The Seven Ranges

by Will Hoyt

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1725287358
• ISBN13: 9781725287358
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Front Porch Republic Books
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"