For some reason, their website doesn't have an image of the stone, so here is one.
Neat. Europe having so much history is bizarre to me. I can't fathom living in and walking amongst buildings that are multiple centuries old.
"Americans think 100 years is old. Europeans think 100 miles is far."
Not sure if you're in the U.S., but it sounds like you are. Our written history doesn't go as far back as Europe's, but we do still have some centuries-old buildings built by colonists and, of course, buildings built by indigenous people that are far older.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_buildings_in_the_United_States
The oldest colonial building in the U.S. is, probably unsurprisingly, in Puerto Rico. La Casa Blanca, built in 1521.
The oldest colonial building in the continental U.S. is the Palace of the Governors, built in Santa Fe, NM, built in 1610.
The oldest British colonial building in the U.S. is the Jamestown Church tower in Jamestown, VA, in 1639, but since that's all that remains of the church, that might go to the still-standing Henry Whitefield House in Guilford, CT built in the same year.
There are also still a lot of 18th century buildings in New England.
Edit: I forgot to mention the amazing Taos Pueblo in New Mexico. It was originally built about 1000 years ago and it has been continuously occupied ever since. People still live there today!
While I'm familiar with the east coast and have visited some older structures and monuments there, it still leaves me in awe. I'm from the new new world so even our historic buildings are maybe a century and a half in age. Maybe. Indigenous structures didn't survive for the most part.
What's also fascinating is how people can be incredibly blasé about a 500 year old building they drive past on their way to work every day. Incredible.
I admit, it's pretty cool to do things like walk down the street in London and look down at a manhole cover and see that it has the date imprinted on it and has been there since the start of the industrial revolution.
"We cant promise you much other than, if you visit us, we can guarantee you'll come back again !"
That's a really hard guarantee to live up to. It almost sounds like an ominous threat.
Perhaps the stone is cursed. All the employees were former guests, going back to before the first structure around the stone.
The stone calls out to you.
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