October 27, 1926

A monument placed by the L’Anguille Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Marianna (Lee County) was dedicated. The monument marks the “initial point” established during an original survey of lands added to the United States as a result of the Louisiana Purchase. While re-surveying the boundary between Lee and Phillips counties in 1921, surveyors Tom Jacks and Eldridge P. Douglas of Helena (Phillips County) had discovered the witness trees marked by the Robbins party in 1815 as the initial point of the Louisiana Purchase.