Axle Property Corner

Axle Property Corner
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  • Scrap used as monuments? How strange.

    Here they normally used stones of more or less suitable size and shape as monuments, before prefabricated concrete monuments (and later steel pipes with plastic caps etc.) became available.

    But I heard of one case where a bicycle handlebar was used to mark a boundary corner in the 1920s as nothing else was available. The surveyor even referenced a bicycle shop nearby on the survey plat, so it was quite obvious where the "monument" came from ...

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    Before Berntsen; before Lunde; before Harrison; and before any other manufacturer of large stable monuments surveyors used whatever was available to mark a corner.  Many times, especially in agrarian (farming) and other rural areas, surveyors used parts from tractors, cars, or old houses as monuments.  Some examples are the subject axle, gas pipe, binder pinion, car frame member, or any other scrap of metal that could be scrounged up.  Many times these were set in a concrete base - now that's a monument!  

  • Cool!  I've heard of them...now I can say that I've seen one.  At least a picture of one.

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    amazing shot...

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