December 8, 2009 in Associate Membership, Business, Continuing Education, General, GPS, Land Surveying, News, Pictures, Professional Land Surveyor Practice
Milton Denny marks and documents a previous “Ellicott?mound” he discovered. The Ellicott mounds once served as the border between the U.S. colonies and Spanish Florida. Photo by Justin Schuver.
The following news story is a very interesting article I found about Professional Land Surveyors participating in an Auburn University-sponsored workshop, “Locating the Ellicott Mounds Along the Alabama/ Florida Boundary”:
Andalusia starting point for ‘mound hunt’
Professional surveyors look for centuries-old markers of Alabama-Florida line
By Justin Schuver (Contact) | Andalusia Star-News
Published Friday, December 4, 2009
More than 35 professional surveyors and engineers are visiting Andalusia this week to take part in a “hidden treasure” hunt. But in this case, their treasure is literally nothing more than piles of dirt.
The professionals are participating in the Auburn University-sponsored workshop, “Locating the Ellicott Mounds Along the Alabama/ Florida Boundary.” The Ellicott mounds were established in 1799 by Andrew Ellicott and a team of both Spanish and American surveyors, and were used to mark the 31st parallel and show the boundary between Alabama and Spanish-owned Florida.
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