I apologize if this sounds stupid, but when I think about the past it seems like things shouldn’t have worked the way they did, but they still did anyways.
They didn’t have computers or cloud networks to record who owned what. So, how was it all tracked? Was it possible for someone just walk out west, stake a claim on a piece of land, build a house and live there for 30 years while everyone just kind of accepted it?
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In addition to titles and deeds being issued for land ownership, it also was (is) common to have your land surveyed and have your property boundaries marked. In New England, it’s not uncommon to see seemingly random stone walls 6-12 inches high in the woods that were used to designate property lines.
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