10/30/2025
A short 128 years ago, on October 19, 1897, the county surveyor, Chris W. Reeves laid out the boundary between to landowners. Today we had the pleasure of searching for and successfully recovering two of the cornerstones set in the ground by him and his sworn chainmen. It may surprise most people today that their property boundaries rely on monuments like these set out by people from so long ago. For a Land Surveyor there is no better feeling then finding one of these stones and placing your hand on the chiseled X, its like reaching back in time and shaking hands with that surveyor over a century past. We will document these finds with both the County as well as in the state repository in the hopes that the next generation can locate and use these markers.
In two of the pictures below you can see the survey plat and notes by Reeves in 1897. The corner on the aerial photo marked A was a 30"x10"x3" stone with an X cut in the top. The corner marked B was actually found by Reeves that October day, he states that he measured from both witness trees and found the stone at the proper place. He notated it as being 17"x10"x9" with an X on top. Both of these stones were carefully lifted from the ground where they were found and they matched those dimensions. The 30" long stone had fallen on its side and was reset firmly in the ground as pictured.
