Milestones from Mt. Upton to Morris

In her 2008 book, "Morris: A Look Back," Joyce Foote quotes an article about the milestones.

On September 8, 2015 I bicycled from Morris to Mt. Upton and back looking for the milestones.
You can see photos of what I found below the text. You can "right click" on the images
and download them for a closer look if you prefer.

Here we quote an item printed in the Otsego Journal somewhat earlier, on
October 31 , 1907: Joseph T. Gilbert and Dr. Lewis R. Morris recently offered to furnish
stone mile posts for the State road between Morris and Mt. Upton, on the condition
the State would set them up properly in concrete. A letter has recently been
received from Mr. Harrison, Division Engineer, accepting the offer on behalf of the
State. The sign posts will be set every mile, will be simple and old-fashioned in
appearance, and should add much to the convenience and pleasure of those who travel
on the Butternut Valley State highway."

From a letter written by Kate Ecob, dated December 8, 1968, we learn how the
milestones were originally sited: "When [the road] was finished, my cousin Jo T.
Gilbert, III, who then lived at 'Quarry Hill,' wanted the miles marked. He got Gilbert
and Hugo Francke and a young cousin of his, Carroll Callahan, to measure the miles.

He gave them a 100 ft. steel tape, and the boys marked the miles from Mt. Upton to
Morris. Afterwards, Cousin Jo put up the milestones, counting from the middle of the
bridge over the Dunderberg near the Presbyterian Church."

The three boys are all reported in town in 1910: Carroll (19), Gil (18) and his
brother Hugo (16). We can be quite certain of the date ? the previous two years the
Franckes had been visiting relatives in Germany, and by 1912 Carroll was dead.
With the installation of the milestones the new state road was complete. We find
a paean of praise by Mr. Deitz of the Journal in the halcyon days of 1912: "Say, is
there anything the matter with the old Butternut Valley these days? Take a spin up or
down the State road, then if you can tell us where to go for anything that looks better,
we'd like to have you."

Now after several realignments and road widening, eight of the ten original
markers remain. But these serve as an honored heritage, recalling a time when Italian
shovels and prep-school Cicero mingled to produce a safer, saner valley.

The marker for Mile 1 is apparently missing. It may be out of sight after the widening of the road. Does anyone know where it is?

The milestone for Mile 8 is also missing. It should be just a few hundred yards south of the dam in Dimmock Hollow, but I can't find anything along the highway.

This milestone somehow ended up face down in the ditch one spring recently. Give credit to Ted Johnston for getting it standing up correctly again.

The vehicle used to search for the milestones. It is a Bike Friday folding bicycle, made in Oregon.