People of Surveying
From Compass to White House: George Washington and Abraham Lincoln as Surveyors
A factual look at the real surveying work of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, the records they left, and the land systems in which they worked.
From the Index
Tag: Colonial Surveys
Reports, histories, and working notes filed under this subject.
Measuring the World
A History of Datums in America, Part 1: From Colonial Surveys to NAD 27 and NGVD 29
From colonial metes-and-bounds surveys and Mason and Dixon to the Coast Survey, U.S. Standard Datum, NAD 27, State Plane coordinates, and NGVD 29.