The boundary corner for Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee.

Hmmm.....

1818, about the time of the PLSS First Meridian Survey (Ohio).

Baseline defined as 41 degrees north. But today that established baseline appears to be about 3900 feet too far south. Looks like a lot of surveying work coming up fixing all of those erroneous townships. Looks like we get another chunk of Michigan.

Atlanta is running out of water... if the corner gets deemed in the Tennessee River (which it won't) they think they can pipe water to the city.

... wasted money

I don't really know anything about this case, but if a monument was set in 1818, right or "wrong", isn't that where the corner is today?

The irony to the whole situation is that the survey in question was solicited by the state of Georgia, which meant they provided the equipment. In comes the sextant. The 'Great State of Georgia' gave the surveyor a SEXTANT!! considering the equipment, he actually did a very good job. Our student chapter of SAMSOG did a paper on this for credit or money and I would have to dig up the paperwork.

Generally, monuments set by the GLO are "indisputable" if you can prove that you recovered the original monument or properly reestablished the original position.

This could be interesting, though. It depends on whether you believe the state line was created by the words on the page (at a certain geodetic position), or by the monuments that were intended to mark that position.

I’m not sure that normal surveying rules would apply to resolving a dispute over a state line, and it would apparently take an act of Congress to resolve a dispute. But my guess is that they hold the existing line.

This is interesting. If I'm not mistaken, Georgia was carved out of the original Carolina Charter. Would grantor/grantee relationship apply where the grantee is the benefactor of potential discrepancies or would it be more along the line of US Government/patentee relationship, where the discrepancy goes to the US Government? Now, was Carolina under the rule of the Crown and would England rights apply or did they recognize themselves as independent.

Also, Pseudo brought up an interesting point of was the survey an "orignal survey" or just the first survey.

I agree this will not go anywhere, but it is sure fun to think of.