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Stones fifty and four hundred feet north were erected in 1883 by Admiral Robert E. Peary, discoverer of the North Pole. A former Fryeburg resident, he placed these two meridian stones to indicate true north and enable surveyors to obtain the magnetic variation.
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Fryeburg, Maine · United States
