A street in Lincoln is currently getting milled and overlayed, so I decided to bust open the area where a Center of Section is located while the street is closed. This Center is a sandstone that was set in 1888. It was ordered by a judge to be the correct Center even though the surveyor who set it had wrongly reset the S 1/4 Corner by proportion when the original GLO corner was still there. In 1933 the county surveyor drove a square iron pin through the sandstone which we found. Also pieces of the sandstone and pieces of a wooden stake. I looked for the red flint recorded to be 18' to the east, but did not find that one after busting through with another hole. The street was 3" of asphalt over 6" on concrete. After the street gets paved, we'll make a tidy core and set a nice monument. I truly enjoy busting up streets!
Here is a link to a story I wrote awhile back about this court ordered mess:
http://www.amerisurv.com/PDF/TheAmericanSurveyor_Penry-CourtOrderedCorners_September2006.pdf
You didn't anything when you compare it to what I did in Indiana for a section corner recovery. Pavement saw and backhoe to open up a 5' square!;-)
Projects like that are really fun.
