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Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 14:27:16 +0100
From: Francis Herbert <[log in to unmask]>
To: 'Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum' <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: RE: Lake Havasu City (fwd)
Brendan
Thanks to John Long (see below) and to (ex-Brit) Ron Whistance-Smith (see
yesterday's reply), I need no longer explain to you the misinterpretion
element. A similar example might be if (as I do - I never know when it
could be useful) I pick up a foreign coin off the pavement/sidewalk in
England: I don't then assume that the area surrounding it is within the
sovereignty/jurisdiction of that foreign coin!
Perhaps the signboard/explanation on/near (ex-)London Bridge was not clear
on its origin and on its inherent symbols regarding the City of London?
Francis
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johnnie Sutherland [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 03 September 1999 13:36
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> Subject: Re: Lake Havasu City (fwd)
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> Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 10:05:10 -0500
> From: John Long <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Lake Havasu City (fwd)
>
> I think Francis Herbert's response is the most appropriate one, but it is
> possible that some subscribers to MAPS-L don't know that some years ago
> (the 1960s?) a real estate developer bought London Bridge from the city of
> London, England, had it dismantled, shipped it piece by piece to Lake
> Havasu City, Arizona, and reassembled it there as the centerpiece of the
> new landscape being created for a huge housing development. The dragon
> and
> sign on the bridge probably were a legitimate boundary marker when the
> bridge was at its original location but clearly no longer perform that
> function.
>
> John Long
>
> At 11:50 AM 09/01/1999 -0400, you wrote:
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> >Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 10:45:53 +1000
> >From: Brendan Whyte <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
> >Subject: Lake Havasu City
> >
> >When in Lake Havasu City, Az, in '96, i visited London Bridge, and was
> >interested by a dragon statue on a stone near the bridge, with a plaque
> >saying that it marked the limit of the City of London's land. There did
> not
> >seem to be any other such markers that i could find.
> >Can anyone tell me if this menas London, England's laws apply on this
> land
> >in any way, or is it just US realestate owned by an English corporation
> >(the City of London)?
> > Is it in any way marked on the USGS 1:24 000 maps?
> >
> >Are there any other examples of foreign territorial bodies owning land in
> >the US?
> >
> >Brendan Whyte
> >University of Melbourne
> >
> John H. Long
> Editor, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries
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