I wonder if anyonw at the ASPLS can tell us whether the yellow rock in
the ALGATN pincushion is the orginal (1818?) marker.

BJB
--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "acroorca2002 <orc@o...>"
<orc@o...> wrote:

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