It's been a while since I last posted, but am having a great year recovering original 1850's GLO stones. These are pictures of an 1857 GLO quarter corner (red sandstone) with an 1882 limestone set by the county surveyor. The GLO sandstone was about half the size recorded in the notes, so the county surveyor might have thought it wasn't big enough to reset and set his own 20"x10"x2.5" limestone and placed the GLO stone on the north side. The top 5" of the limestone was broken off, so I pinned it and glued it together with silicone.
Remonumentation consisted of setting a 1"x30" iron pipe 3.0' deep. Then placed the limestone over the pipe and the sandstone on the north side and lower than the top of the limestone. Then set a MAG nail in top of the limestone. Then placed a 1"x20" iron pipe with a 2" aluminum cap over the MAG nail. Also set a nice little time capsule down with the lowest pipe. Reference ties set and a complete write up.
Notice the "A.L." initials on the GLO stone. They do not match anyone noted on the GLO crew or anyone on the 1882 survey. I don't think all the GLO guys got their names in the notes back then.
Cool
Great work, as usual!
Henry
I'd like to hear more about how you found it. In the first pic there's a white "survey marker" sign in the pic, and what looks like a crude wood post that was dug up. Did you have a location already known from the county surveyor, and basically dug deeper, or was it more of an educated guess and some good probe work?
Jerry can smell them from 200 feet away. It's some sort of spidey sense.
[USER=50]@Holy Cow[/USER]
What? You don't smell 'em?
Me. "What's the difference?"
T.C. Carroll "It's the difference between right and wrong!"
Stacy Carroll, post: 427802, member: 150 wrote: [USER=50]@Holy Cow[/USER]
What? You don't smell 'em?
Ahhh, he Smells, alright.... 😉
That's eau de cowlogne.
Cool, nice work Jerry!
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