Pratt Rock, also known as Pratt's Rock, is a rockface or other landform that includes a series of stone carvings in Prattsville, New York depicting the life of Zadock Pratt. Pratt was supposed to be buried in a tomb carved into the stone, but work was stopped after only a small recessed chamber was created because water leaked through the rock overhead, and excavating the stone was providing to be too difficult.
Ripley's Believe it or Not once called it "New York's Mt. Rushmore".
As Pratt Rock Park, the place was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
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“So motionless, she seemed stone dead—just seemed:
She was too old for death, too old for life,
For as if jealous of all living forms
She had lain there before bivalves began
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—Edwin John Pratt (1882–1964)
“each rock a word
a creek-washed stone
Granite: ingrained
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