1679! That would be the oldest marker any of us have found in the
US. I did find what appears to be an original (1731) marker at the
former Connecticut - Massachusetts - New York colonial tri-point, but
it has no inscriptions to substantiate its antiquity.

Where would I look for the 1939 article you mentioned?

BJB

--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., Dallen Timothy <dtimothy@a...> wrote:
> Hi,
> Maybe some of you have already read these articles, but if any of
you have
> access to academic journals, these two are amazing articles loaded
with
> pictures and explanations:
>
> 1) Griswold, E.N. 1939. Hunting boundaries with car and camera in
the
> Northeastern United States. Geographical Review, 29(3): 353-382.
> 2) Ritter, G. and Hajdu, J.G. 1989. The east-west German boundary.
> Geographical Review, 79(3): 326-344.
>
> The 1939 article is especially insightful. It shows many pictures
of some
> of the earlier border markers in the NE USA and the US-Canada
border.
> Speaking of this, I found an old stone marker on the Rhode
> Island-Connecticut border under some poison ivy and other brush
that was the
> original border marker from the colonial days. The C and R were
just barely
> visible and I believe the year was 1679 or thereabouts. This too
was barely
> visible. This was in 1996, so I hope they haven't thrown it away.
>
> Dallen