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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
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