I appreciate the information that Cynthia Porcher is sharing with us. This type of history is interesting. The story that Barbara Roesch was telling about the tipsy Scotch-Irish surveyors is similar to what I was told when I was in the eight grade studying NC history. This was in the mid 50's. Our teacher told us that at the point there was a liquor still. The surveyors were going to replenish their supply, but decided they would waste valuable time if they went down to it and came back. They surveyed down to the still and then surveyed their way back up. This might account for the straight line down and the wavy line back up. Maybe the truth is somewhere between here and the official version. Ken Eason