The Sunday Picture Show (October 22nd, 2023)

That last group of my pictures was the Buck 118 all clean and pretty in staged pictures (glamour shots). Here are some at use photo's of different Buck 118 Personals in their work-a-day role. OH
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The marker is right by the shore line on Lac Vieux Desert on Duck Point. Most of the point is Michigan but the end is Wisconsin.

This is the only info I found about it.

The US government thought that they could use rivers to separate the Upper Peninsula from Wisconsin. This mostly works with the Menominee and Brule Rivers emptying into Lake Michigan. However, there is a gap from where the Brule River starts at Brule Lake to where the Montreal River empties into Lake Superior. Cram’s job was to draw a straight line between the two spots. The Treaty Tree marks the start of this line at the headwaters of the Brule River. Surveyors often carved into trees to mark special spots and that is exactly what Cram did. The Tamarack tree he chose is dead and preserved at a museum in Marquette. As you can read below, the idea of land ownership and precisely defining state borders was lost on the Ojibwa (Chippewa) indigenous people of the time. I don’t think future surveyors left gifts for them at the site. Cram sent his report to Congress and the border was redefined. Instead of rivers separating the two states, a section would be a land border.

William A. Burt came back in 1847 to make it official and a monument is in place marking “Mile Zero”, which is the start of the land border between the Brule River, going to Lac View Desert and continuing to the Montreal River and eventually Lake Superior. In 1928 a Joint Border Commission put in the plaque.
 
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wonderboy1377s said:
The marker is right by the shore line on Lac Vieux Desert on Duck Point. Most of the point is Michigan but the end is Wisconsin.
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Thanks, I found this:


"A Supreme Court decision on November 22, 1926 (Michigan v. Wisconsin 272 US 398) awarded a sliver of land to Wisconsin. The dispute arose because the original 1836 boundary description referenced a situation that did not exist: The referenced Montreal River did not originate from the Lake of the Desert."
 
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