There is proof that SMC stands for Special Meandering Corner. The King County Archives has the original land survey notes dated July and August 1902. The notes are as John Taylor, a former Weyerhaeuser employee from a family of North Bend pioneers, remembered from almost 35 years ago: The original survey crew established a Special Meandering Corner on the lake shore. In this case the crew chief inscribed S.M.C. on a rock 18" 14" 5" was 12" the ground and referenced it with two Bearing Trees (BT's) each likewise inscribed with S.M.C.