The Carved Rock of Little Falls
Positioned on the sting of a excessive bluff overlooking a deep wooded ravine within the city of Little Falls sits a big boulder above the Passaic River throughout from the Little Falls Dam. The rock, which weighs a number of tons, bears a creative inscription, a petroglyph, the origins of that are a thriller. Carved into the stone is the well-rendered picture of a chicken, which resembles a hawk or falcon, perched upon a big stone.
“They name it ‘rock artwork.’” M’ke Helbing advised us when he tipped Bizarre NJ off to this little-known website. “Some declare it’s an actual Native American etching, whereas others say it was performed later by settlers.” The boulder is positioned on a facet path off a paved path within the Morris Canal Protect, which runs parallel to Primary Avenue alongside the river the place the Morris Canal as soon as ran. There are not any markers pointing the stone out as a focal point or plaques posted that attempt to clarify its existence. Most hikers stroll proper by and by no means even discover the doubtless historical inscription on the stone.
This isn’t the one mysterious carved stone to be discovered alongside the Passaic River. There may be one other rock within the city of Garfield, simply down river from the Dundee Dam that bears the engraved photographs of a bear paw, a fish and a phallus. This stone too has lengthy been the topic of debate as as to whether its inscriptions are of Native America origin or had been carved someday later. There may be actually no means of figuring out for positive. Each websites nevertheless, Little Falls and Garfield, are identified to have been favored fishing spots amongst native Indians, the Lenni Lanape tribe.
Parsippany Rockhouse
The Rock Home, positioned in Parsippany, is positioned adjoining to somebody’s yard on Dale Avenue. In 1973 there was a discovery of historical Indian petroglyphs on the partitions of this pure outcrop of bedrock. Deposited by glaciers over 10,000 years in the past, the Rock Home supplied shelter for native People from 3000 to 1000 B.C., after which once more through the center Woodland interval (500 A.D. to 1600 A.D.)
Archeologists which were surveying the world and rocks declare that the Indians who lived right here didn’t keep all yr spherical, and have discovered a wide range of stone instruments and searching implements. There was additionally proof that the Indians butchered animals on the positioning, cooked them, then carried them off to different places.
The petroglyphs appeared to have been carved into the granite with a sharp-pointed stone decide, however consultants admit that they have no idea what the symbols meant. The Morris County Heritage Fee reported in a brochure that the carvings had been animals that indicated star patterns. One was a drawing of an animal with its mouth open, and two depressions for eyes. Beneath it are two different oval-like shapes that appeared to symbolize human faces.
Others are skeptical concerning the authenticity of the carvings, claiming that they may not have been made by native Len Lenape Indians, however pre-date the European discovery of America. There are not any markers indicating the place the petroglyphs are positioned, and plenty of who go to this mysterious historical rock dwelling have but to search out them, however many come to see if they will.
The previous article is an excerpt from Bizarre NJ journal, “Your Journey Information to New Jersey’s Native Legends and Finest Saved Secrets and techniques,” which is on the market on newsstands all through the state and on the internet at www.WeirdNJ.com. All contents ©Bizarre NJ and will not be reproduced by any means with out permission.
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