Have you ever found one of these old survey markers

[Mark75H]

One of the actual Mason Dixon crown stones

 

[RFBfromDE]

Wait a minute…

The government used to do interesting and needful things?

 

[Mark75H]

Ooops, I absent mindedly used the crown stone as a table to hold something (just momentarily)
I didn't realize I had done that until I went back and watched my video. I could hardly believe I had done that, but I had.

 

[jmiller320]

I did land surveying for 20 years. Many in the field. My skill set included reading old monument descriptions for recovery. It was a blast trying to match the old directions to modern topology. Would read like:
From the Post Office in Poolsvile go north along md rt 28 2.3 miles to dim tract road on right. Hence along dim track road 0.73 miles to top of hill. Station located 300' n nw.
ha ha - Good luck.

Once you see them you will see them everywhere!

I always liked the property corner description, "The bound Oak Tree"

 

[BurtonRW]

All the time. In fact, I’ve seen so many of them (many still shiny brass) that I guess I didn’t realize they were “old”. Lol.

-Rob

 

[28Shooter]

Maryland Society of Surveyors actually set a replacement Crown Stone not too many years ago. I was at the ceremony.

 

[fogman]

I found one last year just off the Appalachian Trail in Virginia while following an old side trail to pick up a supply drop.

Also found one while at Mt Rushmore.

National Parks sell reproduction benchmarks as keychains and magnets. We collect the keychains and use them for Christmas ornaments.

 

[owldo]

U.S. "Point of Beginning" FYI ... ICYDK ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_beginning

 

[28Shooter]

U.S. "Point of Beginning" FYI ... ICYDK ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_beginning

Now that is really cool!

 

[ShOrebird]

National Geodetic Survey Data Explorer

www.ngs.noaa.gov

Here's a handy-dandy map to search for the markers.