Subject: Re: ellicott mound prospects in louisiana
Date: Oct 05, 2005 @ 14:29
Author: aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
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> Thanks.<mcmanus71496@m...>
>
> 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@y...>
> 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"
> > 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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