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Nature Rambles | Lines of our landscape laid out long ago
MIKE MILLER In the chilly wintertime of 1819, a crew of surveyors was crisscrossing the hills along the bluffs of the Illinois River. They were component of the General Land Office’s new initiative to deploy a square-grid geographic identification procedure. This method included surveyors producing 1-mile squares, called “Sections” all across the state. A team of 36 sections would collectively make up a “Township.” In all, surveyors laid out close to 60,000 sections and documented the spots of each and every of these portion corners. This system started out in 1804 and took surveyors until finally 1843 to end surveying the point out. If you have walked any of the…
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