Was looking on the shore of Swan Lake and found this 1892 Meander corner.
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Looks like a rock to me.
We drove up and walked up to the lot to look for the owners who were talking with a contractor about a construction project on site.
I introduced myself and my assistant and they introduced themselves. When I told them we wanted to look for the corner on the edge of the lake- it was supposed to be a marked stone and some marked trees.
?ÿHe said, "That's interesting, I'm on the (Montana)Supreme court and we're dealing with meander lines right now.?ÿ It's an interesting coincidence we have one on our property.?ÿ Let us know what you find."
?ÿThen she said- " Let go look! (We start walking down to the beach) I remember when I was a very young girl, my grandfather showing me a tree with a bunch of marks on it! And I'm sure it was this tree right here, but now you can't see the marks." She was placing her hand on a 35" DBH yellow pine that had an almost completely healed blaze on the NW face.
I showed her what appeared to be some scribing deep inside the blaze and told her that under certain circumstances,?ÿ I might want to open op the blaze to verify the scribing, but I didn't want to damage the tree on her waterfront. She went back up to the house and we started searching.?ÿ I staked out 2 positions- one at GLO record and one from a 1969 plat that was 30 ft short of GLO record.?ÿ The 1969 plat position?ÿfell at the GLO record distance from the yellow pine , with the blaze facing the position. Unfortunately, the record bearing in 1892 was to a 20" TAMARACK at S33^35'W at 42 links, where the 35" Yellow pine was at S33^E?ÿ at 42 links and the position was within 5 ft of a metal and rock mound fire ring.?ÿ After a cursory dig at the position without finding anything, we widened our search and I rolled over a suspicious stone that was placed near the step of a small storage cabin, and found the marks. I went back up to the house and brought the owner down and showed her what we'd found. Her response- " It really IS a marked stone!"
I set a standard monument and buried the original alongside. We painted the top of the monument black and burnished it a bit to give it a subdued look.
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this is the view of the BT from the corner
?ÿWe didn't put a BT tag on the tree. Assistant asked why not. Answer because it's in the front of a lakefront property owned by a supreme court justice and we don't need to mark up his trees....
here's my cap
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Here's the view out-
Good work.?ÿ It doesn't hurt to have a Supreme Court Justice recognize your work either.
We have almost no stone monuments around here.?ÿ Our original Land Lot surveys called, almost entirely, for trees as the land Lot Corners (i.e. Pine).?ÿ Anyone who has ever visited Georgia can tell you we are almost completely covered with pines.
Andy
