FORT MOTT NATL CEMETERY MONUMENT (JU3765) - Salem County, NJ
Posted by: Ernmark
N 39° 36.702 W 075° 33.365
18S E 452265 N 4384808
This monument, erected in memory of the 2,436 confederate prisoners who died at Fort Delaware, also serves as a benchmark in the database of the National Geodetic Survey.
Waymark Code: WMJFHW
Location: New Jersey, United States
Date Posted: 11/11/2013
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This monument - an intersection station - is located in Finn's Point National Cemetery, which can be reached via Fort Mott State Park.
Details from the NGS database are as follows:
1/1/1933 by CGS (FIRST OBSERVED)
DESCRIBED BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1933 (GLA) THIS STATION IS THE TIP OF THE STONE MONUMENT NEAR THE NW CORNER OF THE NATIONAL CEMETERY AT FORT MOTT. THE MONUMENT IS ON A DIRT MOUND ABOUT 6 FEET HIGH. THE STONE FOUNDATION OF THE MONUMENT IS ABOUT 20 FEET SQUARE. THE MONUMENT IS SQUARE AND IS CONSTRUCTED OF ROUGH CUT STONE. EACH STONE IS ABOUT 10 INCHES THICK BUT DECREASING IN WIDTH FROM BOTTOM TO TOP GIVING THE MONUMENT ABOUT 6 INCHES BATTER. THE TOP STONE IS POINTED AT THE TOP. THE MONUMENT IS ABOUT 40 FEET HIGH.
1/1/1975 by NGS (GOOD)
RECOVERY NOTE BY NATIONAL GEODETIC SURVEY 1975 (RST) THE STATION WAS RECOVERED IN GOOD CONDITION. THE ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION IS ADEQUATE FOR FUTURE RECOVERY.
1/1/1983 by USPSQD (GOOD)
RECOVERY NOTE BY US POWER SQUADRON 1983 (JLM) MONUMENT IS AS DESCRIBED.
4/25/1998 by USPSQD (GOOD)
RECOVERY NOTE BY US POWER SQUADRON 1998 RECOVERED IN GOOD CONDITION.