Good God! What if some of those South Carolinians are trannies and suddenly become residents of NORTH Carolina. The implications are staggering, to say the least.
Georgia and Tennessee have never completely settled their border either.
Drunken surveyors are nothing unusual. My cousin ended up owning a good chunk of his neighbor’s yard and one of the guy’s porch steps. They cheaped out when they divided the property.
The California Nevada border is a little off too according to some researchers. Last officially surveyed in 1864.
One high school basketball from South Carolina, upon signing to play college ball in North Carolina remarked “I always hoped to go to a school up north”.
Paraphrased, but that line always made me laugh.
The states agreed 20 years ago to redraw the 335-mile North Carolina-South Carolina border from the mountains to the Atlantic Ocean. To alter the border in any way from those 1735 instructions would require an act of Congress
Mr. niteowl77
Geesh ... leave it alone, if it has been there that long. Damned people don’t have enough to do!
Can’t they just leave well enough alone, and redraw the border to zig zag around these properties??? Why can’t each state agree to make the exception to the original colonial boundaries??
I can see happening in the southwestern US along rhe US-MX border
I remember Alvin York’s watering hole from the Gary Cooper movie, that had the state line painted down the middle of the floor. You could only drink on one side of the bar, the other side was dry. :-)
The original surveys began in the late 1700’s and were performed with basic tools of the time: a compass and a 66 foot long chain.
The surveyors and the chain-men walked the survey line, aligning the chain with a compass bearing and stretching the chain as straight and level as possible.
Up and down hills and mountains, through swamps, streams and rivers, around trees and rocks, in wild territory and in all types of weather.
Many of the survey monuments were just piles of rocks and trees marked with a blaze cut by an axe.
Trees and rock piles from 200 and 300 hundred years ago that are now long gone.
And then there is the issue of spherical geometry - trying to lay straight lines on the curved surface of the earth.
In South Lake Tahoe, there are a couple of casinos that are actually in California, but the old CA / NV border stands.
There’s a neighborhood on the NC/SC line SW of Charlotte where the kids on one street go to NC schools and the kids on the street over go to SC schools.
this is true of a number of state borders around the country, incidentally
Is South of the Border going to become North of the Border?
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2211
This is always a joke. They find two monuments...and stick one in between...with an impressive piece of stone...write up a formal description. The two states sign off. The people have absolutely no say.
Sounds like a valid claim for adverse posession if I’ve ever heard one. Centuries have passed, untold taxes paid, deeds registered in the jurisdictions. Leave the border where it is.
As the flow of the Mississippi River changes off and on islands jump from one state to the other.
Oh good grief! If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!
Is there an actual reason why they would do this? - other than pretty up the map?