18th Century Harlem Mile Marker

This was a fantastic and rare find…It was in someone’s front lawn and had survived for over two hundred years! Unfortunately someone stole it a few years later and it should have ended up in a museum. It was on 152d Street if I remember and that was approximately  nine miles from NYC back in 1769, considering that New York began around Canal St in those days…

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