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The northern
White Mountains include the basin of the Upper Ammy; i am modifying accordingly the
wording that contrasts it with the Ammy.
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Jerzy•
t 17:57 & 19:40, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
We have
but Groveton is unincorporated and thus has no formal borders. Per GoogleMaps, the mouth lies in the midst of fields, forest, and meanders of the rivers, about a mile from the compact built-up residential and business area. The nearest road (as opposed to presumed farm lanes) is about .2 mile away, and has the flavor (per first-hand observation) a straggle of rural homes and businesses among the farms and forests, along the road to the next village (Northumberland village) rather than of people who would say they live "in the village".
We need at least to know whether the ruins of the fort lie in the area identifiable as the village -- identifiable by people having not just side-fence neighbors but also back-fence ones (or, for those at the edge of town, at least across-the-street nbrs who have back-fence ones) -- or on the other hand, whether the rivers have shifted to carry the mouth away from a site in the village that used to have both the mouth and the fort. We may in fact need to say "near" rather than "at".
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Jerzy•
t 19:40, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
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The northern
White Mountains include the basin of the Upper Ammy; i am modifying accordingly the
wording that contrasts it with the Ammy.
--
Jerzy•
t 17:57 & 19:40, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
We have
but Groveton is unincorporated and thus has no formal borders. Per GoogleMaps, the mouth lies in the midst of fields, forest, and meanders of the rivers, about a mile from the compact built-up residential and business area. The nearest road (as opposed to presumed farm lanes) is about .2 mile away, and has the flavor (per first-hand observation) a straggle of rural homes and businesses among the farms and forests, along the road to the next village (Northumberland village) rather than of people who would say they live "in the village".
We need at least to know whether the ruins of the fort lie in the area identifiable as the village -- identifiable by people having not just side-fence neighbors but also back-fence ones (or, for those at the edge of town, at least across-the-street nbrs who have back-fence ones) -- or on the other hand, whether the rivers have shifted to carry the mouth away from a site in the village that used to have both the mouth and the fort. We may in fact need to say "near" rather than "at".
--
Jerzy•
t 19:40, 1 June 2010 (UTC)