 In this situation, the 1960 easement was apparently only on file in the SCDOT records vault, and not at the Abbeville County courthouse.In the early 2000s, the state of South Carolina began widening Highway 72 from the Georgia state line to just east of Abbeville.Reportedly, the state determined in late 2003 that it would need to enter its easement on a strip of the Bixbys' land approximately ten feet in length to construct the project.