Subject: sussex nj<br/>
Date: Apr 04, 2005 @ 17:35<br/>
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos &lt;aletheiak@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div>this message gratefully dedicated to all who have come&nbsp;before on this topic</div>
<div>especially mike &amp; kevin &amp; doc</div>
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<div>jc &amp; i&nbsp;visited the northeast &amp; southwest &amp; north vertices of the octagon</div>
<div>as&nbsp;shown by usgs</div>
<div>&amp; found them not obviously marked</div>
<div>tho there was a wine cork puller stuck in the ground that&nbsp;i initially mistook for an exotic marker</div>
<div>&amp; which fooled me enough to actually photograph it</div>
<div>hahaha</div>
<div>&amp; then an old tire&nbsp;that was sculpted into a decorative planting bed got my hopes up</div>
<div>&amp;&nbsp;next an undressed blocky rock</div>
<div>etc </div>
<div>etc</div>
<div>but had to conclude&nbsp;the&nbsp;8 vertices&nbsp;are most likely not durably monumented</div>
<div>at least not in any really&nbsp;demonstrative way</div>
<div>as&nbsp;these 3 corners at least certainly&nbsp;appeared to have&nbsp;no marker types in common</div>
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<div>i did however find an old map here in sussex library tho </div>
<div>that shows the vertices about&nbsp;100 feet offset from the&nbsp;usgs positions</div>
<div>yikes</div>
<div>so perhaps there is still something left to&nbsp;check here</div>
<div>not only at the 5 remote vertex positions i didnt check&nbsp;</div>
<div>which could still have undisturbed markers&nbsp;marking them</div>
<div>but also at the 3 roadside vertices i did presume to have exhausted&nbsp;</div>
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<div>perhaps more interestingly tho</div>
<div>we found&nbsp;a fountain at the central square called fountain square&nbsp;dedicated 1902</div>
<div>which i later learned is also&nbsp;the&nbsp;year of the incorporation &amp; octagonization of the town of deckertown into the boro of sussex</div>
<div>&amp; which was initially my guess at the center monument</div>
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<div>but then jc spotted in deckertown&nbsp;commons </div>
<div>directly across the street from the fountain</div>
<div>an octagonal gazebo</div>
<div>i kid you not</div>
<div>also circa 1902</div>
<div>&amp; more or less properly oriented yet</div>
<div>which immediately displaced the fountain as leading contender for&nbsp;focal point</div>
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<div>&amp; in the paving stones around the gazebo were 10 rosettes with centers of 8 stones each</div>
<div>9 of them&nbsp;in a row</div>
<div>symbolizing i figured&nbsp;the 8 vertices &amp; center point</div>
<div>&amp; then the tenth one off on the side</div>
<div>perhaps recapitulating the entire octagon</div>
<div>&amp; leading directly to the stairway of the arts showcase &amp; real centerpiece of the community</div>
<div>the tri state actors theatre</div>
<div>i kid you not</div>
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<div>i have asked a few people too</div>
<div>but no one knows anything</div>
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<div>even a written history of sussex i found passes blissfully thru 1902 without even mentioning the incorporation </div>
<div>&amp; shows the offset octagonal map without even remarking on its shape</div>
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<div>it is like the town that went to sleep for 100 years</div>
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<div>very nice place too</div>
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<div>worth continuing the try if anyone is interested</div>
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<div>but i think we are history here for now</div>
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<div>beeps</div>
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<div>oh &amp; btw brendan</div>
<div>i have seen a few pages&nbsp;on the internet that say the&nbsp;tin bigha corridor&nbsp;is also near a place called tin bigha&nbsp;</div>
<div>possibly&nbsp;supporting or even being the source of your guess</div>
<div>&amp; even one page that identifies&nbsp;tin bigha&nbsp;as a nearby island</div>
<div>but nothing i could feel very confident about in any of this</div>
<div>&amp;&nbsp;no gazzetteer or map yet&nbsp;that identifies such a place</div>
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<div>but i just wanted to give you the benefit of what i did find in favor of your guess</div>
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