Nothing better than finding original monuments.
I'll agree with all but the first one. It's a pumpkin (squash) doctored with the 1/4 to look almost like a real original stone.
[sarcasm]The 2nd one rolled down the hill and just happened to land upright. The others were hit by farm machinery and thrown over to the fence line to get rid of them.[/sarcasm]
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> I'll agree with all but the first one. It's a pumpkin (squash) doctored with the 1/4 to look almost like a real original stone.
If one does his homework around here he will find that a tremendous number of our "original" stones are resets. Our old county surveyor notes tell the story of plenty of these, reset from the bearing trees and accessories. And usually performed in the presence of the common land owners (which I think is cool). It wasn't until the twenties and thirties that the pipes and buggy axles started showing up. Probably about the time the "motor patrol" came into existence.
We just plow ahead and make our Corner Records read "existing original monument". And I don't have a problem with that. They all seem to fit. Even finding a "reset" is exciting. 😉
Paden,
I noticed you are from Oklahoma. What county are you speaking of here? I have found some stones set by county surveyors in a couple different counties and typically, there weren't marked. At least not in the same fashion as an original. Just curious.
Brent,
Lincoln County was what I was actually speaking about. They've got the "Three Books" in the back that are a great source of County Surveyor activity in the early part of the 20th. Century. There are a number of others, Payne is another county that comes to mind.
The resets in Lincoln usually bear the proper marks, at least from my experience anyway.
