yeah
awesome
or whether alflga has a marker in the bank of the chattahoochee
like the mud turtle obeliskoid manhvt has deposited in the bank
of the connecticut
or by what legal means & geographic route does the altn
boundary get from almstn to the east shore of pickwick lake
in other words proof that almstn is a tripoint rather than a triline
or
sheesh
lets try the geopositions of alflus & almsus on them too
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "bjbutlerus
<bjbutler@b...>" <bjbutler@b...> wrote:
> 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