6 months ago
A controversial 200-year-old survey marker detailing the border between two states -- and water rights to the Tennessee River -- is missing.
The Camak Stone, a slightly off-the-mark surveyor's stone at the merge of the Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama borders, isn't where it is supposed to be.
The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports that a volunteer for nearby State Line Cemetery, Freddie McCulley, noticed the stone was gone after discovering some vandalism at the cemetery.
A surveyor placed the Camak Stone in 1826 at what he thought was the 35th parallel marking the border between Tennessee and Georgia.
The marker has become a source of controversy between the two states in a battle for water rights in the Tennessee River.
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