The Things You Find...

[helwen]

I'm trying to locate current contact information on some folks for my godfather, who doesn't have internet. One of the people lives or lived in Cass Lake, Minnesota.

Cass Lake History

This site doesn't pertain directly to finding the person in question, but I was amused to find something called the Lost Forty. It's forty acres of virgin forest that was left untouched because it got mistakenly mapped as being under water.

Worthwhile place to go, if you want to see what part of Minnesota was like before the loggers came in the 1800s.

Comments

[rufinia.livejournal.com]

Cass Lake is lovely- the entire area up there is gorgeous.

[helwen.livejournal.com]

It really looks gorgeous up there.

[lyanna-beth.livejournal.com]

Fascinating site, and a place I'd like to visit. Thanks for sharing.
Having been a cartographer for all of my working life, I LOVED the bit about it having been mistakenly mapped as under water - especially since for the past 30-something years I've been mapping what's underwater!

[helwen.livejournal.com]

lol. Hey, these things, they happen. Although perhaps more often back then? Of course we don't know if there weren't some reason like say, unfriendly residents who objected to the cartographers walking through their yards. In which case they might have made a few things up.... happened down on one of Tennessee's borders.

Have you mapped things like volcanoes underwater? Just curious.

[lyanna-beth.livejournal.com]

Haven't mapped volcanoes, but we did map "pingo-like features" when we did a survey in Fury-&-Hecla Strait, which is between Baffin Island and the mainland at the v-e-r-y top of Hudson's Bay. We weren't allowed to call them pingos, because they were underwater and we couldn't do a 'proper' geological check. [Pingos are like ice-plugs which push their way up through the tundra, very much like basalt plugs/monadnocks pushing up through the Shield and the land eroding down around them.] They tend to come up from the sea-bed very sharply, and could be very easily missed with the technology which they had in those days. (1981).
Mind you, the Captain almost had a fit when we found one of them, becasue he'd passed within a very few feet of it with the big survey vessel, and it was later found by one of the much smaller (and much shallower) survey launches, and if he'd been just a few feet over on the way into the Strait, he'd have ripped open the bottom of the CSS 'Baffin'.

Then there's the story about the hydrographic survey in the Pacific which ran aground on a coral reef. The front of the survey launch was rammed into the coral, but the sonar in the mid-section still showed a depth of over 300'...