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title: The River Border Nobody Can Agree Where It Is
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author: N. Harlow
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date: 2026-09-06
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kicker: World
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subject: world
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template: article
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excerpt: Two towns, one floodplain, and a surveyor's error from 1893.
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Two towns, one floodplain, and a surveyor's error from 1893 have kept a border in dispute for more than a century. Neither side will yield the mudflats, and both claim the weir as their own.
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The original boundary stone was placed on a bank that has since migrated sixty yards downstream. Every spring, the river moves it again — and every summer, the argument resumes. |