About
Miller Farm is located in the
rolling hills of central Wood County between the city of Winnsboro
and the community of Perryville. Interesting features about the farm
include being credited as the highest point in Wood County by the
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in 1950; this information can also be
found in another U.S. government agency, the National Geodetic
Survey (NGS), a branch of National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA). Below is a photo of one mark, CR1231, which
is a triangulation marker that lies along a power line right-of-way.
Click link below for complete information. (opens in new browser
window)
http://www.geocaching.com/mark/details.aspx?PID=CR1231
The property resides on an old Texas land survey known as the ESSL
survey, and the property was formerly a part of the ESSL family
estate which held property on all sides of the Miller Farm location.
There is a 100+ year old oil pipeline right-of-way laid by Gulf Oil
Company known as the Spurlock Pipeline that crosses the farm. The
right of way is still in place today and at one time had 4 separate
pipes that carried oil to the Texas Gulf Coast. Today one pipe is
still in the ground, but is not used and no service of the
right-of-way has been made in 10~15 years when the other 3 pipelines
were removed to recycle the steel.. The farm uses the right of way
as a pathway to access the heavily wooded back portion of the
property for fence maintenance, timber & wildlife management.
