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February 10th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under
Drought-stricken Georgia eyes Tennessee’s border — and river water
Los Angeles Times
By Jenny Jarvie
ATLANTA — C. Barton Crattie, a Georgia land surveyor, did not expect to start a border war when he penned a newspaper article about a flawed 1818 survey that placed his state a mile below the Tennessee River.
The mistake in calculating Georgia’s northern corner, he figured, was just an odd historical footnote, an interesting digression for those who fret that the drought-stricken state will soon run out of water. “Unfortunately for . . . Georgia,” he wrote in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “the corner is where the corner is.”
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