"Bound Rock's fame in the border dispute is now
equaled by its distinction as the second oldest
boundary marker in the entire country."
Several things to consider:
1. What exactly is meant by "second oldest boundary
marker in the entire country?"
- 2nd Oldest surviving state (colony) bordermarker
still in use as a state marker (obviously not the case
here)
- 2nd Oldest surviving state bordermarker still in use
as a border of some sort (county, town, etc.)
- 2nd Oldest state ghost marker (not necessarily
serving as anything now)
- 2nd Oldest surviving state bordermarker (either in
use or not in use; combination of last 3 scenarios)
- 2nd Oldest bordermarker (including lesser entities
like counties, towns)
- 2nd Oldest ghost marker (including lesser entities)
2. Could this have changed over the last 3 decades?
3. Could this even have been correct in the first
place?
4. What is the oldest?
Mike: What is the marker from the 1720s? Is it ghost
or current?
--- m06079 <
barbaria_longa@...> wrote:
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Michael
> Kaufman"
> <mikekaufman79@y...> wrote:
> > Formerly formed the border between MA and NH
> (surveyed in the
> 1650s -
> > the articles present different possible dates
> 1656, 1657, 1659 as
> to
> > the actual marking of the border). Later on, from
> 1768 to 1953,
> the
> > rock served as the tripoint marker between the New
> Hampshire towns
> of
> > Hampton, Hampton Falls, and Seabrook. Now it is
> on the the Hampton-
> > Seabrook boundary.
> >
> >
>
http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us/hampton/history/boundrock.htm
> > (The 2nd article from 1971 claims it as the 2nd
> oldest bordermarker
> > in the US.)
>
> wow nice shooting
>
> the previous oldest known to me was 1720s
>
> wonder what the oldest is then
>
> >
> > Topozone shows the current Hampton-Hampton
> Falls-Seabrook TP in the
> > Hampton Harbor:
> > http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?
> >
>
z=19&n=4750866.00011595&e=351354.999988967&datum=nad83
>
>
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