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From: Symonds <>
Subject: [DMU] SC survey orientation
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 15:30:40 -0500

A helpful book on this subject is Pett-Conklin, Linda Marie, Cadastral
Suveying in Colonial South Carolina: A Historical Georgraphy. Louisiana
State University, PHD 1986. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms
International, c 1987.

I obtained a copy through interlibrary loan. There is a discussion of
compass orientations on plats. She says there were no official policies
in SC - so the surveyor had great control. There is a section on compass
orientations used by the surveyors. She says that in the earliest
settlement, land was laid out within the spatial framework of the
counties and afterward, the townships.

Marilyn

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