Free Jim Perry from MA

[Kat Kanning]

It's happening today at starting at 1:30pm in Nashua, DW Highway @ MA border.

(Actually just testing the calendar feature.)

[Russell Kanning]

It works

[LiveFreeOrDie]

It's happening today at starting at 1:30pm in Nashua, DW Highway @ MA border.

Sorry I missed it!  I just found this forum, linked from FSP.  Nice site.

One thing I noticed in the photos, that "lovely" building on the "MA side" (the decrepit old gas station) is actually in NH.  May want to change the comments for those photos.

[JonM]

It looks to be on the wrong side of the state line marker to be in NH, though a portion of the property on the red building is in New Hampshire.? Unless those large granite markers are not in fact the state line markers as they appear to be, and my mapquest maps are all incorrect on where the state line is as well.

[Russell Kanning]

We discussed that quite a bit. One of the buildings is probably on the NH side, but it is hard to tell. If you go by where the pavement changed (for the better) all of the buildings are in MA.

[Lloyd Danforth]

If they are in NH, I wonder why someone hasn't opened a nice sales tax free business on that site.

[LiveFreeOrDie]

We discussed that quite a bit. One of the buildings is probably on the NH side, but it is hard to tell. If you go by where the pavement changed (for the better) all of the buildings are in MA.

It looks to be on the wrong side of the state line marker to be in NH, though a portion of the property on the red building is in New Hampshire.  Unless those large granite markers are not in fact the state line markers as they appear to be, and my mapquest maps are all incorrect on where the state line is as well.

I can assure you that the building in question is a NH property.  Years back, when the Pheasant Lane Mall was being built, there was disagreement over state tax issues because the original parking lot plans would have extended into Massachusetts.  The plans were changed to confine every bit of bituminous within the NH border.  You will note the property in question is well within the NH lines, when compared to the mall parking lot boundaries.

There are public documents available (even online) to verify this.  Cheers!

[Russell Kanning]

That's funny ... so are you saying the northernmost building was in NH?
We were thinking we should put up a FSP sign somewhere on the property.

[Lloyd Danforth]

'Lil Jim, or, another Nashua Porc can go to town hall and check plot maps and see who owns it.  We can approach them about erecting a sign.  Maybe its for sale!

[Russell Kanning]

Maybe we should get some rich out-of-state-troublemaker to get a sign posted there.
What a good location for a welcome to NH FSP office. 

[JonM]

According to mapquest, and several Nashua residents I ran into many years back, the entire southern portion of the mall parking lot is in Massachusetts, as exit 36 of Route 3 most certainly is. We were but a few dozen yards north of that, exactly parallel to the "Welcome to Nashua" sign on the opposite side of the road, and 2 feet south of the large granite state border marker engraved with Daniel Webster Highway.  According to my maps, the border is exactly at 42 degrees 42.00N, which according to my GPS, is right where we were.  I turned off my GPS just before we left the white building, and it read 42 degrees 42.010N by 071 degrees 26.404W.

The mall's store property extending into Massachusetts was the issue, and the JC Penny store has a corner cut out of it where it would have extended into Massachusetts.  The corner you see cut out of the store in this map is where it would have crossed the state line into Massachusetts.

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