Clair 172 miles across the state to South Haven. Running from north of Detroit at Lake St. It would run across the state along the tops of the second row of southern Michigan counties. Marie.Īn east-west baseline was needed to begin surveying. A mid-state line covering 334 miles, starting at Fort Defiance, Ohio, ran through what is now Jackson County and continued on up the state to Sault Ste. They were paid $3 to $4 a day as they established a north-south principle meridian. Joseph Fletcher, Benjamin Hough, Alexander Wampler and Joseph Wampler as deputies of the Surveyor General were among other men that did the original work. It wasn’t until after the War of 1812 that the new lands acquired by government treaties were surveyed. After the treaty they were moved farther west. They signed away their land titles along the eastern side of Michigan. Native Americans occupying the eastern side of the state were influenced into the 1807 Detroit treaty. The first Surveying in Michigan starts at the “Cornerstone Township.” Congress created the Northwest Territories in 1787 and from part of this expansion, present day Michigan was carved. In 2016, an additional boardwalk was completed in the wetlands near the markers. After road signs, trail markers, and a bridge over the creek were added, the State of Michigan in conjunction with Ingham and Jackson counties, opened the new access to the park on October 12, 2015. Improvements made at the site included trail clearing and construction of a 10-car parking lot. The park has two monuments that show where the two mismatched baselines meet the principal meridian at the North Initial Point and South Initial Point.Īlthough the site was landlocked for many years, in 2014, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources acquired additional property allowing public access from Meridian Road near the Jackson-Ingham county line. Meridian-Baseline State Park is a 108-acre state park in Ingham County and Jackson County, Michigan, that contains the intersection of the Michigan meridian and the baseline used for the Michigan Survey. With the help of John and his Jeep and the plat maps, they finally found it – just about 300 yards from where Maurice and Barb had been earlier. First, they tried to reach it by Territorial Road on Bill Robeson’s farm, but had no luck so Barb suggested they go back to where they had searched before. So, when Barb called John Blair to see if he knew where it was located, he said, “Yes Come over,” so Ruth Foster, John Blair, and Barb Surbrook started anew their venture of looking for the cornerstone, but this time they had plat maps. They were so happy they took pictures of it, had them developed, and to their dismay it was not the one. They were getting ready to leave when they saw a large gatepost. Maurice knew about where it was, so Barb drove to Cooper Road to the location, walking on foot Barb and Maurice walked down fence lines, through dumps, through swamps, woods, around a pond, with no luck of finding it.
One cool day in October of 1978, Maurice DeCamp and Barb Surbrook set out to find the Township Cornerstone
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