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Meridian-Baseline State Park

Leslie, MI

Michigan's principal meridian and baseline should have met cleanly here, but early nineteenth-century survey crews working independently created a mismatch of more than 900 feet. The small state park preserves survey monuments marking both lines, turning an old mapping error into a walkable geographic curiosity.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: michigan.gov/recsearch/parks/meridian

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