But at least South of the Border, South Carolina, is still south of the border

Dr. Frederick G. Berlinger built a house in what he thought was Polk County, N.C. The clarified [state] line puts most of the house in South Carolina. Some of it, apparently, was always there.

Via Hacker News [1], “How the Carolinas Fixed Their Blurred Lines - NYTimes.com [2]”

I knew there were disputes over state boundaries throughout our history (such as the Walton War [3] that took place in current day Tran sylvania County [4]; and here's another article [5] about it that contains a map of the area under question). But I didn't realize that there were still issues with state boundaries today.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9989238

[2] http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/08/24/opinion/sunday/how-the-carolinas-

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walton_War

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transylvania_County,_North_Carolina

[5] http://vanishedplaces.blogspot.com/2008/04/old-walton-

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