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DescriptionBorden Base Line - Massachusetts map, 1871.jpg | Map showing the location of the "Borden Base Line" running north/south between South Deerfield and Hatfield, Massachusetts, USA, here indicated as the "Base Line of the Mass. Trigonometrical Survey". This was the baseline for the first geodetic survey in the United States. This line was surveyed in 1831 to an accuracy of better than 1 part in 5 million by Simeon Borden. |
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Source | "Official Topographic Map of Massachusetts", Philadelphia : Stedman, Brown, & Lyon, 1871. Page 43, Franklin County. This image has been cropped to remove extraneous terrain. |
Author | H. F. Walling, Ormando Willis Gray. |
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