recently it has been dawning on me that the town i am currently living in
namely cornwall connecticut
is a party to 2 of the oldest quadripoints in existence
a wet one dating from 1741 & a dry one dating from 1758
both very possibly the oldest of their kinds in the world
or at least i have not been able to find any older ones than these
& would certainly appreciate learning of any you may know of
both of these quadrimunicipal or quadriquaternary points can be seen on the
single map
http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4640581&e=636015&s=200&symshow=n
wherein the towns of canaan cornwall salisbury & sharon meet to form the wet
usct4cacosash
in the housatonic river just left of center
& the towns of canaan cornwall goshen & norfolk meet at the dry
usct4cacogono
as depicted by the intersecting survey lines just right of center
oddly enough i myself have lived in all 6 of the towns comprising these 2
points
at some time in the past 19 years without suspecting their unusual
distinction
& have actually posted to bp from all 6 of them too
i even canoed unwittingly right thru cacosash many years ago
but revisited it deliberately this spring with a camera
as reported in message 6125 in more detail than you could ever wish to have
but i only just developed the film today
so you can see what i was talking so much about then in the first attachment
now
cacogono i first discovered with great excitement about 4 or 5 years ago
on one of those blissful cameraless forays
which somehow almost always produce the best of adventures
but i was inspired to return there today with a camera
both to finish up that old roll of film & to document my incredible find
the original visit to cacogono was made by dead reckoning without gps & only
a hand drawn map
by scrambling up the steep hill from the west along the best guessed caco
line
& todays retry from the south & east was just as venturesome & difficult
tho i had a black & white topozone print
in fact i got hopelessly lost & gave up fairly exhausted
& only then on my way out did i chance upon the gono line
which tho poorly blazed was at last sufficient to make the point
the monument is very likely comprised of the original 1758 cairn & pillar or
crude obelisk
with the quadrijunction actually depicted on a flat stone lying haphazardly
at the base of the pillar
very much in the simple style of the colonial period which i have observed
elsewhere
with the letters c c g & n for the 4 towns engraved into each respective
quadrant
tho you can probably see only the letter n & perhaps a single c in the
attached photos
in the quadrants nearest the pillar
i took the liberty of rotating the flat rock a few degrees to correct its
alignment
with the help of the sun
then taped over the engraved line intersection since i knew it wouldnt be
visible without this help
the pipestem is of course a much newer addition
so now you basically have a choice of 3 very loose & wobbly & crooked
indicators to choose from
but i would like to believe the loosest is at the same time the most exact
since its centerpoint also sits at this time directly under the tip of the
leaning obelisk
thanx to my adjustment
i thought of bringing it home with me as a souvenir
but fortunately was too tired
m
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