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Testimony or Trickery
Restoring a lost or obliterated section or quarter corner to its former location by testimony is less common today than it was in the decades after the public land surveys were first completed. A surveyor can, upon sworn testimony from a reliable witness, reestablish a... Read the Article
Explorers, Surveyors and Mappers
For many years, Washington surveyor Denny DeMeyer has included Rudyard Kipling's nudging admonition as a tagline on his e-mail messages. Curious, I asked him where the quote came from. "When very young," he told me, "I remember reading a book about the... Read the Article
Everything is Somewhere: World's Oldest Map
Maps are older than writing and are possibly older than language; certainly it is easier to picture an Australopithecine gent scratching an arrow in the dust, pointing to good hunting grounds, than it is to imagine him giving clear verbal directions - the latter is not so common even today. And most.... Read the Article
An Analysis of GLO Surveys using GPS and GIS
Sheboygan County Wisconsin includes twelve complete survey townships. Four additional survey townships along the county's east border are made fractional by Lake Michigan. Excepting the missing parts of the fractional townships, the county is four townships by four townships... Read the Article
Historical Meridian Stones on Nantucket & Elsewhere
The pair of marble obelisks located in downtown Nantucket and known as "Meridian Stones" is probably the most enigmatic historical monument on Nantucket. The inscriptions engraved on them state: "Northern (Southern) Extremity of the Town's Meridian... Read the Article
Seth Pease 1764-1819
Seth Pease (1764-1819), a native of Connecticut, who trained not only as a surveyor but also as an astronomer, played a significant role in the division and settling of the lands that became public domain after the end of the American Revolution. He surveyed first in... Read the Article
Missouri/Iowa Boundary Line Investigation
The Missouri DNR's Land Survey Program recently selected Midland Surveying Inc. and affiliate Company Midland GIS Solutions of Maryville and St. Joseph, Missouri to perform a boundary line investigation, monumentation search and perpetuation of existing monuments along... Read the Article
First Guide Meridian East
As far as significant monuments go, the GLO limestone located at the First Guide Meridian East with the intersection of the Kansas and Nebraska border ranks very high in significance for those two states. Its importance, however, had largely been lost with the passing of... Read the Article
Fabric of Surveying: Surveying in the Former Kingdom of Hawaii
What is now the 50th State was once the Kingdom of Hawaii. Archaeological studies reveal that the Hawaiian islands have been inhabited since about 400 A.D., having been populated by migrating Polynesians from the western Pacific Ocean. After centuries of... Read the Article
Seth Pease 1764-1819 - Part 1
Seth Pease (1764-1819) was among the most distinguished of the early American surveyors, for he had the additional skills of a professional astronomer as well as a surveyor. Born in 1764 in Suffield, Connecticut, he was the fifth of the eleven children of the shoemaker... Read the Article
A Gift from George Washington
George Washington's activities as a plantation owner, military superior and statesman are well documented, however, little is known about George Washington the surveyor. George's father, Augustine Washington, died in 1743 when... Read the Article
Mapping and Charting for the Greatest Collaborative Project Ever
On the cold grey morning of the 6th of June 1944 the greatest armada that the world has ever seen slowly plowed its way toward the heavily defended beaches of Normandy. Known universally as D-Day, Operation Overlord, as it was then called, was an event that..." Read the Article
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