surveying | Brown Signs

Historical Marker

14 June, 201923 June, 2018 by Brent Brian

On the way to Harrisville from Warrill View the Historical Marker brown sign appears on a straight section of road. The sign is for a memorial cairn on the side of the road, which otherwise doesn’t stand out as significant from the agricultural land is sits beside. The memorial was erected May 1988 in honour of … Read more

Historical Black Stump

17 September, 202311 April, 2018 by Wayne and Bette Brian

The Black Stump was a stump established as an astro station in 1886 for surveying the region. Stumps were used by surveyors instead of using a set of legs because it gave more stability for heavy theodolites to take longitude and latitude observations. The astro station was used as part of the survey to fix … Read more