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When they re-marked the section corners across my county, I got to ride along with the surveyors. In the back of the van, they had a bunch of old books and maps. I saw for myself the description of the location of one of the corner coins.
“approximately 4 ft ENE of a 24 inch pine with an 8 inch oak nearby.”
I’ll be danged if they didn’t find a big old pine stump next to a 30 inch live oak tree with a bronze disc on a steel spike buried about 6 inches under the surface in the middle of a forest.
Sure they used GPS and a metal detector, but they started looking about 6 ft from the spot without turning on the GPS locator.
Incredible.
I worked three summers for the Oklahoma Highway Department surveying Interstate 35 near Ardmore. We were renewing the preliminary survey from several years before.
We were looking for a marker when a county survey team stopped to see what we were doing. They offered to have one of their team members ‘witch’ for the marker, just like witching for water but with metal rods. We were skeptical but we weren’t having any luck finding the marker.
Their team member used his rods and the first two ‘hits’ were a bottle cap and an old nail. The third hit was our old marker. We were impressed. The marker was six inches below ground level.
It was discussing the border between Indiana and Michigan.
You’re doing borders today.
Borders, Language, Culture...............Dr. Michael Savage........
I’m sure I’m missing something.
Is there some question about the exact location of the border between the states?
Is there some question about which state the houses along that street are located in?
Have the people who live there been voting , paying taxes, have drivers’ licenses, etc. from one of the states without anyone questioning, which state they live in up until now?
Are some properties going to legally now be moved from one state to the other?
A friend who spent some time in the field in Pakistan tells me that he saw Paki military out witching for landmines. They seemed to have confidence in the method. I wouldn’t want to go along for the demonstration, but it’s something to think about.
No real estate problems, just bureaucratic nonsense.
We have a beach bar on the Florida-Alabama state line called the Florabama Lounge.
They don’t have a problem.
I hear there is a similar bar up in the northeast on the Canadian-USA border that is split....................
We were impressed too by the witching for metal. Each time the metal rods crossed, we would take a plumb bob and lower it to the ground. Each time there was metal there.
They offered to teach us how to do the witching. One of our guys became really good at it. Others not so good.
It’s one thing to witch for metal and another thing entirely to witch for land mines.
I’ve also been with a private inholder on a major Civil War battlefield who demonstrated witching for graves. He has researched his property carefully and has good evidence from letters and regimental histories that there are/were graves in the vicinity of where he gets hits, but the site has never been dug and he doesn’t want it disturbed. Nor does he want the location disclosed because the relic hunters would swarm it the moment his head was turned.
The two of them literally went to war over it. Google “Toledo Strip War.”
Not specific enough
That’s one of the reasons Ohio and Michigan don’t get along.
I have my g grandfather’s bayonet from CW 1. My mom hid it in a pillowcase.
The only Indiana joke I know:
“Indiana is a really messed up State, you know.”
“Oh, yeah? Why’s that?”
“Well, the city of South Bend is in the north of the State; North Vernon is in the south; and French Lick isn’t at all what I thought it was going to be.”
How do we know the toothbrush was invented in Indiana?
Because if it had been invented anywhere else, it would be called a teethbrush...........
Notre Dame students always wanted to be in Michigan rather than indiana.
Well maybe Indiana can do what Michigan couldn’t, beat the Buckeyes.
I went to the Space and Air Museum in Indiana...
I paid $20 just to see an empty warehouse.
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