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Modest Monuments: The District of Columbia Boundary Stones

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Patrick McGranaghan
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http://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2017/05/modest-monuments-the-district-of-columbia-boundary-stones/?loclr=twmap&apos ;">The Library of Congress has a detailed blog post on the boundary stones around DC. Some nice images too!


 
Posted : May 17, 2017 7:18 pm
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Many many moons ago, the old POB magazine had a good article about restoration by area Surveyors.

It may be available through their archives but this was way before digital and internet presence.


 
Posted : May 17, 2017 7:38 pm
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I have visited a couple of those in Alexandria. That part of the D.C. boundary is now defunct since the portion in Northern Virginia was reconveyed back to VA in the 1840s.


 
Posted : May 17, 2017 7:48 pm
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I posted this website a couple of years ago, but it also has a lot of info about that boundary.

http://www.boundarystones.org/


 
Posted : May 18, 2017 8:08 am
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Wonder why the eastern and western corners don't appear to have been monumented?


 
Posted : May 18, 2017 2:51 pm

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imaudigger, post: 428980, member: 7286 wrote: Wonder why the eastern and western corners don't appear to have been monumented?

Is that another Masonic Secret?


 
Posted : May 20, 2017 6:34 pm
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Thanks for posting


 
Posted : May 21, 2017 1:20 pm