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Photographer: Hathi Trust
Caption: Northwest No. 8
Near Pinehurst
Additional Description: “Northwest No. 8 is nearly a mile eastward from Chevy Chase and deep in the woods. No other portion of the ten miles square presents more nearly the appearance of primeval forests than does the country adjacent to this and the following stone. Remote from roads, where few travelers venture, yet bordering almost on the beautiful settlement of Chevy Chase on the one side and the Rock Creek National Park on the other, this stone is a fit memento of the early days of the republic. It is in fair condition, and erect though moss grown. To this secluded spot have now come the surveyors with transit and steel tape and they, followed by the axe men, have carved a broad lane through the massive woods and "Boundary Avenue" with various intersecting streets will soon be its near neighbors, and houses and people will congregate, in its vicinity.

Too soon, alas! will the change come for the true lover of nature, which ushers in the days of “boom sub-divisions,” garish cottages and doubtful joys, and drives him still further afield if he wishes to commune with, nature.” -- Fred E. Woodward.
From A Ramble Along the Boundary Stones of the District of Columbia with a Camera, by Fred Eugene Woodward, 1907.
Submitted: April 12, 2021, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p579101
File Size: 0.365 Megabytes

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