Michael, Did you peruse any of the other
locations on the ksphototour site?
Check
#48 Southwest Three Corner Monument and you will find that four
feet
under
the manhole plate in the center of the road near the windmill is the
original
marker
stone. It was moved there after a couple of surveys located the
correct
location. So this is another one where we should have
pried up the cover.
I
noticed in #51 NW Corners Monument that they repeated the spelling
error
which exists in the bronze plaque. Oliver
Chaffee's name is spelled Caffee
in the
first mention of his name and later is spelled correctly.
Also
#66 SE Corner Monument, they show and describe only the big stone
cairn.
We
need more definitive info on this spot.
Jack
-----Original Message-----
From:
michael donner [mailto:m@...]
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001
9:49 PM
To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re:
[BoundaryPoint] toward happier obelisks
i just realized also that there are some extremely thin
but still real
obelisks in many places along the caus & mxus
lines
& http://ksphototour.8m.com/meridian.htm
may save you a trip to the scanner
jack for the quintiobelisk
tho
a better pic of the novel quintipyramid at the top of this monument if
you
have one would still be a real thrill to
see
m
>
>well thanx for running down that
obelisk peter
>& i do apologize for the horrendously bad
query
>
>it was the resemblance between hoogstift & stifter
that got me in dutch &
>czech here
simultaneously
>
>seriously glad to learn this is not an olympic
contender tho
>since the tallest actual tripoint & boundary obelisk
i know of is the
>little one at us2ctmari
>of which a photo is
attached below
>
>taller & more distinctive than this
one
>tho i have only half a pic of it & am hoping jack can bail me
out here with
>a good pic because he just visited there last
year
>is the commemorative quintiobelisk that stands a short distance
from the
>initial point of the sixth principal meridian of the united
states public
>land survey
>
>the actual point it
celebrates
>hidden in a crypt beneath a roadway
>is simultaneously
also both an interstate & a quadricounty point
>or
us2ksne3jerethwa6pm in all i think by name
>
>the
obelisk is a quinti because lands of 5 states were surveyed from
this
>point of reference
>
>m
>
>
>
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