Saturday, July 17, 2004: the northern stretch of Indiana

The M in the road, and the Indiana Corner

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The tri-point itself is probably in the middle of the road, but it's marked with two other monuments. The first and most obvious is in Michigan, a gravestone-like marker indicating that the tri-point is 130 feet south (why put the monument 130 feet north of the actual tri-point? I don't know). The other monument is a white stone pillar that has been broken off - it stands on the east side of the road, along the MI-OH line about 50 feet. The Hillsdale Historical Society probably wanted to preserve this broken marker and thus put the new (1977) marker up the road a piece.

In the middle of the road, where I presume the tri-point actually is (there is no USGS marker), is a brass square M, looking suspiciously like the logo for the University of Michigan. I wonder if this simply indicates that the highway is now a Michigan highway, or whether its location is actually significant as the tri-point. Regardless, three monuments at the general location of the tri-point is pretty good.