163 0210 Border (NHDOT, Franklin/Tilton, NH) - U.S. Benchmarks on Waymarking.com

This station is a bronze disk, set in top of a granite bound, located at a town line corner between Franklin and Tilton, NH. It is in the center of an asphalt sidewalk, and is in line with a 2-ft high granite bound 4.8-ft to the north. It is on Central Street (U. S. Route 3 and NH Route 11), at the junction of a driveway leading north to Hannaford's Supermarket, on the northeast corner.

The boundary here is not just a town line, it is also a county line.

At the disk, the boundary line goes north (in line with the old granite post, as mentioned earlier), and then turns 90 degrees to the east, following the sidewalk for a short length, then turns 90 degrees southward. Which means that while you are walking on the sidewalk between the NAPA Auto Parts store, and the Hannaford driveway, you can actually be in two towns and two counties simultaneously.

A full description is accessible at the NHDOT datasheet link below. Please note that the datasheet is in the Franklin listing.

The mark is suitable for GPS service.

Condition: Mark found in good condition Designation: TOWNLINE CORNER FRANKLIN TILTON Benchmark Agency: other (not included below) Benchmark Agency (if other): Department of Transportation (NH) Monumentation type: Disk (unspecified type) County: Merrimack/Belknap USGS 7.5' Topographic Quadrangle Name (optional): Northfield Find type: Coordinates and/or to-reach information from an online local database were used Web address of this benchmark's datasheet (optional): [Web Link] Local database's URL (optional): [Web Link] Monumentation type (if other): Not listed Special category (optional): Not listed Special Category (if other): Not listed NGS PID: Not listed

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