Yesterday, October 11th at 3pm at the Environmental Learning Center on Edisto Beach
State Park as we dedicated the Bache Monument, and its inclusion on the
National Register of Historic Places. This was a pretty cool event.
Can you imagine that that our country is still so new that we are
remembering the last time that we pulled out a yard stick. Check out
the rest of this story.
What’s the history behind the Bache Monument, you ask?
The US coastline between Maine and the Gulf of Mexico was accurately
measured for the first time in the 1840s. The director of the survey
was Alexander Bache, great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin. Alexander
Bache invented a tool known as the “Bar of Invariable Length” that
allowed this survey to take place. The baseline at Edisto was the third
of seven lines measured. The baseline markers still exist on Edisto,
the oldest intact baseline! Two endpoint markers are still in existence
on Edisto Island.
If you are a history buff and love being by the Ocean, Edisto is the place to visit. We are surrounded with beauty and history.
Cal Griffin
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