Indian Baseline Monument
Inscription
Initial point was established by the U.S.government in 1870. All Oklahoma except the panhandle was then divided into townships north and south and ranges east and west of initial point.
The Indian Base Line is two-tenth of a mile south of this point on beech road. Duncan is 41 miles west of initial point.
The stones in this nomument were taken from initial point.
Placed by Duncan chapter, Natioanl Society Daughters of the American Revolution as a bicentennial project
February 22, 1974
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