Re: HIST: Flags
- To: iris-talk@onelist.com
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] HIST: Flags
- From: S*@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 20:54:31 EDT
From: StorYlade@aol.com
In a message dated 08/23/1999 5:20:08 PM Central Daylight Time,
snyder@eden.com writes:
<< It
is a nice story, but the realities of land ownership then or now would be
incompatible with such an impermanent marker. They could die, be burned in
range fires, won't live in swampy areas, no topsoil at the corner, drift
away from the center of the original planting, etc. etc. >>
Hey, stranger things happen! In many places the corners were marked with
less! In 1986 we bought two acres in Warren County Kentucky. One corner was
marked with a red flag tied around a tree and another corner was marked with
a red flag tied to a barbed wire fence. The third corner was marked with a
railroad spike buried in the ground (we never found it), and the fourth
corner was marked as "large oak tree." But which large oak tree????? duh?
Also, back then a corner was just an guestimate anyway.
Betty in BG KY
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