One Of Washington's Surveying Tools

Displayed at Karl C. Harrison Museum Of George Washington In Columbiana, Alabama

"Washington...kept a diary not only of all surveys of the tracts and lots made, but also of many curious and interesting circumstances incident to the wild, romantic life which their business required." [Source]

Cross-posted at Relatively Fiction

One Of Washington's Surveying Tools

Artifact Displayed At The Karl C. Harrison Museum Of George Washington

The Earliest Settlers Were Squatters

Poster At The General John A. Logan Museum In Illinois

The American Settlement Of Illinois

"The earliest settlers were squatters, as land sales did not begin until 1813.  Illinois became a state in 1818."

Sign Posted In The General John A. Logan Museum, Murphysboro, Illinois

Saginaw Circa 1917 And Circa 2017

Saginaw (Co.), Michigan, Circa 2017
Marshall Fredericks Museum

Source (Circa 1917)

Concessions To Kent County, Ontario

Lambton County Museum (Lambton, Ontario, Canada):

"For example, concessions 1-4 of the former Sombra Township in Lambton County passed into the control of Gore Township in Kent County during the mid-19th century." [ca 1850?]


From Kentiana at the Electric Scotland website:

"The Gore of Chatham, which was part of Sombra Township, or "Shawanese" Township, was surveyed by Smith in 1820."

Map Of Lake Sandusky Circa 1761

Missouri Historical Society Collections, Volume 4, Issues 2-4:

"Rough copy of a sketch map of Lake Sandusky, made at Detroit, 1761-1763, showing Fort Sandusky...".

Surveyors And The Importance Of Surveys

Albert Gallatin With Surveying Equipment

Surveys are used as a basis for the land descriptions in deeds. A deed is the legal document describing a certain piece of land … So if everyone used a different method of surveying for describing that land, no one would be sure who owned what. [Source or Source]

Surveyor Andrew Ellicott's equipment seen online at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.

Andrew Ellicott's marker, the Ellicott Stone:

Polk County

Source

The Mulberry Phosphate Museum is located in Polk County, Florida.

Fort St. Mark And Vicinity

Source

View From A Scene In The Museum

On The Beach In The St. Mark's Area

Land Patents Online In PA

From the Pennsylvania Historical And Museum Commission:

RG-17

Records of the Land Office

Patent Index, A and AA Series, 1684-1781. (1 volume) {series #17.147} [excerpt below]:

Source

Big Tree Land Owners

Report on the big trees of California, by the United States. Forest Service

Fresno County - Township 13 South, Range 27 East

Sanger Lumber Company [Of Michigan!]

From the Sanger Depot Museum website (embedded link added):

In the midst of a dwindling credit base, the Sanger Lumber Company was sold to an investors group in Michigan led by Thomas Hume in 1905. It was then renamed the Hume Bennett Lumber Company.

The Hume Bennett Lumber Company was mentioned above; see more about that company here.

Lochry's Defeat On A Map

Lochry's Defeat on "The Revolutionary War In The West" map:

Jim's Photo - Kentucky Museum Map

Michigan Maps

What's Cool About Maps from the Michigan Historical Museum:

"Maps have always made faraway places real. The [29] maps in this exhibit are farther away from us in time than in space. They show a familiar place—Michigan—in earlier times, from other perspectives."
"This online minitour of the exhibit features one map from each of seven themes."