FRANCONIA, N.H. (AP) -- More than seven years after the granite profile of New Hampshire's Old Man of the Mountain crumbled, organizers are breaking ground for a memorial to it.

The famed rock outcropping, which appeared to be the profile of a man, hung 1,200 feet above Profile Lake in Franconia Notch State Park before disintegrating suddenly in May 2003.

A planned memorial design was announced in 2007.

On Thursday, organizers are scheduled to break ground for the first part, a new lakeside pavilion and stainless steel "profilers" that will allow viewers to line up the sculptures' irregular edges and "see" the outline of the Old Man on the cliff where it once appeared.

The first phase is scheduled to be finished in October.

Model showing plans for the "profiler" section of the "Old Man of the Mountain" memorial.

Click here for Old Man Legacy Fund Website:
http://www.oldmanofthemountainlegacyfund.org

Click here for video about the memorial being planned.
http://www.oldmanofthemountainlegacyfund.org/video.html