Modest Monuments: The District of Columbia Boundary Stones
Posted by: Tim St. Onge
The oldest set of federally placed monuments in the United States are strewn along busy streets, hidden in dense forests, lying unassumingly in residential front yards and church parking lots. Many are fortified by small iron fences, and one resides in the sea wall of a Potomac River lighthouse. Lining the current and former boundaries …
Posted in: Borders, City Histories