All posts by Joe Knetsch, Lamar Evers, and Robert Beck

History Corner: A New Prime Meridian Marker for Florida

If surveyors share one characteristic in general it is their perseverance in the face of adversity. In setting the initial points for the beginnings of surveys in the territories and states, many surveyors suffered hardships that only one who reads the field notes understands. The threat of annihilation from hostile natives, the dread of Yellow...