MD: Fate of the markers

[Paul Mackin]

Reminds me of that expedition that Rich, Chris, davemarc, Ruth, Henry,
Susan and I set off on to find the marker near New Arc (of the
Covenant) Delaware. We couldn't find it. A short time later I with some
non-p-listers drove over to the SW corner of Delaware (with Maryland on
two sides).  Three M and D markers are located there in a barred
enclosure. The largest I assume is the one that actually belongs there at
the so called mid point of the peninsula  as it was styled in
the original grant. The appropriate family crests (Calvert or Penn) are 
affixed to the respective side of the marker and are still fairly
discenable. The smaller markers enclosed in the cage  must have been
brought there from elsewhere for safekeeping. There is no highway
department marking whatsoever to indicate to the modern traveller what
these ancient objects are. I have a nice black and white photo of the
three if anyone would like to see it. (nice after much laborious work in
the darkroom)


				P.

On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Michael Baum wrote:

> I just thought I might mention for the history fans amoung us that on October 14 the _News Journal_ (Wilmington.Del.) ran an interesting piece on the front page on the fate of the original Mason and Dixon line markers. Or at least those on the Delaware border. J.L. Miller of the paper's Dover bureau based most of the article on a guided tour of the Line conducted by a Mr. Roger Nathan.
> 
> An accompanying graphic showing the entire Line is a tad out in that it shows the line extending all the way to western Pennsylvania border, but the article has some interesting tidbits. Such as that Boundary Arc Stone 1 is buried 6 feet down under a specially constructed manhole in the middle of the road near Pat's Discount Liqours (a local landmark.) Or that one stone was defaced ages ago by a Delaware partisan trying to convert the Pennsylvania "P" on one face of the marker into a "D".
> 
> No mention, oddly, of the markers as a focus and pathway for Telluric Energies.
> 
> Alackaday, although the News Journal is sufficiently with it to have a web site (www.delawareonline.com), there seems to be no search mechanism for finding past-date articles.
> 
> -- maab, still a delawarean at heart
>