Discover the Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone! “In early June 1872 workmen found a suspicious lump of clay while digging a posthole in Meredith Village, at the point where Lake Waukewan originally emptied into Lake Winnipesaukee near a spot known locally as Hodgson’s mill. The workmen gave it to financier Seneca A. Ladd, a local collector of minerals and relics. Some accounts claim the land was Ladd’s, and he had hired the workmen himself. Others relate that Ladd just happened to be passing by when the clay lump was found, and he rescued it from the dirt pile” (NH Historical Society) Click on the Link to read more!