RANGE MARK 8 IBC 1919
NGS PID: | PD0763 |
Coordinates: | N 44.909148° W 66.994679° |
Location: | Maine
Washington County Eastport Quad |
Elevation: | Unknown |
Type: | Range Marker |
Setting: | Concrete Pyramid |
Monumented: | 1919 |
Monumented By: | International Boundary Commission |
Status: | Recovered |
Condition: | Good as of September 19, 2015 |
- Official Description: NGS Datasheet
This range marker has to be one of the most unusual stations we’ve ever found! Apparently these markers were constructed in pairs to allow for sighting along a line and thereby locating points along the international boundary. We didn’t search for the smaller (front) marker—I’m not even sure if it still exists or where it might be, but I don’t think it’s in the NGS database. After exploring “downtown” Eastport during the morning, we climbed Battery Hill behind the elementary school and walked right up to this station, a huge white pyramid. We took a series of photos of the east-facing side of the pyramid before walking around to the southwest-facing side and realizing that this was the side we should have been documenting! The southwest face is painted red and into the center is embedded a plaque that reads: UNITED STATES — RANGE MARK NO. 8 RANGING INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY COURSE 1-2 — TREATY OF 1908.