Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-02-15
YERMONT'S BOUNDARY
Between This State and Massachu-
sets Monument and Markers Used.

Boston, Mass. Feb. S.-The commission
ers authorized to set and reset the monu-
ments on the boundary line between Mas
sachusetts and eNrmont have submitted
their report to the governor ana council
of Massachusetts. 1t is in the form of a
pamphlet, House document No. 800, and
includes a map of the Massachusetts and
Vermont boundary line from the north
west corner of this State to the Connecti-
cut river. The question of resetting the
boundary line was brought up in Deem
Der, 1892 by a letter from Gov. Levi n
Fuller OF Vermont to Gov William E.
Russell inclosing an act of the Vermont
Legislature to establish boundary line
monuments between the two States, and
asking cooperation of the Massachusetts
Legislature. Gov. Russell submitted the
communication with the act to the Legs-
lature in January. 1888 AS one of the mat
ters to be considered and agreed upon was
the setting of the monument at the corner
of New hampshire and Vermont, at the
Connecticut river on the northern boun-
dairy of Massachusetts, and New Hamp-
shire it was thought proper to refer the
matter to the commissioners who were al
that time trying to settle the boundary
line between New Hampshire and Massa-
chusetts The Legislature of New Hamp-
shire likewise referred the matter to their
commissioners, likewise engaged The re-
port says:
monwealth and Vermont is "A continuation
of the line between New Hampshire and
Massachusetts, it having been run by
Richard Hazen in l74l from Boundary
Pine on the New Hampshire line through
to Hudson river, and no particular conten-
ton has ever arisen as to its location. No
official monuments had ever been erected,
except that at the northwest corner OF
Massachusetts, small stone has been
placed In position to mark the bound.
When Benjamin +. Varnum In 1897 was au-
thoriZed to erect monuments between
Massachusetts and New Hampshire, on
the Hazen line, he placed one on the west
bank of the Connecticut river which had
heretofore been considered the southeast
corner of Vermont, but there were no
monuments between these points. AS the
location of the southeast corner OF YER
mont and the Southwest corner of New
Hampshire on the northern boundary of
Massachusetts was of the utmost impor-
lance in locating the line between this
commonwealth and the two states, and at
the time the above resolve was passed this
point was under consideration by the COM
missoners of Massachusetts and New
HAMPSHIRE, the attention of the commits
sioners of the three States was first given
to the settlement of this question, and
several meetings were held to ascertain
its location. The monument placed there
by Varnum on the Hazen line he'd been
carried away ny "A freshet many years
ago: but its location had been preserved
by tradition, and ~ a stone found buried
in the ground on the spot supposed to be
the corner
The Vermont commissioners, not desir-
ing to mark their town corners, inform
ed the Massachusetts commissioners that
they should not join in marking the town
corners of either State. Your commission
ers considering that the town corners
were as important as road crossings, also
as every town corner on the northern
boundary of this State, from the Atlantic
ocean to the Connecticut river, is proper
ly marked by suitable stone monuments.
thought IL proper to have the remaining
corners marked; SO directed their engineer
10 set similar monuments at the Massa-
chusetts town corners on that part of
the line where they were omitted by the
Vermont engineer. The southeast corner
of Vermont and southwest corner Of New