is not impossible that this conceit occurred to Hawthorne before he had himself seen the Old Man of the Mountain, or the Profile, in the Franconia Notch which is generally associated in the minds of readers with The Great Stone Face.
The Great Carbuncle by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
the solitary horseman of the classic romances--might have been observed wending his way across Franconia in a north-easterly direction, and at a height of about eleven thousand feet above the sea and still spindling slowly.
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