Subject: another question for william s schenck<br/>
Date: Nov 16, 2000 @ 20:29<br/>
Author: michael donner (michael donner &lt;m@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-423859424">dear mr schenck<br/>
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thanxx for your response & again for <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.udel.edu/dgs/pub/info6.html">http://www.udel.edu/dgs/pub/info6.html</a><br/>
among all the other delaware state boundary monument facilities<br/>
<br/>
in addition to the 179 monuments you mention & cover<br/>
i would like to nominate a 180th for your consideration or review<br/>
<br/>
it is described in the following excerpt from a boundary point discussion<br/>
group & it is illustrated in the second photo in<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.angelfire.com/md2/polystate4/index8.html">http://www.angelfire.com/md2/polystate4/index8.html</a><br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt;<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;second pic<br/>
&gt;tangent point of complex curve near middle of depa arc<br/>
&gt;a rare interstate interclass tripoint involving 2 pennsylvania towns & the<br/>
&gt;unincorporated area of a delaware county<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;the unusual & quaint monument<br/>
&gt;very strangely<br/>
&gt;is not even reported by the otherwise complete state of delaware bdy mon<br/>
&gt;website<br/>
&gt;& it has a unique hand chiseled inscription that reads as follows<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;  this stone marks the site of the old hickory tree on the delaware<br/>
&gt;pennsylvania boundary 1701<br/>
&gt;  also a point in the east line of the manor granted by wm penn in 1701 to<br/>
&gt;his daughter letitia<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;the depa arc was first marked in 1701 & it included a blaze on the<br/>
&gt;mentioned hickory tree<br/>
&gt;so the monument is obviously much later than that<br/>
&gt;dating perhaps from the 1770s or 1780s<br/>
&gt;the period when delaware seceded from pennsylvania as well as from the<br/>
&gt;british empire to go it alone briefly as the first & only state of that<br/>
&gt;time<br/>
&gt;before eventually being joined by all 49 of the other united states<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;it was along this arc & only along this arc that the first true state<br/>
&gt;line came into being<br/>
&gt;& it was at this monumented point upon it that the arc itself subsequently<br/>
&gt;fractured<br/>
&gt;as its westerly fragment pivoted & stretched a bit  between 1849 & 1892  to<br/>
&gt;produce 2 distinct arcs with slightly differing radii & centers<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>also william<br/>
if you have deliberately excluded this monument from consideration for some<br/>
reason<br/>
i am wondering whether you have any other information about it<br/>
especially with regard to its date or cause<br/>
<br/>
with best wishes<br/>
m<br/>
mick donner</div>