Ellicott's Stone - Mobile County, Alabama
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Thorny1
N 30° 59.779 W 088° 01.511
16R E 402123 N 3429645
National boundary between US and Spanish in 1799.
Waymark Code: WM45DC
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 07/09/2008
Views: 88
Ellicott's Stone
Marks 31° North Latitude erected 1799–1½ miles–Stone marked boundary between U.S., Spanish Florida from the Mississippi east to Chattahoochee River. Ellicott, U.S. Surveyor General, did this first Alabama boundary survey. Basis of all South Alabama surveys. His survey defined southern boundary of Mississippi Territory created in 1798
text of marker:
Marks 1st Southern Boundary of United States and the Mississippi Territory created in 1798. 900 feet east.
Stone marked 31* North Latitude seperating the US and Spanish Florida.
this line of demarcation ran from the Mississippi east, along the 31* parallel to the Chattahoochee River, thence down that river to the mouth of the Flint River, thence on a line to the headwaters of the St Mary's river, thence down that river to the Atlantic Ocean.
Major Andrew Ellicott, appointed by George Washington as U.S. Commissioner to survey the boundary as defined in the Treaty of San Lorenzo (1795), was engaged in this expedition from 1796 to 1800. Esteban Minor was appointed Commissioner on the Spanish side.
In 1803, the Ellicott Stone was selected as the Initial Point to begin the U.S. Public Land Surveys which control land boundaries in Southern Alabama and Mississippi (St Stephens Meridian).
Marker Name: Ellicott's Stone
Marker Type: Rural Roadside
Addtional Information::
located in Ellicott Stone Historical Park established 1917.
Date Dedicated / Placed: 1999
Marker Number: Not Listed
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