in regards to the link on this post:
>>>http://www.dcdar.org/boundary_stones_loc.htm
how did dc get arlington county, va? on topozone, etc. DC is
exclusively on the northern side of the potomac.
i found this link from va dept of transportation click on map 3
http://www.virginiadot.org/comtravel/maps-state.asp
i remember also learning in school when i was 10 that MD donated the
land for DC, and MD was and still is north of the potomac. so why
does that map show arlington county as part of DC? from all the maps
i see it is VA
--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "acroorca2002" <orc@o...> wrote:
> len i think the only thing that might be problematic here is the
> ignorance & pretentiousness of the writer
> & ultimately his confusion of boundary markers with road signs
>
> for to begin with
> there are in fact at least a couple dozen milestones several feet
> tall all along the dc boundary
>
> these actually produce a far greater frequency of primary
> monumentation than most state boundaries could boast
> contrary to his stated belief
>
> the date of them all is 1792
>
> for their general locations see
> http://www.dcdar.org/boundary_stones_loc.htm
> but note that the nw stones are numbered incorrectly on the map
> tho not on the verbal descriptions of them beneath it
>
> all the numbering sequences actually run clockwise
>
> then you may want to check terraserver or topozone etc for their
> precise positions
> all of which do show up quite clearly on the usgs topos
> if you are interested in any of these
>
> the mentioned wisconsin avenue crossing falls roughly halfway
> between milestones nw6 & nw7
> so no wonder that neither the questioner nor the answerer
> spotted or mentioned these biggies
>
>
> but there are in addition the much lower stones at all major road
> crossings & other prominent points
> of the type such as the questioner at least evidently did observe
>
> however
> being usually less than a foot tall
> these are easy to miss even when you pass right by them
> & the answerer evidently does miss them all the time
> assuming they havent been knocked down by traffic etc
>
> the date of all these low ones is 1903
> per bus&ss 1976
> tho i suppose there could also be some more recent ones
>
>
> & all that stuff about the road signs is of course irrelevant to
the
> topic that both the questioner & answerer began with
> but merely some gratuitous association piled on top of it
>
> however
> just to answer that supposedly still more troubling question too
> as everyone knows
> road signs are often not only unhelpful but even downright
> misleading
> for ordinary navigational purposes
> not to mention trypointing
>
> when that sign was erected
> it may have truly indicated the best way to get thru dc & on to
> richmond
> or it may not have
> but no problem either way
>
>
> incidentally
> but more pointedly
> i just realized there is probably 1 extra dc boundary marker not in
> either of the above categories
> situated at the tripoint with montgomery & prince georges
> counties of md
>
> & of the more obvious tripoints
> dcmdvas is an unmarked wetpoint in the potomac
> & the dcmdvan marker on the right bank has never been found
> if indeed it still exists at all
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "L. A. Nadybal" <lnadybal@c...> wrote:
> > This appeared today in "DCWatch":
> >
> > Boundary Markers
> > David Sobelsohn, dsobelso-at-capaccess-dot-org
> >
> > In last Wednesday's issue of themail, John Cleave asked
> about a DC/MD
> > boundary marker at Wisconsin and Western Avenues, NW.
> Tellingly, he
> > thinks the marker went up before 1928, perhaps much earlier.
> My sense
> > is that, unlike most states, DC has few markers, even on major
> roads,
> > to indicate that a motorist is entering the District (let alone
> signs
> > saying "Welcome to Washington"). A striking example is where
> US-50
> > crosses the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, US-50 becoming
> New York
> > Avenue and the BWP becoming Kenilworth Avenue. The sign
> for New York
> > Ave. says "To Washington." The sign for Kenilworth Ave. says
> "To
> > Richmond" even though a driver taking either route will enter
> DC at
> > pretty much the same time, and even though a driver taking the
> > Kenilworth Ave. route will go clear across both SE and SW DC
> before
> > getting to Virginia (let alone Richmond). Neither route actually
> has a
> > sign indicating that the car has entered DC. I had to study a
> map
> > before realizing that taking Kenilworth Ave. would also get me
> into
> > DC. So my questions to themail subscribers are: where else,
> besides
> > Wisconsin and Western Avenues, NW, are there actual
> boundary markers
> > at the DC/MD border; are any of recent vintage; and are any
> visible to
> > motorists?
> >
> > Another, perhaps more troubling question: why does the sign
> on a road
> > going into SE and SW DC say "To Richmond" but not "To
> Washington"?