here it looks like only a few original town lines really converged
http://www.oldmapsetc.com/barnstablewallmap.jpg
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "aletheiak"
<aletheiak@y...> wrote:
>
> & proceeding from mass town line supermarketing
> to mass town line super megapointing
> i see the claim is made about halfway down the page in
> http://www.rootsweb.com/~mabarnst/
> that if you extend the original borders of the towns of
barnstable
> county massachusetts out into cape cod bay
> they will all meet at a single point in the middle of the bay
>
> suggesting a ship at anchor was used to survey them by night
>
>
> & while i havent yet been able to find a good enough map to tie
> all these town lines together well enough to either substantiate
> or bust this claim
> & tho clearly many modifications would also have had to occur
> since such a hypothetical big bang & point of origin occurred
> if indeed there ever really was one
> there definitely do at least appear at first glance to be many
> possible remnants of such a comprehensive alignment in the
9
> town lines successively separating in clockwise order
> provincetown
> truro
> wellfleet
> eastham
> orleans
> brewster
> dennis
> yarmouth
> barnstable &
> sandwich
> & perhaps also continuing with several additional towns
beyond
> barnstable county & up the west side of the bay
>
> but can anyone shed any further light upon this grand
> perhaps
> hyperdecapoint
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Bill Hanrahan"
> <w1wh@a...> wrote:
> >
> > Another Massachusetts example is the supermarket on the
> line between
> > the towns of Plymouth and Kingston...the town line is marked
> through
> > the store by a black line on the floor.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> >
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Len Levin
> <levinlen@y...> wrote:
> > > There is a Big Y Supermarket in Massachusetts
> > > that is on the line between two towns - Hadley &
> > > Amherst. There is a line in the floor that traverses
> > > the entire market (right through the produce section
> > > if I remember) indicating the town line (and marked
> > > "Amherst" and "Hadley" on the appropriate sides a
> > > couple of times - sorry, no pictures).