Talk:Fort Thayer
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Location[edit]
I made an edit on the location, which I'll elaborate on here in case it's contentious. There are multiple sources with different coordinates listed, but there's no reading of contemporaneous maps that would make the previously used coordinates (south of present-day Bladensburg Rd. NE) accurate. Maps of the era[1][2][3] clearly show the fort between the B&O train tracks and Old Bladensburg Rd. (present-day Brentwood Rd. NE, which still exists in fragments). All that said, we could note that the location is approximate and not exactly known. I think the modern-day grid and the existence/structure of Thayer St. NE make it likely that the FortWiki coordinates are very close to accurate, and superimposing one of these old maps on Google Earth confirms. But that's admittedly speculation and overestimating the precision of 1860s maps. -VJ (talk) 03:00, 14 June 2018 (UTC)