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The exact date that this photograph was taken was on June 13, 1916 when the iron fence surrounding the northeast #1 boundary stone was dedicated by the Mary Washington Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The barn in the background sits on the estate "Silver Spring," residence at the time of the dedication of Maryland Senator Blair Lee. The stone disappeared around September 1952. A bronze plaque marking the stone's location was dedicated on January 12, 1961 and set into the sidewalk in front of the business at 7847 Eastern Avenue in Silver Spring, Maryland. Additional photographs of this particular boundary stone appear in "Historic Silver Spring" by Jerry A. McCoy (Arcadia Publishing, 2005).

Northeast Boundary Stone 1 – Then and Now (90 years later)

As sshistory wrote, above, this is (likely) not the "North boundry [sic] stone" as originally captioned, rather it likely was "Northeast Boundary Stone 1". (A 2005 photo of the actual "North Boundary Stone" is included below.)

As the original stone was accidentally bulldozed and removed during the construction of the storefront in September 1952, this photograph of the original Northeast boundary stone is historic.

To see a Google map with photographs of 38 of the original 40 boundary stones, and GPS coordinates, click here.


"DC Northeast Boundary Stone 1 (2005)" by Mark Zimmermann

Plaque marking the location of DC Boundary
Stone Northeast Mile 1, in front of a small store,
7847 Eastern Avenue (northwest of intersection
with Georgia Avenue) in Silver Spring, Maryland.


"North boundry stone near Silver Spring, Maryland (c.1916)" by E.B. Thompson



[Actual] "DC North Boundary Stone (2005)" by Mark Zimmermann

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He was born in Cork, County Cork, Ireland, the son of James Macdonald, an artist, art critic and one of the claimants of the Annandale Peerage. Upon the death of the last legitimate heir of the MacDonald's of Castleton, Isle of Skye, Scotland, James Macdonald inherited that title, as the nearest surviving legitimate male kin. John was educated at Cork school of medicine and King's College, London, where he was awarded M.R.C.S.Eng in 1849. He later was awarded M.D. from the University of St. Andrews. Macdonald joined the Royal Navy as an assistant surgeon and initially served at the Royal Hospital, Plymouth. In 1852 he was appointed to the survey ship HMS Herald. As a result of his studies, principally with the microscope, on the seabed deposits brought up by the dredger he was awarded in 1862 the Makdougall-Brisbane prize by the Royal Society of Edinburgh and elected a member of the Royal Society in 1859 (his membership was proposed by Joseph Toynbee, Edwin Lankester, Francis Sibson, Richard Owen and Richard Partridge among others). In 1864, by now promoted to surgeon, he was appointed to the Royal Hospital Haslar in Gosport, Hampshire and in June 1870 was made staff surgeon to HMS Lord Warden, flagship in the Mediterranean. In March 1872 he was appointed to the flagship at Portsmouth for service as professor of naval hygiene at the Army Medical School at Netley, a post he continued to hold after his promotion to Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets in February 1875. In July 1880 he was promoted Inspector-General, and put in charge of the Royal Naval Hospital at Plymouth from 1883 to 1886. He retired in 1886. Following the succession of King Edward VII, he was among several retired navy officers appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the 1902 Coronation Honours list published on 26 June 1902, the investiture was on board the royal yacht Victoria and Albert outside Cowes on 15 August 1902, the day before the fleet review held there to mark the coronation. In later life he researched in the fields of zoology and natural history. He died in Southall, Middlesex in 1908. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Denis_Macdonald