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Date Posted: Monday, March 26, 11:13:24pm
Author: Lij
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Subject: LOL.... I think I'll stay south unless global warming becomes a real issue...
In reply to: AS 's message, "We call it "land of straight lines"." on Monday, March 26, 11:00:34pm

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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