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: Public Land Survey System
The rectangular system of public-land surveys, townships, sections, and ranges in the United States.
People of Surveying
The Surveyors of the Northwest: Measuring the First Public Lands
The Seven Ranges, Thomas Hutchins, and the field crews who turned the Land Ordinance of 1785 into monuments, notes, and a lasting national survey system.
Land & Boundaries
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.