- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)
- 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@...>)