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Land Surveyors: Our Place in History

Editor’s Note: Thank you to John S. Rogers, Arizona Surveying, Inc., Flagstaff, AZ, for his comprehensive thoughts on the prominent role our scientific profession has played throughout the ages. I suspect, or certainly hope, that all professional land surveyors across the country, and our counterparts across the world, have a good understanding of many of the...

Feature: Benjamin Banneker

Benjamin Banneker is arguably the most prominent figure in Baltimore area land survey history, and this biography details some of its highlights. By Eddie Glawe Early Life This dramatic story begins with Molly Welsh (may have been Walsh), Benjamin’s grandmother, a young servant or milk maid in England. As she was doing her work, a...