while they arent exactly on the state line
as the fortification was slightly inland from the original shoreline
nevertheless pinning these 2 corner points of the old fort to the
1857 map
along with a third point on liberty island also clearly depicted on it
& also still extant
is what made it possible to triangulate for all 182 turnpoints of
the reconstructed boundary
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Asher Samuels
<asher972@y...> wrote:
> The closest that one gets to any sort of mark for the border is
the remains of
> Fort Gibson. While a National Parks Service sign identifies the
fort, it fails
> to mark its modern significance. Since the points of the border
marked the
> waterline, once could then transpose the shoreline from older
maps onto the
> present-day island, determining the border.
>
> (This is an oversimplification. I look forward to Mike's
> clarification)
>
> Asher Samuels
> asher972@y...
>
>
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