Following up on my recent posting about the history of School Land in Tennessee, here is an example of such land along the border between Bedford and Lincoln counties that was set aside in 1820: TSLA, Record Group 50, Early Land Records Records of the Second Surveyor's District, Survey 8392 State of Tennessee, Second District By virtue of a plat laid down on the general plan of the said district, agreeable to the act of the General Assembly, passed in the year 1806, and by several subsequent acts, I have surveyed for the State 640 acres reserved for the use of Schools, in Section 4 in Range 2 in Bedford and Lincoln Counties. Beginning at a large poplar, on the head of Rock Creek, running thence north 84 1/2 degrees East 320 poles to an ash in the head of a steep hollow, the waters of Cane Creek, thence south 5 1/2 degrees east 320 poles to two beech trees and a hollow, the headwaters of Richland Creek, thence south 84 1/2 west 320 poles to a large poplar standing in a steep hollow, the headwaters of the West fork of Rock Creek, thence north 5 1/2 degrees west 320 poles to the beginning, all the corner trees marked S. L., which is truly represented by the annexed plat. Surveyed 20 September 1820, John Thompson, Deputy Surveyor John Hopwood and Harry Harden, Chain Carriers