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Ellicott’s Rock: Surveyor’s Footsteps on the 35th Parallel at CLE Lecture Hall
Ellicott’s Rock: Surveyor’s Footsteps on the 35th Parallel
Working for the State of Georgia in 1811, surveyor and astronomer Andrew Ellicott set his famous rock marking the northeast corner of Georgia, common to North Carolina and South Carolina, on the bank of the Chattooga River on the day after Christmas.
Since that time, has anyone recovered Ellicott’s Rock? For the past 200 years most people have looked in the wrong place. Why? Surveyor and historian Tom Robertson answers those questions today, and in his publication Ellicott’s Rock: Surveyors’ Footsteps on the 35th Parallel, culminating over seven years of searches through dusty archives and beautiful mountain wilderness scenery.