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I just got back from a 5 day hiking trip to the Boundary Range - the ridge line that forms thr border between the US and Canada along New Hampshire and western Maine. The area is very remote and the only passage in most parts of the area is over dirt logging roads. I drove up Wednesday and crossed over to Woburn Quebec which is a few miles past the Coburn Gore Maine border crossing, where US Route 27 crosses into Canada. I hiked Wednesday afternoon, Thursday and Friday from the Canadian side and then Friday night crossed into Pittsburg New Hampshire where US Route 3 terminates. Saturday morning I was met by a friend and spent Saturday and Sunday morning hiking from the US side. All of the benchmarks were on or near the border. There were a series of boundary monuments (set in 1845) and a few triangulation stations set by the boundary commision when they did a triangulation of this section in 1915 - 1916. This station is a boundary monument is on the border about a two and a half miles from Twin Peaks and one and a half miles along the border from monument No. 473. I reached the border on a trail for Marble Mountain near the small town of Notre Dame des Bois, Quebec. The monument was not the standard cast iron post set in a concrete foundation. It was a newer Granite version with similar markings. Several of the old cast iron posts have been replaced by these granite posts since the 1990s, presumably when the old posts were found damaged. This particular monument was in a very boggy spot at the old border crossing of the Magalloway Road - a logging road dating to the 19th century. The road is overgrown and blocked now, but an old customs sign still remains. Logged as "recovered in good condition" with the NGS on 8/29/2006.
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 QH0506 "MON 474 IBC" area, Maine/Quebec border
The old customs station sign where the Magalloway road crossed the border near Monument 474.
QH0506 "MON 474 IBC", Maine/Quebec border
QH0506 "MON 474 IBC" area, Maine/Quebec border
Close up of concrete base showing monument number.
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