Ellicott's Rock: Surveyor's Footsteps on the 35th Parallel

Working for the State of Georgia in 1811, surveyor and astronomer Andrew Ellicott set his famous rock marking the northeast corner of Georgia, common to North Carolina and South Carolina, on the bank of the Chattooga River on the day after Christmas. He had begun his surveys a few months earlier by following the footsteps of previous surveyors, whose conflicting boundaries had fueled the so-called “Walton War” among contentious settlers in that mountainous area. Did they live in North Carolina or in Georgia? Ellicott did settle the war, but his client did not like the answer. Since that time, has anyone recovered Ellicott’s Rock? For the past 200 years most people have looked in the wrong place. Why? Surveyor and historian Tom Robertson answers those questions today, and in his publication Ellicott’s Rock: Surveyors’ Footsteps on the 35th Parallel, culminating over seven years of searches through dusty archives and beautiful mountain wilderness scenery.