Thanks.
I'll look at the topos and see prospects look most likely. I might wait until
the leaves are off before mounting an expedition, but maybe not.
In your field report at the second link below, you noted that Escambia County,
Alabama, bounded on Escambia County, Florida, and you mused:
> i wonder how many pairs of counties of the same name abut across state lines
> like this
One follow-up mentioned two San Juan Counties that meet diagonally at the Four
Corners of AZCONMUT, but there was no other immediate offering. I'm able to say
that Union Parish, Louisiana, borders Union County, Arkansas, and that Sabine
Parish, Louisiana, borders Sabine County, Texas.
Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 2:20 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: ellicott mound prospects in louisiana
> ok fantastic
> & please feel entirely free to be the first to bail me out of my predicament
>
> most of my 17 topozone generated prospects are in the felicianas
> but i cant say which are most likely
>
> i would say they are about as tall as a texan & quite massive if they are
> still all there
>
> there is still a pic of a somewhat eroded one
> probably on alfl tho
> linked to
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/8454
> & a verbal description of another probably grander one on alfl about a third
> of the way
> down this field report
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/9185
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus" <mcmanus71496@m...>
> wrote:
>> I don't know of any 1799 Ellicott mounds on LAMS, but I've never been a huge
>> student of that particular one of my state's boundary segments. If he left
>> one
>> per mile, surely at least one of the slightly more than 100 should survive.
>>
>> I'm willing to give this some attention when I get caught up post-hurricane.
>> Unless you want to reserve the quest for yourself, I'd even be willing to
>> undertake an expedition to a few of the most likely of your 17 prospects.
>> Just
>> how big are these mounds supposed to be, anyway?
>>
>> Lowell G. McManus
>> Leesville, Louisiana, USA
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "aletheia kallos" <aletheiak@y...>
>> To: <boundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
>> Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 11:34 AM
>> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] ellicott mound prospects in louisiana
>>
>>
>> > now that i have shot my mouth off about louisiana
>> > still having some 18th century earthen mounds on the
>> > lams state line that were once esus international
>> > boundary markers
>> > to go along with her 1 remaining 19th century latx
>> > rock
>> > it occurs to me i may well be called upon to
>> > substantiate this claim
>> >
>> > which i cant yet
>> >
>> > i have visited several & learned of several others of
>> > these 1799 ellicott mounds that still mark the alfl
>> > state line
>> > & yikes i have just recalled another famous one on
>> > flga
>> > so i must add georgia to the distinguised fraternity
>> > of the international border convergency of the the
>> > deep south i mentioned to david
>> >
>> > ga fl al ms la tx
>> >
>> > but the point is i have no idea if an ellicott mound
>> > will ever actually be found on lams
>> > hahahaha
>> >
>> > i have seen ellicotts field notes showing that he left
>> > them at roughly 1 mile intervals all the way from the
>> > mississippi to the chattahoochee
>> >
>> > in fact he is known to have begun with that sector &
>> > to have proceeded west to east on it
>> > so
>> > the oldest international boundary marker in america
>> > if one wanted to add the distinction of greatest age
>> > to such a quest
>> > will be the nearest one to ellicotts initial point
>> > presumably near modern lams2cowewi on the mississippi
>> > aka the concordia west feliciana wilkinson tertiary
>> > tripoint
>> >
>> > & i have found 17 promising elevation locations that
>> > are marked squarely on the lams state line by usgs
>> > topography
>> > the nearest to cowewi being so far happily just out of
>> > range of angola
>> > but of course any of these 17 prospects that would be
>> > so good as to actually pan out would do me just fine
>> >
>> > the especial delicacy of the situation tho is that the
>> > bus&ss bible doesnt even mention that this part of the
>> > lams state line was ever retraced & remarked
>> > as it states the alfl part of ellicotts mound line was
>> > in 1853
>> >
>> > so for this reason
>> > & also in view of the fact that the mound line
>> > perfectly coincides with the well marked public land
>> > survey base line
>> > i expect to find no other lams markers anywhere than
>> > just federal corner pins & whatever is left of the
>> > original earthen mounds
>> > if anything
>> >
>> > but any harder evidence or leads than just these
>> > inchoate gropings of mine would be much appreciated in
>> > the meantime
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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