Where are the rock mound photos?

Kent McMillan · 2010-07-01T01:33:16Z

Just to get things off to a good start, what could possibly be more appropriate than a photo of a ... rock mound? (Well, aside from a photo of any number of items that come to mind.)NW Corner Sur. 12, G.H.& S.A. Rwy. Co. Block A2, Terrell County, TexasThis one was built in 1889 to mark the Northwest corner of a nominally mile-square section known as Survey 12 of Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Rwy. Co. Block A2 in what is now Terrell County, Texas. Block A2 was originally located in 1880 by a very minimal amount of surveying that appeared to have basically just traversed along a military road, building corners that fell near to it, and leaving the remainder of the block to be filled in at some later date when someone would arrive who was interested in knowing where the various section corners fell.Actually, that date arrived in 1889 when the G.H.& S.A. Rwy. Co. was sued by the State of Texas to recover lands it had illegally obtained and part of the judgment was that the successor in interest to the G.H.& S.A., the Southern Pacific, would pay for having a good survey made of all of the sections in Block A2 which the State recovered.Block A2 was one of the earliest surveys (appropriations) of public lands in the area. After 1880, a series of surveys known as the D Blocks, D or D1, D2, D3, and so on through D12, were located around A2. This diagram shows the situation semi-schematically. It doesn't show the fact that parts of the South end of the D Blocks were later found to extend into the Republic of Mexico, when actually run out on the ground. Attached files

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