[QUOTEHi, Kim, This is something that may be of interest to a lot of folks and I feel that it may help a lot of folks more to understand what I think that may be is " this entire country was at one time called New Spain " I believe that " It Has Been " Sectioned off in one Leaues square and a spanish family designed to live it much like The Run Of Oklahoma or a lottery of sorts for famlies from Spain complete with a Cache on each site, Missions / Churches was built for support with a military support , I have seen many but here is one thats been worked pillar to post, I can furnish GPS info off Google Earth, the 1st symbol was a Cross with a cripple arm going to the North, the other 3 arms was pointing East West and South,( or the same information that that a triangle has ) the South end of the line of 5 Caches was a Triangle pointing to the North, East, West, which 5 leagues = 12.5 miles, which there should be a mission every 25 miles. Finding a map of New Spain that shows sections of leagues and they will be layed out with a compass rather than on a Grid pattern. Anyway if anyone is interested I believe it can a proven fact and would like to bring some light to something that might make it simple to walk from one to another, Its really not that hard][/QUOTE]
Hi Dsty. I have a question for you. Did the Spanish set up those sections with a mission every 25 miles or would the missionaries have done it. If the missionaries did it in New Spain, might they have done the same in New France. There was a Jesuit mission at a place called Starved Rock in Illinois. It was established in the 1670's. If they were using the same system like what you describe, where should the next mission be. Would it be on a main trail or on an east-west-north-south type grid. And would the drill holes be used to give directions to the missions. Thanks Dsty.
Rick