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Barrel of Brandy Cause of Crooked
Elizabeth Boundary
Surveyors Apparently
Couldn’t Make a Straight Line When Township Survey Made
Submitted by
Barbara Madden
Ironton Evening Tribune September 4, 1938
Most townships in Lawrence county have nice, conventional
boundary lines. But Elizabeth township seems to have gone away
like a disobedient child. When you look at it on a county map ,
its western border line looks like someone had hacked it at right
angles with a sharp hatchet.
The explanation goes that the land, now known as Elizabeth
township, was not included in the Ohio company grant and therefore
the federal government sent out its own surveying party. Supplies
for the surveying party landed at Hanging Rock and amongst them
was a barrel of brandy.
By the time the surveyor had quaffled liberally of the brandy
he didn’t know whether he was going North or South - much less
would he know if he were going in straight line.
And so lies the Elizabeth township west boundary line - a
brandy soaked surveyor’s uncertain course.
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