Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] nysw and pane report<br/>
Date: Dec 09, 2001 @ 02:28<br/>
Author: David Mark (David Mark &lt;dmark@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-459651504">On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, PitHokie wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; First I tried to locate land PAne--I didn&#39;t have a<br/>
&gt; boat and GPS to go out to the middle of Lake Erie but<br/>
&gt; thought I&#39;d at least find something on-shore to<br/>
&gt; indicate this point.  Instead, I walked from the<br/>
&gt; border on PA 5/NY 5 toward the lake, straddling a farm<br/>
&gt; in PA and a trailer park in NY, where I found a huge<br/>
&gt; marker about halfway between the road and the water.<br/>
&gt; The marker, which looked like a gravestone, was hard<br/>
&gt; to make out but indicated this was &quot;territory ceeded<br/>
&gt; to Pennsylvania&quot; from New York--as the northern state<br/>
&gt; line used to be completely straight from the Delaware<br/>
&gt; River west to the Great Lakes.  Oddly enough, the<br/>
&gt; other side of the marker said it represented the<br/>
&gt; &quot;western end of Lake Ontario&quot; in New York.  Did Lake<br/>
&gt; Erie used to be called Lake Ontario?  If so, what did<br/>
&gt; Ontario used to be called?<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>The western boundary of NY State is indeed fixed at the meridian or<br/>
longitude line that runs through the western end of current Lake Ontario<br/>
(near Hamilton, Ontario). I have not read why that was chosen. Look at a<br/>
map, go straight south from Hamilton, across land in Ontario and then<br/>
across Lake Erie, and it lines up with the western boundary of NY.<br/>
<br/>
David</div>