1. Hancok, MD
    Has anybody ever been to Hancock? This narrow part of Maryland. http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=17&n=4399157&e=743265 Jesper
    Jun 08, 2003 @ 16:09 - Jesper Nielsen ("Jesper Nielsen" <jesniel@...>)
  2. Re: Hancok, MD
    yes many of us have as it is on a major corridor but what do you want to know ... http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=17&n=4399157&e=74326 5
    Jun 08, 2003 @ 16:15 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  3. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Hancok, MD
    Not much really. I saw just this curiosity on a large scale map. Jesper ... From: acroorca2002 To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003
    Jun 08, 2003 @ 16:17 - Jesper Nielsen ("Jesper Nielsen" <jesniel@...>)
  4. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Hancok, MD
    Yes, I drive through Hancock quite regularly. Hancock is a fun destination for roadgeeks as well (of whom I am one) because it s the location of one of the
    Jun 08, 2003 @ 18:01 - Brendan (Brendan <pit.hokie@...>)
  5. Re: Hancok, MD
    ... destination ... location of one ... segments in the ... for the very shortest such consider http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=13&n=4041216&e=67516 8&s=25
    Jun 08, 2003 @ 18:46 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  6. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Hancok, MD
    Great find, Michael! Although further viewing leads me to believe that this road remains in New Mexico the whole time. Not to get too off-topic, but US 340,
    Jun 08, 2003 @ 19:47 - Brendan (Brendan <pit.hokie@...>)
  7. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Hancok, MD
    There is a similar international example on EERU. See attachment. It will be visit during GBBE. But I love also the other part of the border. Jesper ... From:
    Jun 08, 2003 @ 20:04 - Jesper Nielsen ("Jesper Nielsen" <jesniel@image.dk>)
  8. Re: Hancok, MD
    not receiving this attachment nor the first one in 10391 some others of yours have been slow too but finally arrived maybe just my old mac ... attachment. ...
    Jun 08, 2003 @ 20:21 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  9. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Hancok, MD
    Well. I see in in my own Inbox. Try http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/10396 Jesper ... From: acroorca2002 To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
    Jun 08, 2003 @ 20:26 - Jesper Nielsen ("Jesper Nielsen" <jesniel@...>)
  10. Re: Hancok, MD
    ... believe that ... thanx brendan http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?t=2&s=11&x=1688& y=10102&z=13&w=1 makes it appear we have a real winner here but
    Jun 08, 2003 @ 20:52 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  11. RE: [BoundaryPoint] Hancok, MD
    A very interesting what-if regarding this narrow neck of MD: Before Mason and Dixon set out on their survey, Lord Baltimore s representatives believed the
    Jun 08, 2003 @ 21:58 - Flynn, Kevin ("Flynn, Kevin" <flynnk@...>)
  12. Re: Hancok, MD
    ... Baltimore s ... farther north. ... Street in ... you probably do recall correctly as it was to be 15 miles south of the southernmost point of philadelphia
    Jun 08, 2003 @ 23:02 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  13. RE: [BoundaryPoint] Re: NW corner TX panhandle
    On this NAD83, 1:6000 Topozone map it appears that the marker is off the pavement, but within the road right of way. As I recall the Clark Monument was near
    Jun 09, 2003 @ 01:43 - jparsell ("jparsell" <jparsell@...>)
  14. RE: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Hancok, MD
    Correction, Brendan. US 340 runs from MD into VA and then into WV. Same result though, a very short stretch in VA. Jack ... From: Brendan
    Jun 09, 2003 @ 01:56 - jparsell ("jparsell" <jparsell@...>)
  15. RE: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Hancok, MD
    Jack, Thanks for the Texas panhandle info. My description of US 340 below is coming from the west, where the road goes from VA to WV to VA again before
    Jun 09, 2003 @ 01:59 - Brendan (Brendan <pit.hokie@adelphia.net>)
  16. RE: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Hancok, MD
    ... My error, it wasn t Spruce bur rather South Street, then known as Cedar Street (and I used to live in Philly, no lessl shoulda known better). Anyway, prior
    Jun 09, 2003 @ 02:52 - Flynn, Kevin ("Flynn, Kevin" <flynnk@...>)
  17. Re: NW corner TX panhandle
    the photo linked in message 10400 makes the corner of texas seem to cross the road entirely & it is hard for me to doubt the reality & relative accuracy of the
    Jun 09, 2003 @ 06:18 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  18. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Hancok, MD
    Gee, and I used to think that I-684 s quick trip into Connecticut was special. http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4550217&e=607578&s=50 Asher Samuels
    Jun 09, 2003 @ 06:33 - Asher Samuels (Asher Samuels <asher972@...>)
  19. shortest interstate transit was Re: Hancok, MD
    well this flash dash of interstate 684 across connecticut may be the shortest such interstate highway interstate transit in america & for the first decades of
    Jun 09, 2003 @ 15:50 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  20. Re: [BoundaryPoint] shortest interstate transit was Re: Hancok, MD
    I ll be in New York June 22nd to July 2nd. Saturday the 28th is out, but any other day is good for me. ... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!?
    Jun 09, 2003 @ 19:21 - Asher Samuels (Asher Samuels <asher972@...>)
  21. shortest interstate transit was Re: Hancok, MD
    fantastic thanx any of those days are fine with me & i would gladly defer first choice of them all to arif arif are you listening &or secondarily to any others
    Jun 09, 2003 @ 20:13 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  22. Re: Hancok, MD
    thanx kevin sounds like a book many of us will enjoy after some searching i believe i have found the location you mentioned on south street & will look for a
    Jun 10, 2003 @ 00:17 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  23. Re: [BoundaryPoint] shortest interstate transit was Re: Hancok, MD
    Michael et al., Sorry about the confusion re: US 340. There *is* only one crossing in the MD-VA-WV tripoint area - the other is some ways west near Gaylord,
    Jun 10, 2003 @ 01:54 - Brendan (Brendan <pit.hokie@...>)
  24. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Hancok, MD
    I ve been on that short stretch of US 340 in Virginia. There s a gas station between the Potomac River bridge, where the road crosses from MD to VA, and the WV
    Jun 17, 2003 @ 02:03 - Tom Sanders (Tom Sanders <hilversum96@...>)
  25. mdvawv & Re: Hancok, MD
    tom when did you visit the mdvawv area & did you find any tristate marker there i ask because many of us have sought this presumably unmonumented & usually
    Jun 17, 2003 @ 13:16 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  26. re mdvawv
    a 1997 survey marked 30 points along northernmost vawv specifically between loudon county va & jefferson county wv with copper plates set in cement monuments
    Jun 17, 2003 @ 19:14 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  27. Re: [BoundaryPoint] mdvawv & Re: Hancock MD
    acroorca2002 wrote: tom when did you visit the mdvawv area & did you find any tristate marker there i ask because many of us have sought this
    Jun 18, 2003 @ 01:25 - Tom Sanders (Tom Sanders <hilversum96@...>)
  28. mdvawv & Re: Hancock MD
    ... Ferry National Monument in WV. I knew that I would briefly enter VA after crossing the US 340 bridge, and that three states met nearby. At the time, I had
    Jun 18, 2003 @ 13:51 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  29. Re: re mdvawv
    just spoke with kevin vaughn the surveyor of vawv down to mdvawv in 1997 & writer of the account of it in the link below & he told me the terminal marker is
    Jun 18, 2003 @ 15:55 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  30. re mason dixon preliminary points
    please see below for an addition to the following excerpts from message 10452 about how mason & dixon got to their mdpa starting point the ref is to a book by
    Oct 29, 2003 @ 19:01 - m06079 ("m06079" <barbaria_longa@...>)
  31. RE: [BoundaryPoint] re mason dixon preliminary points
    I got my copy of the book through Amazon ... From: m06079 [mailto:barbaria_longa@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 12:01 PM To:
    Oct 29, 2003 @ 19:08 - Flynn, Kevin ("Flynn, Kevin" <flynnk@...>)
  32. RE: [BoundaryPoint] re mason dixon preliminary points
    As I recall, you re correct that the Post Mark d West is *not* to same as PADEMD. It was a reference point that established the latitude for the west line. The
    Oct 29, 2003 @ 19:14 - Flynn, Kevin ("Flynn, Kevin" <flynnk@...>)
  33. Re: re mason dixon preliminary points
    yes thanx & upon further study of the data for the 2nd preliminary point or stargazers stone being 15 miles due north of the 3rd preliminary point or post
    Oct 29, 2003 @ 19:45 - m06079 ("m06079" <barbaria_longa@...>)
  34. Re: re mason dixon preliminary points
    ... & there is more to this story than meets the eye too the depa arc as it exists today is actually 2 different arcs with 2 slightly different centers & 2
    Oct 30, 2003 @ 01:58 - m06079 ("m06079" <barbaria_longa@...>)
  35. Re: [BoundaryPoint] re mason dixon preliminary points
    ... Not a book by Mark Monmonier by the same title? :P -- Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/
    Oct 30, 2003 @ 05:08 - Anton Sherwood (Anton Sherwood <bronto@...>)
  36. Re: re mason dixon preliminary points
    The bottom photo on this page shows the paleotrifinium: http://www.bjbsoftware.com/corners/pointdetail.php3?point=24 BJB ... same as ... the west ... *not* ...
    Oct 30, 2003 @ 16:50 - bjbutlerus ("bjbutlerus" <bjbutler@...>)
  37. Re: re mason dixon preliminary points
    good stuff tho as previously mentioned the depa arc is actually 2 different arcs & the prismatic stone within the dupont compound or what you are calling the
    Oct 30, 2003 @ 18:23 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  38. RE: [BoundaryPoint] Re: re mason dixon preliminary points
    I had thought that the original Post Mark d West was not only in place, but was publicly accessible and marked on some maps. I will try to dig up the forum in
    Oct 30, 2003 @ 18:37 - Flynn, Kevin ("Flynn, Kevin" <flynnk@...>)
  39. Re: re mason dixon preliminary points
    thanx please do in the meantime by measurement i get a position approximately at the junction of fox den road & delaware state highway 72 just northeast of
    Oct 30, 2003 @ 18:50 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  40. Re: re mason dixon preliminary points
    Thanks for reminding me, Mike. Some day I really will correct the text :) BJB
    Oct 30, 2003 @ 22:55 - bjbutlerus ("bjbutlerus" <bjbutler@...>)
  41. Re: re mason dixon preliminary points
    thanx & message 644 is full of relevant stuff about this for your & kevins info too
    Oct 31, 2003 @ 01:07 - m06079 ("m06079" <barbaria_longa@...>)
  42. Re: re mason dixon preliminary points
    oops topozone has been cranky lately so here is the same point shown by terraserver where the 2 sweeps of the depa arc mentioned in message 644 imperceptibly
    Oct 31, 2003 @ 01:52 - m06079 ("m06079" <barbaria_longa@...>)
  43. RE: [BoundaryPoint] Re: re mason dixon preliminary points
    What is the history on multiple arc designations? I always though there was only the single 12-mile radius arc from the old courthouse cupola in New Castle (to
    Oct 31, 2003 @ 02:33 - Flynn, Kevin ("Flynn, Kevin" <flynnk@...>)
  44. Re: re mason dixon preliminary points
    it is very complex there is more in message 614 but i have since ascertained that owing to all the various & accumulated historical reasons dating from the
    Oct 31, 2003 @ 16:45 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  45. Re: NW corner TX panhandle
    in case you dont want to wade thru the following message 10429 i am happy to confirm from visual examination of the fence lines that the northwest corner of
    Nov 16, 2003 @ 19:37 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  46. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: NW corner TX panhandle
    I visited TXnw some years ago, and I m in perfect agreement with your assessment of its location in relation to the highway. I was puzzled to find nothing even
    Nov 16, 2003 @ 20:38 - Lowell G. McManus ("Lowell G. McManus" <mcmanus71496@...>)
  47. Re: NW corner TX panhandle
    Mike and I, and my brother Gregg, are old hands at probing for buried monuments with wires, having poked the turtle at MANHVT, which we marked with a driftwood
    Nov 17, 2003 @ 00:43 - bjbutlerus ("bjbutlerus" <bjbutler@...>)
  48. Re: NW corner TX panhandle
    Yahoo is being pedantic about URL s, so here is the link again, this time with the protocol specifier:
    Nov 17, 2003 @ 00:46 - bjbutlerus ("bjbutlerus" <bjbutler@...>)
  49. Re: NW corner TX panhandle
    yes that was one of our finest happy hours mate & i congratulate you for httping the url too & wish all our informants would emulate you in this & a rare pic
    Nov 17, 2003 @ 17:22 - m06079 ("m06079" <barbaria_longa@...>)