Your junior border adventurer here with a brief report
in my trip to PAne and NYsw on Thursday. I went up to
Niagara Falls to play at the casino and on the way
back decided to look for these two corners.
First I tried to locate land PAne--I didn't have a
boat and GPS to go out to the middle of Lake Erie but
thought I'd at least find something on-shore to
indicate this point. Instead, I walked from the
border on PA 5/NY 5 toward the lake, straddling a farm
in PA and a trailer park in NY, where I found a huge
marker about halfway between the road and the water.
The marker, which looked like a gravestone, was hard
to make out but indicated this was "territory ceeded
to Pennsylvania" from New York--as the northern state
line used to be completely straight from the Delaware
River west to the Great Lakes. Oddly enough, the
other side of the marker said it represented the
"western end of Lake Ontario" in New York. Did Lake
Erie used to be called Lake Ontario? If so, what did
Ontario used to be called?
Unforntunately I couldn't find any more markers
between this one and the lake. I found a worn, shapen
stone on the rocky shore with rubar in it indicating
it may have once been the border marker, but it was
completely worn and unattached so there was no way to
tell.
Does anyone who's ever been here know if any marking
exists? I took a picture of the basic spot but a
weird drainage creek which curves right at the line
made it difficult to pinpoint the spot.
After this visit, I drove a bit into New York to find
NYsw. I ended up going to the long way around, but
once in NY I found a "Stateline Rd." and just followed
this until I found the marker. Although the line
doesn't exactly straddle the road, it comes pretty
close. I could tell as soon as I saw a PA sign on the
NY side of the road that the point was near. Right
next to the road is a small creek, and just over that
was the typical small concrete marker with "PA" on one
side and "NY" on the other, with a cross on top. I
wonder why this type is used when it doesn't
accurately reflect one corner, but implies four. The
"N" of NY on the marker is technically in PA anyway!
Well if anyone is interested, I'll post pictures when
I get them back Tuesday or Wednesday.
Brendan
Pittsburgh, PA USA
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