Atlas, Town Boundaries 1914, Hampden, Hampshire & Franklin, Hampden County Archive Project

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The system of numbering adopted in describing the boundary between each two adjoining towns run* frtun one three-town comer or four-town mrner to the neat, increasing from north to south» at hom ea*t lo wm. Tlic- principal triangulation nations ire »hown by name on folio I,

Natural! or’wawc boundaries are taken fmm actual survey» plotted on a lar£e icale and reduced to the Kaln of thif plan. Copies of the iarjje-scale plans an on file at the office of the Commision.

The triangulaikin of tlii* survey i* bated ojv that of tli#c TJ. 5- Coast and Geodetic Survey, wliosc oriiceri ha\-c given v* müeri.vl asaistance in the adjuitment of the triangulation *yucm.

The projittiün i» based on th* " Qarkr Splwroid n and the aitronorakal data adopted by the U. S. Coait and CJeodrtie Survey in tftfio.

The uiual form ol eonventional signs to reproent [be topography Ln the vicinity of each bound ii adnpted, and corresponds substantially with the style adopted by the tnpographieal etHiTeTence held in Washington,, D. C-, in iSgï.

Th= principal Geld work for thii group was cjtrruted under the direction of Engine E. Peirce in 1895 and 1900 and 1910 to ...