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Washington Times, January 5, 1927, page 1.

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Braddock's Rock Is Used For Survey

Ancient Stone Comes To Light As Land's Bounds Are Sought.

Under this wooden screen at corner of one of Naval Hospital Buildings is all that remains of Braddock Rock, center of land boundary controversy government is trying to settle.
Surveying crew working on banks of Potomac and on Naval Hospital grounds, trying to fix boundaries identified as so many rods from old Braddock Rock.

Surveyors Are waving and calling numerals to one another in the vicinity of the Naval Hospital and Lincoln Memorial today, as they strive to solve the mystery of Braddock's Rock, which was a Washington landmark before Washington existed. General Braddock, commanding British troops in pre-revolutionary days, landed on the rock, legend says, with a large force. At that time the rock was in the middle of the Potomac. Since then much of, the land has been filled in and now the rock lies underground In the Naval Hospital grounds. The Government condemning land in that vicinity, discovered old deeds, that used the rock as a boundary line, necessitating an exhaustive survey.

Braddock's Rock Is Used For Survey, The Washington Times, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, January 5, 1927, Page 1. (PDF)

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