FF0487 - Front Street - Memphis, TN
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N 35° 08.744 W 090° 03.299
15S E 768300 N 3893175
Located on front Street between the old Courthouse-Custom House-Post Office Building and the Goodwyn Institute Library, between Monroe and Madison Ave, Memphis, TN
Waymark Code: WMT69X
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 10/02/2016
Views: 5
Located in a column on the SE corner of the parking lot next to the old Court House – Custom Hose and Post Office on Front Street. When walking north on the west side of Front Street from Monroe Ave. Pass the Goodwyn Institute Library, the post with the nail will be on the west side of the side walk before you reach the Court House parking lot. The letters US are still visible on the washer.
Documented History (by the NGS)
Unknown by DOD (MONUMENTED)
01/01/1974 by NGS (GOOD)
DESCRIBED BY NATIONAL GEODETIC SURVEY 1974 AT MEMPHIS. AT MEMPHIS, AT THE INTERSECTION OF NORTH FRONT STREET AND MADISON AVENUE, 183.5 FEET SOUTH OF THE EXTENDED CENTER LINE OF MADISON AVENUE LEADING EAST, 16.5 FEET WEST OF THE WEST CURB OF SOUTH FRONT STREET, 50 FEET SOUTHEAST OF THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF COURTHOUSE-CUSTOM HOUSE-POST OFFICE BUILDING, 46.5 FEET WEST OF THE CENTER LINE OF SOUTH FRONT STREET, A SMALL COPPER NAIL AND WASHER SET VERTICALLY IN THE SOUTH FACE OF A STONE CORNER POST, PROJECTING 6 1/2 FEET, BETWEEN THE POST OFFICE AND COSSITT-GOODWYN INSTITUTE LIBRARY, 2.8 FEET ABOVE GROUND. NOTE-- THE BASE OF STONE POST IS CRACKED.
Condition: Mark found in poor condition
Designation: 269.99
Benchmark Agency: other (not included below)
Benchmark Agency (if other): DOD
Monumentation type: other (not any of the below)
Monumentation type (if other): Nail
County: Shelby
USGS 7.5' Topographic Quadrangle Name (optional): Memphis
Find type: Coordinates and/or to-reach information from the NGS database (or Geocaching's copy of it) were used
Web address of this benchmark's datasheet (optional): [Web Link]
NGS PID: FF0487
Special category (optional): Not listed
Special Category (if other): Not listed
Local database's URL (optional): Not listed
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