[Original Post](https://www.reddit.com/r/Surveying/comments/1qmklwn/what_is_the_most_likely_explanation_for_these/)

Last Sunday, I came across some survey documents I'd never seen before. I shared a couple of images, asking for some assistance identifying some markings on a survey.

The location is one many of you will recognize, though the story behind it may be less familiar: the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. In 1931, three years before the first Masters Tournament and several months before course construction began, the founders of Augusta National commissioned the Olmsted Brothers to survey the property and assist with early development plans. The survey images I shared are the result of site visits conducted during the summer of 1931.

However, 6 years earlier in 1925, the property had been sold to a Miami hotelier named J. Perry Stoltz, who planned to build a 14-story hotel on the site, directly behind the old manor house that now serves as the clubhouse. Construction began in February 1926, and concrete footings were poured, but the project was abandoned just a few months later. Had Stoltz’s plan been completed, the Masters Tournament, as we know it today, may never have existed.

The squares I had asked about in the drawings, after finding some additional documentation, identifed the markings as *"pits, footings, and spoil banks on the partially developed hotel site"*. In the foreground of the first image, you can see the concrete footings, as well as the now famous Augusta National clubhouse in the background, as it appeared in October of 1931. Thank you all for the guesses on what they represented in my previous post! I have attached a few other survey drawings to this post as well that depict the site.

1931 Survey Follow Up Post