Looking for some Google-street-views of back-roads near the point where the route reaches the border, I found this: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/17081944
And that started an internet search. So far, I've come across the following:
- An interesting article on the 1728 Virginia - North Carolina boundary survey: http://www.surveyhistory.org/va_&_nc_bounary_line.htm
- This: http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMMEM_NC_VA_Granite_Monument_No_36
- And these: http://www.lastingimpressionsbook.com/pdfs/ncandvirginia.pdf
- http://portal.ncdenr.org/web/lr/geodetic/boundary
- http://books.google.com/books?id=zTHQAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA184&lpg=PA184&dq=1887+Virginia+North+Carolina+boundary+survey&source=bl&ots=VuEfyFPs4V&sig=AxOLAl_12MtJpOuGOSSvM9CXYR8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1_7hT_HkHomg8gTxmsyGCA&ved=0CGsQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=1887%20Virginia%20North%20Carolina%20boundary%20survey&f=false
- http://www.hmdb.org/Marker.asp?Marker=2762
- And, perhaps most interestingly, this: http://www.newrivernotes.com/nc/wnc2.htm
I've copied the links into here, and published, because I don't have time to sift the wheat from the chaff, and don't want to go thru the process of finding the above from scratch, again. I'm sure there are other, more useful ways to cache these links, but ...
Disappointing, but not unexpected, most of the links in this blog post from 2012 are no longer valid. Luckily, the link in the bullet point that begins with "An interesting article" still exists and may be the best insight into the survey and associated issues of the Virginia - Carolina dividing line.
ReplyDeleteNote that the "waymarking ... granite marker #36" link still works and IF the marker has not been moved (stolen or moved to a museum), one ought to be able to find the marker (even though IvaHawk and I could not locate it in 2012).
DeleteAlso note that the link ending in "marker=2762" still works.
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