AS0241 (J 45) Benchmark Disk - Apalachicola, Franklin County, Florida, USA.
N 29° 43.541 W 084° 58.995
16R E 695064 N 3290092
This Tidal Benchmark PID - AS0241 - Set into the top step of 'Marks Remembrance Monument'. It has the stampings: 15.449 feet/J 45/1934. Located in the mostly undiscovered waterfront Town of Apalachicola, Northern Florida.
Waymark Code: WMXDK7
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 12/31/2017
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AS2041 Benchmark disk - Found by luck, as I was photographing the Ryan Marks Remembrance Monument. Whilst on a Waymarking road-trip, along the Big Bend Scenic Byway, Coastal Trail.
Marks Memorial
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"The monument was placed in the center of downtown Apalachicola in remembrance of Lt. Willoughby Ryan Marks, who commanded Company C of the 61st Infantry, 5th Division, for showing "extraordinary valor" and sacrificing his life in an attempt to save a comrade killed in the Argonne, a World War I battle fought October 12, 1918."
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From The NGS Datasheet:
"TO REACH AS0241 IN APALACHICOLA FROM THE INTERSECTION OF US HIGHWAY 98/MARKET 'STREET AND C STREET, PROCEED SW ON C STREET FOR A HALF BLOCK.
THE AS0241'BENCH MARK IS SET IN THE TOP OF THE CENTER OF THE THIRD CONCRETE STEP 'FROM BOTTOM OF BASE OF THE WILLOUGHBY RYAN MARKS REMEMBRANCE MONUMENT, ON THE SE SIDE OF THE MONUMENT, ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE COURTHOUSE."
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