NORWAY — Two pieces of Indian Rock are expected to be positioned at the Lake Pennesseewassee picnic area on Route 118 this week.
The pieces, which partly show the existence of a large depression, were saved after highway workers jackhammered the massive boulder beside Route 117 last week to make way for reconstruction of the highway by the state. The rock was too large to move.
They were taken to the highway garage on Brown Street. Highway Superintendent Ron Springer said Monday that he expects to bring the rock to the picnic area Thursday after the site is prepared.
The rock had a deep depression, which according to legend was used by prehistoric Indians to grind corn. State archaeologists, however, investigated it several times over the past
20 years and said there is no evidence that the site was occupied by
Indians in the early 1600s. They said the depression is simply a
natural formation.
Springer said the two pieces will be put together to show where the deep depression was. “We’re going to try to set it so it looks something like a bowl,” he said.
Town officials committed themselves during the summer to trying to save the rock with hopes of putting it at the town-operated picnic area with an accompanying history for residents and tourists to view. The effort was paid for with a $1,000 personal donation of Selectmen Chairman Bill Damon and $300 from the Herbert Denison Cole Trust Fund that town voters approved in June.
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