<Tr> <Td> A composite image of the Old Man of the Mountain created from images taken before and after the collapse . </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <P> The Old Man of the Mountain, also known as the Great Stone Face or the Profile, was a series of five granite cliff ledges on Cannon Mountain in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, United States, that appeared to be the jagged profile of a face when viewed from the north . The rock formation was 1,200 feet (370 m) above Profile Lake, and measured 40 feet (12 m) tall and 25 feet (7.6 m) wide . The site is located in the town of Franconia . </P> <P> The first recorded mention of the Old Man was in 1805 . It collapsed on May 3, 2003 . </P> <P> Franconia Notch is a U-shaped valley that was shaped by glaciers . The Old Man formation was probably formed from freezing and thawing of water in cracks of the granite bedrock sometime after the retreat of glaciers 12,000 years ago . The formation was first noted in the records of a Franconia surveying team around 1805 . Francis Whitcomb and Luke Brooks, part of the surveying team, were the first two to record observing the Old Man . The official state history says several groups of surveyors were working in the Franconia Notch area at the time and claimed credit for the discovery . </P>

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