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The boundary (in Latin: limes) may appear as a discontinuation in the terrain: a ditch, a bank, a hedge, a wall, or similar, but essentially, a legal boundary is a conceptual entity, a social construct, adjunct to the likewise abstract entity of property rights. A cadastral map displays how boundaries subdivide land into units of ownership.
The 1.25 million-square-foot, $1.03 billion complex is the country’s largest all-electric, zero-carbon office complex. California’s largest state development unveiled in Sacramento, honors ...
The Daniel and Mary Lee House is located in a rural setting of eastern Portland, on the north side of Pepperidge Road east of Jobs Pond Road. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, three bays wide, with a central chimney. A single story shed-roof ell, part of the house's original construction, extends to the rear.
This list includes properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Orange County, North Carolina.Click the "Map of all coordinates" link to the right to view an online map of all properties and districts with latitude and longitude coordinates in the table below.
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In April 1874, Robert E. Lee and Mary Custis Lee's eldest son, George Washington Custis Lee, filed suit against the United States government in a Virginia circuit court to regain the property. [ 19 ] [ 27 ] Custis Lee was a major general in the Civil War and was captured by Union forces at the Battle of Sailor's Creek on April 6, 1865 (see ...
The California side of the marker. The 1872 marker near Verdi, Nevada is a four-sided cast iron pylon eight feet tall. It includes the words "CALIFORNIA" on the west face of the pylon, "NEVADA" on the east face, "1872, LONGITUDE 120 WEST OF GREENWICH, A.W. VON SCHMIDT, U.S." on the south face, and "170 MILES 47 CHAINS TO OREGON" on the north face.
The property was settled in as early as 1785 and had several incarnations and owners before the current house was built in 1873. The most famous resident of the property was Dr. Alfred Sawyer, who lived there from 1859 to 1870. In 1938, the house was given to the city. The house is currently open to the public for a wide variety of functions. 18