Posted on 05/29/2016 5:28:45 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Gastonia, N.C. — Several homeowners in South Carolina could become North Carolina residents by Jan. 1, 2017, thanks to a bill to realign the border between the states.
The line between North and South Carolina is not precisely where surveyors drew it the colonial times, so lawmakers in both states are attempting to straighten the line.
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I see new meaning to “Grandfathered”.
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.
will it help put NC more securely in our corner for the election?
They might have to go in the right bathrooms instead of whichever one they choose that day. How inconvenient!!
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So ... if you have to go ...
and stand on one side of the line ...
and pee over onto the other side of the line ...
and claim you are ‘identifying’ as a ????
WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE????
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
You are correct. However, those casinos needn’t worry any more. First, because the USSupreme Court finalized the NV/CA boundry line in 1980 such that those casinos remain safely in NV. And second, because even back then (before the court’s order was known), the California legislature was prepared with a bill to grant the casinos exemption from CA’s then-No-casinos-law. Since then, CA has had a proliferation of casinos itself (osetensibly under ‘Indian’ sponsorship, although that’s reportedly been an extremely elastic requirement -— all the NV casinos would have to do is hire FakeAHontus the phoney Injun Squaw Eliz. Warren as their front-person... and I bet they’d get by as CA “Indian” casinos., ha!). Problem solved!
Is South of the Border going to become North of the Border?
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2211
Yes it would, big time, which is why there has been no survey since 1864. I read a book about the entire situation a few years ago, and until that time, most of what is now Eastern California (from the Sierra crest eastward) was thought to be in Nevada until 1864, when the county seat of Mono County was moved westward from Nevada to president day Bridgeport, CA. The present border is now thought to actually a few 1000 yards off.
It is settled but Georgia wants to steal Tennessee land. We say no!
that error in the GA-Tenn line goes over to include the GA-NC line, drawn too far south as well. I guess the NC legislature is not willing to give up too much mountain property.
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.
Adverse possession is exactly that . . . adverse. Unless there is adversity, no adverse possession.
If the border is in dispute, that is adversarial. The properties in question have openly and notoriously been subject to jurisdiction and taxation for centuries. Leave the border where it is, historical surveying error or not.
I have a stupid question.
Did anyone in the affected properties complain about this situation? Was the alleged uncertainty about the exact location of the border causing anyone difficulty with property ownership, business ownership, any other difficulty in their lives, by not knowing to the centimeter, where the exact border between the states is supposed to be????
The border was not in dispute. It was a mistake. Mistakes don’t count.
As the flow of the Mississippi River changes off and on islands jump from one state to the other.
An ancestor who fought in the Revolutionary War was given 1000 acres in Tennessee. He had to survey it himself. He and a friend spent many weeks in the bug infested brush surveying his grant. Only to find out the land had already been surveyed by another veteran of the war. My ancestor had to start all over.
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