Massachusetts - Connecticut Boundary Disk - Route 187
Posted by: neoc1
N 42° 02.164 W 072° 41.160
18T E 691537 N 4656371
Boundary disk at the Connecticut-Massachusetts line along Route 187
Waymark Code: WMD5Q7
Location: Connecticut, United States
Date Posted: 11/22/2011
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The border between Connecticut and Massachusetts has a disputed history. Land was claimed by both Massachusetts and Connecticut and at times towns along the border belonged to each state. A boundary survey was conducted in 1803 which resulted in a resolution of the border dispute in 1804; when the current boundary was established through a compromise between Connecticut and Massachusetts.
In 1899 it was concluded, in a report to the Massachusetts Legislature, that the boundary west of the Connecticut River was in especially unsatisfactory condition and the whole line needed to be re-surveyed. In 1905 the legislatures of Massachusetts and Connecticut appropriated $7,000 to reestablish the boundary. On Route 187, the Suffield, Connecticut - Agawam, Massachusetts crossing is marked with a survey disk set in concrete. It has the inscription:
STATE LINE BOUND - MASS 110 CONN