Ellicott's Stone

Ellicott's Stone

Infobox_nrhp | name =Ellicott's Stone Ellicott Stone
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nearest_city= Bucks, Alabama
lat_degrees = 31
lat_minutes = 0
lat_seconds = 4.98
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 88
long_minutes = 0
long_seconds = 2
long_direction = W
locmapin = Alabama
area =
built =1799
architect=
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added = 11 April, 1973cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2008-03-06|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = Local
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Ellicott’s Stone, also known as the Ellicott Stone, is a boundary marker in Mobile County, Alabama. It was placed on April 10, 1799 by a joint U.S.-Spanish survey party headed by Andrew Ellicott.cite web|title="Ellicott's Stone" | work="History & Heritage of Civil Engineering" | author="American Society of Civil Engineers" | url=http://live.asce.org/hh/index.mxml?lid=64&versionChecked=true|accessdate=2008-03-06] cite web|title="Alabama Surveying History"| work="Alabama Society of Professional Land Surveyors"|url=http://www.aspls.org/history.html|accessdate=2008-03-06] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on 11 April 1973.

It is the only known stone monument set by Ellicott when he surveyed the 31st parallel of North latitude, which served as the boundary line between the Mississippi Territory in the United States and Spanish West Florida. The boundary line extended along the 31st parallel from the Mississippi River east to the Chattahoochee River, as set forth in the 1795 Pinckney Treaty, formally known as the Treaty of San Lorenzo.cite web|title="Historic Markers: Mobile County"|work="Alabama Department of Archives and History"|url=http://www.archives.state.al.us/markers/imobile.html|accessdate=2008-03-06] cite web|title="Mobile:Alabama's Tricentennial City"|work="Alabama Department of Archives and History"|url=http://www.archives.state.al.us/mobile/mobile2.html|accessdate=2008-03-06] Ellicott's Stone is the initial point for all United States Public Land surveys in the southern region of Alabama and Mississippi. It is the point of intersection of what is known today as the the St. Stephens Meridian and the St. Stephens Baseline.

Description

The stone marker, a ferruginous sandstone block about two feet high and eight inches (203 mm) thick, is near the west bank of the Mobile River. On the northern side of the stone is an inscription stating "U.S. Lat. 31, 1799." The inscription on the southern side reads "Dominio De S.M. Carlos IV, Lat. 31, 1799." (Dominion of his majesty King Charles IV, Lat. 31, 1799)

ee also

*National Register of Historic Places listings in Mobile County, Alabama

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