Two questions: Can anyone direct me to photos of dates carved into timbers? Also, is the tradition to carve the year timbers were raised or the house was occupied? Thanks to all.
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Can't help you with that, but here's a pic of a tree on my property.
These are called witness trees, they were carved by gov surveyors near section corner marks. The trees are noted in the surveyors book.
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This one is wrong, they must have been drinking when they got to my corner.
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It indicates it to be the corner of section 29 and 31.
Ain't no suce place, it's actually 29 & 32. Here's the 1990 Cadastral survey mark a few feet away.
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Hijack, Joe H