"Richard Leu, president of the national Surveyors Historical Society, said a block marker, not only made of stone, but as large as the one sitting near Summit and Court streets, is nothing short of rare."
Rare is right. Rich is probably still scratching his head wondering why there isn't any orange spray paint.
And people think I'm slow
"Meisner wondered about it, too, so he decided to learn its history and significance.
He and members of the company he works for, Iowa City land surveying and engineering company MMS Consultants Inc., spent several months back-tracking deeds and scouring records. They discovered that the column is the historic marker designating the southeast corner of the original plat of Iowa City — established before Iowa was a state and Iowa City was little more than a one mile square of only slightly-developed land."
I bet they only spent a few hours total.
