Ya, who knows what the real truth is. A google search says this theory is a myth, but it is what we were taught in school growing up. I had a state senator as a JR High history teacher and he absolutely swore this was true and had researched it supposedly.
If it is a myth, why they randomly stopped at the point they did and then went straight north is equally murky. Some sources say the surveyors went north to south, so they couldn’t have made this mistake, but other sources say differently. Who knows, but it always gets locals riled up…
Nothing like a myth to get folks riled up!
