Was made aware this morning through a blog of a historical curiosity up in Fahnestock known as the King's Chamber. This structure is of a category called the "corbeled stone chambers" and due to their unknown age, wild theories abound as to their origin. Following an account of the king's chamber trail, I began beside a lonely house on a lakeshore, followed an unmarked trail through the power line clearing. Then taking a right, old stone walls wended through the warm spring woods and soon I was at a fork. told I should keep the brook on my right, I took the left fork through several stone wall gates and breaks, and on one valley wall overlooking the stream, I found the chamber. A single stonehenge-like sentinel guards its entrance, which must be seven feet tall. The interior stretches as long as my living room and just as high, with distinctive leaned-in sides. Drips fall from above and it is chilly inside. Beyond, over the hill to the east are the ruins of an old scout camp, much younger than this, and another smaller chamber dubbed "The Tomb". This place feels even denser with history than the nearby mines.
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