I don't know how I stumbled onto this article, but I found it to be interesting
enough to post it here. The website has a photo section that shows pictures of
the original monuments that were set around the District of Columbia. The portion
of lands that were taken from Virginia were returned in 1846-47 which is interesting
all by itself. In any event, it is an unusual boundary survey.
If there are surveyors that have had personal experience over the years in regards
to this stones I would be interested in hearing about it.
http://www.boundarystones.org/
Another interesting thing is that Federal Law applies in DC, in ways it does not in the STATES. It's not well publicized though.
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I used that website to find a boundary stone in a Baptist Church parking lot in Alexandria, VA.
Pretty cool.
> I don't know how I stumbled onto this article, but I found it to be interesting
> enough to post it here. The website has a photo section that shows pictures of
> the original monuments that were set around the District of Columbia. The portion
> of lands that were taken from Virginia were returned in 1846-47 which is interesting
> all by itself. In any event, it is an unusual boundary survey.
>
> If there are surveyors that have had personal experience over the years in regards
> to this stones I would be interested in hearing about it.
>
>> http://www.boundarystones.org/br >
Yeah... but how do they fit?
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Yeah... but how do they fit?
That was what I was hoping someone who had actually measured between some of these
could tell me. With today's methods it would be interesting to see just how well they
could measure 10 miles.:-)
A lot of them are not in their original position.
Around 20 years ago NGS occupied or tied in many of the DC monuments. I have not checked lately but at one time I think at least temporary values were published somewhere perhaps a DAR or DC surveyors sight. One site had pictures of many of them.
I am not seeing them in the current datasheets for the few I just checked. They probably predated some of the recent adjustments and may no longer be in the active database. I got the impression that perhaps the project was never really finished. Dave Doyle would probably know if he is still lurking around. They went full NGS specs on the observations done at the time from what I remember. Where GPS could not occupy the points they were tied in from GPS'able points. Not sure if the ties were bluebooked and published.
- jerry
PS been curious myself how they look. I got the impression that Ellicott started out at the south end and ran a forward bearing N45W. If so the north end wouldn't come out to be north of the south end, etc. Not sure where I got that information.