Subject: Fulton County & other Childhood Finds
Date: Jan 25, 2003 @ 15:52
Author: Craig <trehala@yahoo.com> ("Craig <trehala@...>" <trehala@...>)
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Hello BoundaryPointers

I found a few archived messages pertaining to US county exclaves, and
I located them by typing "Fulton" in the search box. As a child I
would pore over The Book Of Lists, and if I remember correctly, there
was a page devoted to geographic anomolies. Of course West Berlin was
there, but I had never heard of Point Roberts or Kentucky's Fulton
County before. So I grabbed a large road atlas at the library and
gazed in awe (!) at these bits of separated land.

Many people have posted photos of Point Roberts. Can someone please
post some photos of western Fulton County? Or tell me where to find
them? (Is there anything there worth photographing?)

The same road atlas introduced me to the meandering Mississippi River
and its oxbow deviances. Just look at the western border of the state
of Mississippi! Was the border at one time the river, which, over two
centuries, has deviated, thereby leaving isolated pockets of state
land across in another "state"?

I know I am a newbie here, and maybe these points seem like old news.
Your contributions leave me amazed. Through the archives, I am just
now learning about the Croatian triangular water exclave.
Unbelievable!

My memory is coming back now: In older editions of the Guinness Book
of Records, regarding the quad-point BoNaZmZw [1] it said that the
borders "come to a point". In later editions, it said that
they "almost merge".

Craig

[1] Through this group I am learning new terminology. Is there a
BoundaryPoint FAQ?