Hey, I've been to that joint.?ÿ A friend (former navy aviator) dragged me there.?ÿ I guess it was popular with the fly boys.?ÿ We did not drink the coffee but the beer was cold.
The plat of the City of San Francisco was recorded in Oregon.?ÿ It used to be a point of pride at the Clackamas County Surveyor's office.?ÿ I'm not sure but I think it still resides there, or at the Oregon Trail Museum.
P.s. The Oregon Territory covered Oregon, Washington and Idaho as well as parts of Montana & Wyoming.
If you include islands and bays, Maine has the third highest amount of shoreline in the Lower 48 after Florida and Louisiana.
Maine is the most forested state by percentage.
The only state with a one syllable?ÿ name a the only state that borders just one state(and we still don't get along with NH).
Hiram-Maxim invented the gas operated machine gun near Dover-Foxcroft, Maine. My father and I used to go to the machine gun shoot. Lots of fun but despite zero incidents, it was cancelled because they couldn't meet insurance requirements.
Tidal boundaries extend to low tide or 100 rods, whichever comes first.
The public has a perpetual easement in the form of a right to to fish, fowl and navigate in tidal waters.?ÿ The public also has the right to access all great ponds as long as they cause no damage while doing so.?ÿ I was quite shocked when I went out West and found out the hard way that all land is presumed to be posted.?ÿ How odd that one can exclude others from accessing a lake.?ÿ
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This is great.?ÿ I love learning new things.?ÿ Keep it up guys and gals.
New York State has the largest state park in the country, the Adirondack Park.?ÿ It's unique in that it's a patchwork of public land (The Forest Preserve) and private holdings.
From Wikipedia: "The park's 6.1?ÿmillion acres (2.5??106 ha) include more than 10,000 lakes, 30,000 miles of rivers and streams, and a wide variety of habitats including wetlands and an estimated 200,000 acres of old-growth forests."
On Jan. 29, 1906, Washington pioneer hop farmer Ezra Meeker (1830-1928) departs his grand home in Puyallup on a round trip expedition retracing the old emigrant trail to Oregon.?ÿ
By 1906 many portions of the path had been plowed up by farmers, buried under new construction, or simply overgrown and become difficult to distinguish. Meeker planned to identify the trail??s exact path and place historical markers along the way. He also hoped that one day the Oregon Trail would be commemorated by what he described in a March 18, 1906, Seattle Post-Intelligencer article as ??the monument of utility, a great ??pioneer way,?? a national highway where multitudes will travel in ease and comfort in the coming passenger automobile of the future, the car without rails, track without monopoly, the people??s own, untrammeled by vexatious control for gain.?
@john-putnam Pensacola NAS trains the Navy and Marine pilots and is a home to the Blue Angles.?ÿ
Bridge to the North is to Ono Island, an area that juts into Florida.?ÿ FloraBama was a 'package store' on a 2 lane beach road often covered over in sand in the early 60's.?ÿ
Andy, you missed out on lots of music, scantily clad people, mullet toss and a few drunks.?ÿ I recall seeing the cleanup brigade under the Perdido Pass Bridge.?ÿ But 'Safety Observer'?
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Vermont doe not have more cows than people.
Just the highest ratio of cows to people
Texas, known for it's wide open spaces of mesquite, jack rabbits, and rattle snakes, is ranked in the top ten states for timber production.
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Boston, Massachusetts is home to the first lighthouse in America.
The lighthouse was built in 1716 on Little Brewster Island.
It was destroyed by the British, but was reconstructed in 1784.
Boston Light still has an official keeper.
Historic boundaries and conservation efforts.
The "boundary dispute" that eventually led to the running of the Mason??Dixon line was an armed conflict known as Cresap's War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cresap%27s_War
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Tennessee and Georgia have a border dispute of their own.?ÿ The border was established by a survey done in 1818 to locate the border between the two states.?ÿ It was to have run the 35th parallel, but the surveyors allegedly miscalculated it and agreed upon a line that places the northwest corner of Georgia 1 mile and 28 poles due south of the south bank of the Tennessee River.?ÿ This has been an issue, particularly for the City of Atlanta, which would really love to get a drink from the Tennessee River.?ÿ But alas..., darn surveyors.
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Great educational material for all of us.?ÿ Let's see how many States, etc. we can get.?ÿ Would love some info from other countries.
@jerrys?ÿ It wasn't the surveyor per se.?ÿ It was the arithmetic done by the professor from the University of Georgia (grin), I do believe there may have been a little alcohol involved with the error.?ÿ If they had just paid Andrew Ellicott then he could have finished and all would have been well.?ÿ They'll never move the location of that corner, it's been 200 years now.
Andy
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@andy-bruner, I'm sure you are correct.?ÿ The corner established by the work is still in evidence at the site, last I read.?ÿ I attributed the "error" to the surveyors because several of the things I have read about it assumed that was the source of the problem.?ÿ I know Georgia does not care about the land particularly.?ÿ But that Tennessee River water must really be appealing.?ÿ And as you say, the corner is where it's been for over 200 years.
The engineer Elwood Mead moved from Colorado to Wyoming and became the state engineer in 1888. He was the driving force behind setting up Wyoming Water laws and regulations.?ÿ
Instead of a court based system Wyoming has an engineer based system,. The importance of this can't be understated.?ÿ
Because of this, the work of Mead, and successors in the office Wyoming has the closest to unassailable water rights in the county.
Mead didn't stop in Wyoming but also worked in other countries, Australia, Palestine, along with his involvement in the Hoover and Grand Coulee dams. Lake Mead is named after him.
With all of this history being discussed, I miss the contributions and writings of Jerry Penry. I know he suffered a horrible fire a few years ago and lost most everything. Does anyone here keep in touch with him or know if he is still okay?
@spmpls He is still active on Facebook.
@jerrys Have you ever seen the book "Georgia Land Surveying History and Law" by Farris Cadle??ÿ It is full of interesting trivia and data.?ÿ One of the few "history" books that I found interesting to read.
Andy