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Historical
Marker:
Northeast Corner
of Texas
Established by
law in 1850 as intersection of 100-degree longitude and 36-degree,
30' latitude, this point remained in dispute 79 years.
Of some nine surveys made to locate corner on ground, almost none
coincided. Even so, three blocks were annexed to Texas from Oklahoma
(1903, 1929) - to confusion of landowners. One man claimed he went
to bed in Oklahoma
and awoke in Texas.
In 1929 U.S. Supreme Court had a final survey run. Some people with
land formerly in Oklahoma
could not afford to repurchase it in Texas,
but exact site of corner was at last determined.
(1970) |
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