Subject: ellicott mound found<br/>
Date: Dec 28, 2002 @ 23:07<br/>
Author: acroorca2002 &lt;orc@orcoast.com&gt; (&quot;acroorca2002 &lt;orc@...&gt;&quot; &lt;orc@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-135709576">at last an example has been found of the elusive earthen <br/>
mounds erected in 1799 by andrew ellicott as mile markers from <br/>
the mississippi to the chattahoochee river along the 31st parallel <br/>
as well as from the apalachicola to the st marys river on the <br/>
present flga state line <br/>
to mark the boundary between spain & the usa that existed there <br/>
between 1795 & 1819<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.aspls.org/history/mound.html">http://www.aspls.org/history/mound.html</a><br/>
<br/>
at the same site <br/>
a pic of the only stone marker left on that line by ellicott<br/>
which still serves today to mark the initial point of a major <br/>
meridian in the public land system<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.aspls.org">http://www.aspls.org</a><br/>
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& some more background info on the mounds & the stone<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.aspls.org/history">http://www.aspls.org/history</a><br/>
<br/>
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this little rock btw is the monument mentioned but not pictured in <br/>
message 6526<br/>
which you may recall was a first try at rounding up all the former <br/>
international boundary monuments still standing within the <br/>
united states<br/>
& where there is a link to the picture of the other much taller rock<br/>
a relic on modern latx of the boundary that existed there between <br/>
the republic of texas & the usa between 1835 & 1845<br/>
<br/>
but now that an ellicott mound has been found<br/>
it is clear that such marks are just as monumental as the rocks<br/>
so the claim made in that message that there are only 2 extant <br/>
members of this rare class must be enlarged to include an <br/>
unknown number of the surviving mounds</div>