Small Mark, Big Meaning: How Survey Monuments Carry Boundaries Through Time
A brass disk, stone, pipe, or driven rod may look small, but its record can preserve a boundary or geodetic position across generations.
Surveying History
The history of land surveying, geodesy, datums, mapping, and measurement.
Lines Across a Young Nation: How the Rectangular Survey Organized the American West
How the Land Ordinance of 1785, field crews, monuments, and public records transformed a geometric idea into the framework of the American landscape.