BOUNDARY MON INITIAL DE MD

Recovered in Good Condition on August 31, 2003

Spatial/elevation data

Coordinates	N 38.451252° W 75.054948°
Elevation	10 ft.
Location	Delaware Sussex County Assawoman Bay Quad

Mark description

Type	Reference Mark Disk
Setting	Concrete Post
Monumented	1932 by NGS
Description (NGS)	NGS Datasheet

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Narrative and photographs

For more information about this reference mark, see its parent mark FENWICK ISLAND.

This reference mark disk was found in good condition as described, atop the Transpeninsular Line monument stone just south of the Fenwick Island Lighthouse. The 252 year old monument is part of a line that was surveyed to settle a boundary dispute between the Penns and the Calverts, and which established the middle point of the peninsula. The historic description was adequate to locate the mark, but the following changes should be noted: State Road 14 is now State Highway 1, and the sand road is now paved and is labeled 146th Street.

NGS Reference Mark Disk BOUNDARY MON INITIAL DE MD

The north side of the stone bears the Penns’ coat of arms …

The south side of the stone bears the coat of arms of the Calverts.

Zhanna stands by the monument on a rainy Sunday morning.