[Talk-us-massachusetts] perambulating bounds

[HUB History]

By statute
<https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleVII/Chapter42/Section2>,
the year the stone is located is supposed to be painted on, though I'd be
suspicious of any dates more frequent than every five years.  And for
anything more recent than the 1990s, I'd want to cross reference dates
found with minutes of the town meeting confirming that there was a
perambulation that year.  Some towns do still perambulate their bounds, but
not many.

"The boundary markers of every town shall be located, the marks thereon
renewed, and the year located marked upon the face thereof... The marking
shall be made with a paint or other suitable marking material."

Hope you all enjoy the show, and I'm glad I found a community that can nerd
out on town lines as much as I do.

Jake

On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 9:28 AM, Jim Snyder-Grant <jim.snyder.grant at gmail.com
> wrote:

> All the Acton corner stones I've seen have had some years painted on. (I
> used to think it was high school graffiti). Fun idea to mark them in osm.
> Shall we include the years?
>
> Jim Snyder-Grant
> 18 Half Moon Hill
> H: 978 266-9409 <(978)%20266-9409>
> C: 508 572-2985 <(508)%20572-2985>
>
> On Sep 5, 2017 6:29 AM, "Alan & Ruth Bragg" <alan.ruth.bragg at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> One of the Bedford/Concord markers
> <https://goo.gl/photos/QN5jRUJ3bgtgoQEt7> bears painted survey dates of
> 55 and 70.
>
> I added this stone
> <http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4783742794#map=16/42.4807/-71.3180> to
> "Open Street Map" with tags historic=boundary_stone, inscription="B C",
> source=survey and description=Granite Post
> Alan Bragg
>
> Alan
>
> On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 10:35 PM, Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Local history podcast/blog HUBhistory has the statutory Perambulating the
>> Bounds (and requirement for the "Selectmen" to do so [sexist much?]) and
>> town Boundary markers as the long topic in current episode.
>>
>> http://HUBhistory.com/044 cc: podcast at hubhistory.com
>>
>> My comments include "dress for ticks if perambulating ..."
>>    https://twitter.com/HUBhistory/status/904805156499357696
>>
>> [​My previous comments on this topic are that ​living in the City of
>> Boston, I'm probably never going to be appointed a delegate/substitute; the
>> City and MassDOT have employees for the Boston boundary now. Those of you
>> in Towns with amateur politicians have a better chance at this.  OTOH
>> Boston's bounds are big enough to take more than a day anyway.]
>>
>> --
>> Bill Ricker
>> bill.n1vux at gmail.com
>> https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux
>>
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