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Date Posted: Monday, March 26, 11:00:34pm
Author: AS
Author Host/IP: d207-216-49-87.bchsia.telus.net / 207.216.49.87
Subject: We call it "land of straight lines".
In reply to: Lij 's message, "Looking at Google Earth, that appears to be pothole country." on Monday, March 26, 10:52:08pm

Grid roads-moving to the coast, where the only time you can see for a comparable distance is usually over a large body of water, was quite the culture shock. We used to joke that to drive to the farm from Saskatoon, you drove east for so long, make a right turn, almost immediately make a left and the next full stop was the town the farm is near. Keeping awake at night was a real pain in the ass, they finally got smart and put rumble strips in where highway intersections are to make sure people didn't just drive into a ditch on the other side.

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> LOL.... I think I'll stay south unless global warming becomes a real issue... -- Lij, Monday, March 26, 11:13:24pm (adsl-99-186-236-116.dsl.bltnin.sbcglobal.net/99.186.236.116)

Much the same down here except for my county because it is one of the oldest. Before they surveyed the Northwest Territory (Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota), they handed out 400 acre donations to the French settlers at Vincennes for supporting George Rogers Clark during the Revolutionary War against the British who had forts at Vincennes and other colonial towns. Those donations were laid out not on N-S & E-W lines like the township and range sections, but on NW-SE & NE-SW lines. Makes the county rather unique. But with other colonials who came to the area from the original 13 after the war and staked out claims on "lots" which were generally smaller pieces of land, the county is a real mish-mash of land-lines.

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