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Description of property line boundaries for Mouns Jones House lot in Morlatton Village, Douglassville

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Two-page letter/report describing in detail the position and length of the property lines in addition to the size of the land parcel for the the Mouns Jones House as surveyed by Spotts Engineering Associates, Inc., Reading, PA. Image shown is of first page only. See IMAGES for second-page text. The relative locations of the Mouns jones House and Michael Fulp House are not perfectly aligned. Scale is imprecise, but dimensions are considered reasonably accurate. Adjoining land to the northwest, extending to the stone abutment pier for the railroad bridge crossing the Schuylkill River, was later conveyed to the Historic Preservation Trust of Berks County by Salvage Engineering Co. c. 1960 aerial photograph showing [in red outline] the approximate boundaries of Mouns Jones's original patented tract of nearly 500 acres within the "Swede's Tract", extending from the Schuylkill on the south to today's Route 562 ["Boyertown Pike"] on the north. Note: Mouns jones House is solid red; St. Gabriel's Church is outlined in red. Laurence Ward, 2010, and update Sept, 2020

Catalog details

Catalog number
1000.01.041
Alternate number
MJHTXT3
Accession number
1000.01
Date
February 19, 1962
Creator
Spotts Engineering Associates, Inc.
Object name
Report
Record type
Archive
Classification
Documentary Artifact

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