Survey in works of N.C.-S.C. line - CharlotteObserver.com

Those who live near boundary often don't know just where it is.

By Jeffrey Collins

Associated Press

A team of surveyors 228 years ago trudged through the thick forests and underbrush about 50 yards from where Andy Kramer's living room now rests. Another team recently confirmed their ancestral colleagues' work, assuring that Kramer's family will have to keep crossing into South Carolina just to go to the pool.

Kramer's neighborhood is one of several in the Charlotte suburbs that straddle the North Carolina-South Carolina state line, an area which has spent the last 15 years being resurveyed and will likely be scrutinized for at least a decade more.
It's a line that initially took 80 years to draw through a series of mistakes and concessions - first from the orders of a king and later by a convention of officials from both states. The surveyors of what was then the American frontier usually marked trees, leaving behind few tangible hints decades later of where the Tar Heels' land ended and the Sandlappers' began."Survey in works of N.C.-S.C. line - CharlotteObserver.com: