District of Columbia Boundary Stones Project

The D.C. Daughters of the American Revolution have initiated yet another project associated with the District of Columbia boundary stones. Some readers will recall that more than 20 years ago an idea spawned in ACSM to obtain geodetic positions on the 40 boundary stones along the District’s original boundary lines. Although never fully completed, a group of surveyors representing NSPS, VAS, MSS, and DCALS worked on that project for several years with the aim of “blue-booking” those positions in the NGS database. In  2012, a group of volunteers from a variety of organizations set out to restore/replace the wrought iron fences that were initially erected to protect the stones. Now the local DAR chapter is seeking to restore the 40 boundary stones. Read more:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/stones-laid-by-benjamin-banneker-in-the-1790s-are-still-standing/2015/05/30/11c39d04-0007-11e5-833c-a2de05b6b2a4_story.html