Subject: dcmdvas tripoint has had at least 3 different positions<br/>
Date: Nov 26, 2001 @ 02:57<br/>
Author: orc@orcoast.com (orc@...)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1707898036">len<br/>
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your pic is marker number 14 of the 1947 series<br/>
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bus&ss p91 says of it in digest<br/>
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1 supreme court reaffirmed dcva line at high water mark in 1931<br/>
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2 usgs determined & marked dcva high water line with this marker & others in 1947<br/>
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3 the pierhead line modification that was adopted in 59stat552 at some later date skirted & retired this entire demarcation <br/>
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but it is my recollection that your marker 14 or some other number that was the terminal marker in the series <br/>
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tho also the former dcmdvas tripoint <br/>
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is not the present dcmdvas tripoint either <br/>
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but does at least stand in true alignment with the surviving sector of the dcva line running northeastward from just offshore thru the side of the drawbridge tower<br/>
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all of which you can & really should see at topozone<br/>
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but especially the present tripoint location as shown there<br/>
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because i think all the depictions are basically correct there<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="qreply"> --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., &quot;L. A. Nadybal&quot; &lt;lnadybal@h...&gt; wrote:<br/>
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&gt; Hi.<br/>
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&gt; Here&#39;s one of the photos I took - it&#39;s the mark which is what I called<br/>
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&gt; the tri-point marker - it is not one that is in the lighthouse.<br/>
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&gt; When one stands above the pictured marker, and one looks off 45% east of<br/>
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&gt; north (i.e., to the northwest, and can follow the DC-MD border line on<br/>
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&gt; the maps and easily see that from that point, where the eastern end of<br/>
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&gt; the District of Columbia&#39;s portion of the Wilson Bridge, 200 meters<br/>
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&gt; distant, is.   The District&#39;s western border on the bridge is right<br/>
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&gt; above the shore of the Potomac.  If one walks north of this stone, to<br/>
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&gt; try to locate another spot from which the 45 degree border would depart<br/>
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&gt; NE from the shoreline, there is nothing to be found. At low watermark,<br/>
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&gt; but yesterday six feet from shore at high tide, immediately east of this<br/>
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&gt; stone, there is a DC maritime navigation sign.  If there was some other<br/>
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&gt; border marker north of this stone from which the DC-MD border starts out<br/>
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&gt; heading NE, this sign would have to be in Maryland.  Though the marker<br/>
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&gt; has a triangle on top, it doesn&#39;t mention all three entities, meaning to<br/>
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&gt; me that the triangle has no significance.  There are no markings on the<br/>
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&gt; sides of the stone itself.<br/>
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&gt; I&#39;ll keep you posted.<br/>
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&gt; Regards<br/>
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&gt; LN </span></blockquote></div>