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Jackson County MI

• 11.15.09
  Baseline-Meridian State Park
  Ingham County MI, Jackson County MI (0)

  Saturday's ride took me as close as I could get to a place where one straight line intersects another in two places. And yes, this is with normal Euclidean geometry. It's the place where the surveyor's baseline which goes across lower Michigan from east to west is crossed by the Michigan meridian. These two lines "govern" the remaining survey of Michigan into townships and sections. On this Royce map I've marked the two with thin red lines to make them stand out a little better. One can see how the numbering of townships ...
  
  
• 02.05.09
  Roadside memorials
  2008-Aug-30, Jackson County MI, Labor Day Weekend - Ohio - 2008, Shelby County OH (0)

  Late last December I learned that roadside memorials like the one shown here are somewhat controversial. I weighed in on the topic here and here, saying I encountered them often but didn't have a photo of one. But just tonight I found out that I do. This one is almost a mile south of where I took the photo in the last post. (I see nothing wrong with stopping every mile to take a photo.) There is even a wikipedia article about roadside memorials. It has links to more articles about the controversy. I'm on the ...