National Historic Landmark -Beginning U.S. Public Land Survey

National Historic Landmark -Beginning Point of the U.S. Public Land Survey

This is the point from which a rectangular-grid land survey system was established under the Ordinance of 1785, which provided for administration and subdivision of land in the Old ...

Battle's Beginning ... and End

Wilson's Creek

This Northern spur of Bloody Hill saw the beginning and end of the battle. In the days proceeding the fight, the field before you was the camp of the 1,200 cavalrymen of Colonel James Cawthorne's Missouri State Guard Brigade. ...

A Beginning . . .

Lytle Park Series

The “Little Wilderness” of the 1700's became Lytle Square in 1809 and the setting for this brick mansion of General William H. Lytle, first Surveyor-General of the Northwest Territory and the State of Ohio. The home was razed ...

Beginning Point of the U. S. Public Land Survey

West Side:Ohio1112 feet South of this spot was the "Point of beginning" for surveying the public lands of the United States. There, on September 30, 1785, Thomas Hutchins, first Geographer of the United States, began the Geographers Line of the ...