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  • From: "Don Bowen" <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Georgia water woes
  • Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:18:38 -0800


On Mar 15, 2008, at 10:53 AM, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

And rightly so. Gov. Bredesen pointed out that state borders were
mis-surveyed hundreds of times

One area is along the state line between Missouri and Iowa near where the De Moines river becomes the state line. The area had many Gum trees which bees like. Citizens in both Iowa would harvest honey there. An Iowa Sheriff decided that the area was in Iowa and that they people owed a tax. Missourians felt it was in Missouri and that they had no reason to pay a tax to anyone in Iowa. It ended up in the US Supreme Court and a boundary line was surveyed then staked out with iron stakes. There is a triangle shaped very small piece that was left out and claimed to be part of no state. That was settled in the 50s when it was given to Missouri.




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