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Laurel Brooke Timeline

Chris

I’m finally starting to publish some of my Laurel Brooke land ownership timeline information on this site. I had recorded a lot of it in a document a few years back, but always intended on making it publicly available at some point.

Most of the information in there was gathered by me searching for specific Land Lots in the Cherokee County deeds archive as well as the Cherokee County GIS website. It’s pretty easy to find documents if you search on the Land Section / Land Lot numbers, provided the documents are indexed. If they’re not indexed, then it’s still possible to look at documents, but you won’t be able to search for them. You literally have to just thumb through the pages in the unindexed archive looking for last names, or hopefully you have a book/page number that you can turn to and find the document you need.

The diagrams that are on that page I created were all created by me using the GIS website. In some cases, I literally read the deed information that describes the plot of land, and then attempted to follow the described property lines with the measurement tool to create an outline of approximately what the land is.

Click here if you want to go right to the timeline page!

First Post

Chris

First post to a new blog!

Now comes the hard part… what do I make it all about? I guess coming up with that isn’t terribly difficult since the purpose of this site/blog is to publish interests of mine, and I have a lot of interests.

I could easily just publish on X, but I wanted a space that I almost fully control (I say “almost” because I still have a cloud service provider and domain provider that I don’t control). A blog/CMS site allows me to control the look of it, the content is absolutely not filtered, and I can build structure with menus/dropdowns/links/media wherever I want to place it. This isn’t possible on a site like X.

I have a lot of favorite topics, interests, and hobbies that I I like to focus on, so most my content will be quite random. This is where categories and tagging will come in handy! Some of the things I hope to create some posts about include:

  • Technology – Linux, AI imagery, home automation, scripting, Python, servers, cloud computing/infrastructure, gaming, home PC building, retro-computing, soldering/electronics, DIY projects, lithium-ion cell projects, solar
  • Automotive – electric cars, classic cars, cheap cars, quirky cars, automotive Youtubers
  • Land Research – historical land use, records, deeds, plats, aerial/satellite photography, topography, 3D land imagery, rural exploration/urbex
  • Music – saxophones, sheet music, music theory, electronic music/trackers, retro music/chiptunes, Spotify playlists, genres, instruments
  • Firearms – handguns, shotguns, rifles, concealed carry, shooting range, scopes, air-powered handguns
  • Art – 3D artwork, bitmap artwork/editing, traditional artwork, AI-generated art, memes

I have decided that some topics I have an interest in will not be on this site. These are things I will occasionally post about on X, but I’d like to keep this kind of content off this site to avoid divisive topics that just cause arguments, negativity, or cause me trouble with my coworkers/employer. I usually keep my place of employment hidden online, but I am actually proud of where I work and think it would be nice to occasionally post about the great work we’re doing there.

I probably won’t be enabling comments on this site either. This is mostly to avoid having to deal with bots/spam, and also because I really don’t have any interest in this site becoming a two-way discussion forum where I need to moderate content from people. I will be avoiding topics like: religion, politics, social identity, political correct/incorrectness, flat-earth theory, Star Wars vs. Star Trek, and whether or not pineapple should be on pizza.

That seems like enough “hello world” material. Alright then… off we go!