Beginning Point of the U.S. Public Land Survey
- Beginning Point of the U.S. Public Land Survey
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U.S. Public Land Survey
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location= East Liverpool, Ohio
lat_degrees = 40
lat_minutes = 38
lat_seconds = 32.61
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 80
long_minutes = 31
long_seconds = 9.76
long_direction = W
locmapin = Ohio
area =
built =1786
architect=
architecture=
designated= June 23, 1965[cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=441&ResourceType=Site]
title=Beginning Point of the U.S. Public Land Survey |accessdate=2007-11-08|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = October 15, 1966[cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|accessdate=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service] ]
governing_body = Local
refnum=66000606
Beginning Point of the U.S. Public Land Survey is a location at the Ohio/Pennsylvania border, on the north side of the Ohio River. It is near the three-way intersection of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and the northern tip of West Virginia (which is out in the middle of the Ohio River). It is significant as being the point from which the Public Land Survey System was performed, starting in 1785, which would open what was then the Northwest Territory for settlement. The survey was "the first mathematically designed system and nationally conducted cadastrial survey in any modern country" and is "an object of study by public officials of foreign countries as a basis for land reform."
It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965.[citation|title=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/66000606.pdf National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Beginning Point / Beginning Point of the U.S. Public Land Survey] |511 KB|date=December 27, 1974 |author=Joseph S. Mendinghall |publisher=National Park Service] ]The area that is landmarked includes a part of Ohio and a part of Pennsylvania. A plaque at the site describes that the true starting point was 1,112 feet further south, a location now covered by water behind a dam in the township of East Liverpool, Ohio. The commemorative site is located about 2 miles east of the center of East Liverpool on Ohio State Route 39.
ee also
*Beginning Point of the Louisiana Purchase Survey
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