Show written up by hawthorne the great stone face race the famous profile in the white mountains of new hampshire was first seen by a white man in 1805 when nathaniel hall went out one morning to shoot partridges for the breakfast of a number of road workers Nor kers encamped in the southern end of what is now known as profile jake lake nathaniel hawthorne visited the spot in 1832 and 16 years liter later he wroth the tale which immortalized the profile and made it one of the most famous nat ural curiosities in the world |