Subject: oldest working rock in america candidate looks good up close<br/>
Date: Oct 16, 2005 @ 00:47<br/>
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos &lt;aletheiak@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1618745473">the surprising discovery on the internet last night of<br/>
a new candidate for oldest working rock in america got<br/>
me cranking first thing this morning & down highway 7<br/>
to georgetown connecticut to check it out<br/>
<br/>
after many years of searching high & low<br/>
the possibility of so sudden & happy an ending in my<br/>
own backyard was too exciting to even think about<br/>
further prolonging the chase<br/>
<br/>
slippery autumn roads & washouts hardly slowed me down<br/>
at all<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
tho the natural rock was unannounced & quite reclusive<br/>
in the bushes<br/>
& so elusive that i eventually gave up looking for her<br/>
in doubt <br/>
& even settled for a photo of the general neighborhood<br/>
<br/>
before slinking off to double check my research<br/>
she finally did pop out at me from the riverbank<br/>
almost as an afterthought <br/>
as i was on the way back to my car <br/>
a short distance farther downstream than i had<br/>
initially supposed <br/>
looking much as she did in the internet photo i beamed<br/>
up last night<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.historyofredding.com/HRGeorgetown.htm">http://www.historyofredding.com/HRGeorgetown.htm</a><br/>
but with 2 additional paint circles surrounding the<br/>
chiseled letters r & f <br/>
to go with the circled chiseled letter n<br/>
all just barely holding themselves above the swollen<br/>
white stream <br/>
<br/>
in view of the high water<br/>
i made a mental note to postpone hapiri for a few more<br/>
days yet btw<br/>
<br/>
but a trip to the local library in redding there<br/>
bagged a local history book that pushed the earliest<br/>
date of land surveys in the area back to 1640 or 1639<br/>
<br/>
& i even found a 1625 map of indian tribal territories<br/>
with a siwanog paugusset boundary that prefigures the<br/>
original fairfield norwalk line that this rock<br/>
supposedly first marked only much later<br/>
<br/>
so she might even have been a pre european indian<br/>
boundary stone<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
i found clearer evidence of her being a tripoint<br/>
marker since 1709<br/>
& possibly even a quadripoint marker in the later 18th<br/>
century<br/>
<br/>
but still no evidence of anything hard enough to hang<br/>
ones hat upon to corroborate the 1645 claim made on<br/>
the internet for an original date<br/>
<br/>
i do have a phone number for the local historical<br/>
society i will try<br/>
<br/>
but for now we have just a very strong candidate<br/>
<br/>
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