what is the oldest monument you've found / collected?
mine was northern Manitoba it was done in 1951.?ÿ?ÿ
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Wood Post Section Corner set in 1854 or 1855, found mound of stones w/ [dead] Bearing Tree.
Loyal
Mine was an accessory to a silver mining claim corner that was originally staked out in 1876. The accessory was MUCH older than that though, possibly by a 1,000 years or more.
Mine was "Ellicott's Rock"?ÿ on the banks of the Chattooga River as the corner of Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina.?ÿ The date carved in the rock was 1812.
Andy
Not quite what you're asking, but I've seen the Mason and Dixon "star gazer's stone" which was set in 1764 as the azimuth mark for their observations prior to running the line.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Gazers%27_Stone
found corner accessory marked in 1790's, search this board as there was a couple of similar threads years ago
"The Great Rock". The rock itself has been there for around 15,000 years since the receding glaciers dropped in there. It was first mapped as part of the Beekman Patent sometime in the early 1700's.?ÿ
A number of 1879 monuments, I'm thinking the farthest one to the east would be the oldest.
"The Great Rock".
I suppose this rock:
https://books.google.com/books?id=dkg9AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA165#v=onepage
Quite a few stones set in 1865-1866.?ÿ The only thing older around here would be original standard parallel monuments and Indian treaty boundary monuments.?ÿ Not certain I have ever recovered an original of either variety.
Technically speaking, in a few cases a billion year old bedrock was used for a good place to chisel an "X" in 1865.
Besides LWP Section Corners and Bearing Trees, VISTA BUENA 2 1870, Cross in Granite Post set at base of bluff at Capt. Ware's widow's house.
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1870s era stones found while at work.
ive visited District of Columbia boundary stones in Alexandria, those are early 19th century I think.
Station "Hawe's Hill," copper bolt set in ledge by Simeon Borden or one of his crews, 1832. NGS PID MZ1504. The data sheet says monumented by the US Survey of the Coast, but that is incorrect; it was monumented as part of the Borden survey.
While others had 'found' it well before my time; since it was the "first" one set, it is the oldest monument (1870) in Oklahoma I have laid my hands on.
Does anybody recognize our old friend in the photo?
"Muzzy Dam" was called for as a corner in a deed. When I found the dam, it was only half built out of field stones. One of the locals told me that the dam was half built when the owner/builder went off to war and never completed the project. I checked in "History of the Town of Hubbardston" by John Murdock Stowe and found that William Muzzy moved there in 1773, and died in 1830 at the age of 97. He only begat daughters, and the name Muzzy dropped out of the town records as they married off. I'm guessing the dam was built just prior to the War for Independence, as he would have been 79 years old at the start of the War of 1812, and not likely to have gone off to fight.
Survey I was doing for school districts up in Dunstable and Groton. MA (can't remember exactly which school it was) around 1987-88.?ÿ Can't recall the name of the survey that I was retracing, but he had a habit of chiseling the first letter of his last name 'B' on the stone wall and put a drill hole in the center of the lower portion of the 'B'.?ÿ I seem to recall it was set in the latter part of the 1790's.?ÿ It was a very cool find.
This is by far my oldest. From the Penna Canal ~1830. Also found some original stones from 1947 in my hometown can't find the pics though.