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Author : Benjamin Harrison Pershing
Release : 1937
Genre : Ohio
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Book Synopsis A surveyor on the Seven ranges by : Benjamin Harrison Pershing
Download or read book A surveyor on the Seven ranges written by Benjamin Harrison Pershing. This book was released on 1937. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Will Hoyt
Release : 2021-03-01
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis The Seven Ranges by : Will Hoyt
Download or read book The Seven Ranges written by Will Hoyt. This book was released on 2021-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Surveyor-General Thomas Hutchins drove a stake into the ground to mark a “point of beginning” for the 1785 establishment of Seven Ranges of townships on the west bank of the Ohio River, he had to have sensed that he was initiating something larger than a survey. After all, he was working for the newly formed United States, and the purpose of his work was to impose a grid of ideal squares on hill country to make it ready for sale—something that had never been done before. But Hutchins couldn’t by any stretch of the imagination have known that the public survey system he was testing would soon extend all the way to the Pacific or that the land on which he worked would soon become the staging ground for other, similarly revolutionary innovations like strip mining, Pentecostalism, the gaming industry, and tools for emancipating multi-national corporations. In this book, Will Hoyt details the arrival and eventual impact of these eastern Ohio products, and by framing the story of their development within the story of his own decision to move from California to eastern Ohio, he secures a glimpse of our country’s DNA. Readers will close this book with a firm grasp of three things: the grandeur of the American project, the extent to which that project is now at risk, and what we all must do to ensure its survival.
Author : William David Pattison
Release : 1959
Genre : Ohio
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Book Synopsis The Survey of the Seven Ranges by : William David Pattison
Download or read book The Survey of the Seven Ranges written by William David Pattison. This book was released on 1959. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C. Albert White
Release : 1983
Genre : Surveying
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Book Synopsis A History of the Rectangular Survey System by : C. Albert White
Download or read book A History of the Rectangular Survey System written by C. Albert White. This book was released on 1983. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andro Linklater
Release : 2003-09-30
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Measuring America by : Andro Linklater
Download or read book Measuring America written by Andro Linklater. This book was released on 2003-09-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1790, America was in enormous debt, having depleted what little money and supplies the country had during its victorious fight for independence. Before the nation's greatest asset, the land west of the Ohio River, could be sold it had to be measured out and mapped. And before that could be done, a uniform set of measurements had to be chosen for the new republic out of the morass of roughly 100,000 different units that were in use in daily life. Measuring America tells the fascinating story of how we ultimately gained the American Customary System—the last traditional system in the world—and how one man's surveying chain indelibly imprinted its dimensions on the land, on cities, and on our culture from coast to coast.
