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    Guild Apprentice Rwhyte's Avatar
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    Hey, I think we have an answer for the mysterious web-shaped symbols, Stone Quarries. Who knew?! And it looks like the rectangular crosshatch is for coal mine.
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    Found a legend for the plat maps at the State Historical Society of Missouri - Plat map of Cooper County 1877, at the bottom of pg.8
    https://digital.shsmo.org/digital/co.../id/1594/rec/2

    Hooray! but I still like the giant spider theory, it does seem like hobbit country there.
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