'Her patio is in South Carolina while her garage is in North Carolina'.
Will she need a passport to BBQ ?
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/7/carolinas-plot-border-do-over-with-dueling-surveys/
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TNAI
The headline to the article is misleading. (No great surprise as that happens frequently.)
The states do not have dueling surveys. They have been working together on this project for quite a few years now. Gary Thompson with the NC Geodetic Survey has a staff person whose job it is work on State and County boundaries.
In an interesting side note, a couple of years ago I was teaching a class for the Horrie County Chapter of the South Carolina Society. One of the students was returning some old field books he had borrowed from one of the other students. Someone asked if I wanted to take a look at them. They were the original notes from the 1920's survey of the NC-SC line starting at the coast.
Talk about a cool find. I got hold of Gary and he was going to send someone to scan and copy those old field books. The funniest things happen when you least expect them.
Larry P
> In an interesting side note, a couple of years ago I was teaching a class for the Horrie County Chapter of the South Carolina Society. One of the students was returning some old field books he had borrowed from one of the other students. Someone asked if I wanted to take a look at them. They were the original notes from the 1920's survey of the NC-SC line starting at the coast.
I was researching an irrigation canal. Went to the district office and asked about any old info they might have on it's original placement. They directed me to the attik. I found piles of field books under decades of dust.
Original GLO field books among them for the local Injun Surveys. Just flat solved another survey I was working on that had been deeded from the Injuns to a white guy.
Those dang original surveyors making mistakes again.
http://news.yahoo.com/nc-sc-state-line-isnt-where-folks-thought-183850866.html
I know this state boundary discussion has been mulled over a bit here before but what the heck is going on? Are the states really going to alter the current relied upon boundary? Will the Joint boundary commission that is working on this give a final ruling that will be legal and binding and unchanged by the court system? It seems to me that this one may ride through the courts a bit until it gets to SCOTUS.
