@jitterboogie An absence of liquor would have definitely shut things down for a time. The locals were moving out rapidly so didn't tend to be much ...

@jon-payne Part of my message that keeps getting left out was this description dates to the 1960's. We aren't talking about button pushers and Auto...

@hi-staker Yes.

@michigan-left This is not on a standard parallel, so all corners were set along the township line on that return trip mentioned above. No double c...

1866-1867 Government survey time frame, so the instructions last issued prior to that would have been used. Theoretically, the range lines were run f...

To be fair, there are times when using the "28 courses" methodology must be used to satisfy some bureaucracy. That normally does not involve a transf...

It can help tremendously if the municipality holds a "signing" party at their office on a certain date at a certain time with ALL those signing being ...

The imagined (viewable) centerline of the creek is where the property line is over the next millenium. That is not the same as 28 courses that might ...

@hollandbriscoe That's for sure..................... Off to see a DDS at 3:30.

Many times, we are paying in our later years for things that happened forty, fifty and more years in the past. Slow deterioration does not reverse qu...

There is one of those "28 courses along the creek centerline" in the deed to a tract in the section to the northwest of where I am sitting right now. ...