Hodgkins 1½ Mile Marker

 

Location

   GPS: 39.74242° N, 75.76348° W

 

Boundary Marker Missing

   This Bounday Marker is missing and the location is noted by a witness post which indicates that a benchmark is nearby.

 

1892 Hodgkins Boundary Survey

The current Delaware boundary line was drawn in 1892 by William C. Hodgkins of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. Hodgkins and his Commissioners had been charged with resurveying the boundary line drawn in 1701 by Isaac Taylor and Thomas Pierson, however for various reasons they instead contrived a new boundary line that was shifted towards New Castle anywhere from 700 to 1200 feet in London Britain Township. Several Delaware residents were inexplicably less than pleased to learn that they now resided in Pennsylvania, and the uproar prevented the ratification of this new line until 1921.

 

In this vicinity the new boundary (blue) was approximately 900 ft closer to New Castle than the 1701 line (red).