----- Original Message ----- From: "Morning Star, Wampanoag/Cherokee" <mrngstar@starpower.net> > There are several references to 'Meridians' in Indian County however "the" > Indian Meridian was in Oklahoma. Hope these links help. > > Morning Star, Wampanoag/Cherokee > > Indian Meridian (National Integrated Land System - Glossary): > http://www.or.blm.gov/NILS/terms/i/indian-meridian.htm > The principle meridian which governs surveys in all of Oklahoma - except the > 'panhandle' - adopted 1870. [Bureau of Land Management Surveying & Mapping > Terms]. > > Geographic Boundaries Determined For Tax Incentives - Associated with > "Former Indian Reservations In Oklahoma": > http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/plain/hot/atn/reservations.html > > Finding A Map With Only The Land Description - Indian Meridian: > "For all of Oklahoma except the Panhandle, land descriptions are measured > from an initial point about a mile south of old Fort Arbuckle. The original > survey was made in order to divide the Choctaw/Chickasaw Lands into separate > Nations. This point was chosen to divide what was then Indian Territory > about evenly East and West, to be near a well-known landmark and within the > surveyed area.": > http://ceil.rootsweb.com/maps-dot/str-regions.htm > > Absentee Shawnee - (Oklahoma/TGenWeb): > http://www.rootsweb.com/~itsac/migrations.htm > > Wanette And The Cross Timbers: > [Pictures and maps of the Indian Meridian] > http://geography.ou.edu/research/wanette.html > > Cemeteries of Noble County, Oklahoma: > Floral Ridge Church and Cemetery Association organized 1895, Perry, > Oklahoma - west of Indian Meridian: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~oknoble/cemetery.htm