The 1679 date is only approx. from my memory. I'll have to look it up in my notes, but I'm pretty sure it's from the 1600s sometime, but it could be the early 1700s. I'll bet the marker is still there and would be worth visiting and documenting for those of you who live in that area before it's taken away and either thrown in a garbage pile by Connecticut's highway department or, less likely, put in a museum.
Dallen
-----Original Message-----
From: bjbutler@... [mailto:bjbutler@...]
Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2001 6:47 PM
To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: articles
1679! That would be the oldest marker any of us have found in the
US. I did find what appears to be an original (1731) marker at the
former Connecticut - Massachusetts - New York colonial tri-point, but
it has no inscriptions to substantiate its antiquity.
Where would I look for the 1939 article you mentioned?
BJB
--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., Dallen Timothy <dtimothy@a...> wrote:
> Hi,
> Maybe some of you have already read these articles, but if any of
you have
> access to academic journals, these two are amazing articles loaded
with
> pictures and explanations:
>
> 1) Griswold, E.N. 1939. Hunting boundaries with car and camera in
the
> Northeastern United States. Geographical Review, 29(3): 353-382.
> 2) Ritter, G. and Hajdu, J.G. 1989. The east-west German boundary.
> Geographical Review, 79(3): 326-344.
>
> The 1939 article is especially insightful. It shows many pictures
of some
> of the earlier border markers in the NE USA and the US-Canada
border.
> Speaking of this, I found an old stone marker on the Rhode
> Island-Connecticut border under some poison ivy and other brush
that was the
> original border marker from the colonial days. The C and R were
just barely
> visible and I believe the year was 1679 or thereabouts. This too
was barely
> visible. This was in 1996, so I hope they haven't thrown it away.
>
> Dallen
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