A Curiousity

[xenith]

This is a mile stone that used to be on the Midlands Hwy. On one side it has the distance to Launceston and on the other side it has, well, it doesn't have the distance to Hobart Town. That bit is blank. It's not an anomaly either. There's a bunch of them now at Clarendon, and every one is blank on the HT side.

Of course, the question is why?

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[ferragus.livejournal.com]

I can think of two serious reasons, and a bunch of wise acre ones.

Military reason, if you're invaded, you don't want sign posts aiding the enemy

Logistical reason, Hobart Town was growing so fast they couldn't decide on a distance

Wise acre reason, No one really wanted to go to Hobart Town

Of course it could be something even more mundane, like they didn't pay the stonecutter so he stopped working before it was done.

Be interesting to find out the real answer though!

[monissaw.livejournal.com]

>No one really wanted to go to Hobart Town

Seeing they're all stones from the north, that's quite possible (very parochical are we).

I'm leaning towards government penny pinching. All the stones I've seen have been from the northern end of the highway. 9, 14, 18, 30, 27, 53 miles out of a total distance of 124 miles.

Maybe they put distance to Ln on the northern ones and HT on the southern ones, becauae otherwise you were too far away to care. Although that does seem to defeat the reason for having distance markers in the first place.