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Author | : Will Hoyt |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2021-03-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1725287358 |
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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 had never been done before. But Hutchins couldn’t by any stretch of the imagination have known that the public survey system he was testing would soon extend all the way to the Pacific or that the land on which he worked would soon become the staging ground for other, similarly revolutionary innovations like strip mining, Pentecostalism, the gaming industry, and tools for emancipating multi-national corporations. In this book, Will Hoyt details the arrival and eventual impact of these eastern Ohio products, and by framing the story of their development within the story of his own decision to move from California to eastern Ohio, he secures a glimpse of our country’s DNA. Readers will close this book with a firm grasp of three things: the grandeur of the American project, the extent to which that project is now at risk, and what we all must do to ensure its survival.
Author | : Will Hoyt |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2021-03-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1725287374 |
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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 had never been done before. But Hutchins couldn't by any stretch of the imagination have known that the public survey system he was testing would soon extend all the way to the Pacific or that the land on which he worked would soon become the staging ground for other, similarly revolutionary innovations like strip mining, Pentecostalism, the gaming industry, and tools for emancipating multi-national corporations. In this book, Will Hoyt details the arrival and eventual impact of these eastern Ohio products, and by framing the story of their development within the story of his own decision to move from California to eastern Ohio, he secures a glimpse of our country's DNA. Readers will close this book with a firm grasp of three things: the grandeur of the American project, the extent to which that project is now at risk, and what we all must do to ensure its survival.
Author | : Stefan Dech |
Publisher | : Harry N Abrams Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2005-10 |
Genre | : Nature |
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Collects images of Earth's mountain ranges in views taken from fifteen to five hundred miles above the planet, revealing complete mountain ranges unobstructed by barriers such as haze, clouds, and light refraction.
Author | : Andro Linklater |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2003-09-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0452284597 |
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In 1790, America was in enormous debt, having depleted what little money and supplies the country had during its victorious fight for independence. Before the nation's greatest asset, the land west of the Ohio River, could be sold it had to be measured out and mapped. And before that could be done, a uniform set of measurements had to be chosen for the new republic out of the morass of roughly 100,000 different units that were in use in daily life. Measuring America tells the fascinating story of how we ultimately gained the American Customary System—the last traditional system in the world—and how one man's surveying chain indelibly imprinted its dimensions on the land, on cities, and on our culture from coast to coast.
Author | : C. Albert White |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 794 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Government publications |
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Download A History of the Rectangular Survey System Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Total Pages | : 1028 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Ohio |
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Download Ohio Archæological and Historical Quarterly Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 952 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Wood County (Ohio) |
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Author | : Albion Morris Dyer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Land grants |
ISBN | : |
Download First Ownership of Ohio Lands Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Tom Lopez |
Publisher | : Climbing Guides |
Total Pages | : 397 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780898866087 |
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* The most-referenced guidebook for Idaho climbers * Includes the trails, approaches, and access information for Idaho's peaks Whether it's a technical ascent of the great west wall of Elephants Perch or a scramble to the summit of 12,662-foot Mount Borah, here's your key to high adventure in Idaho. At each new printing, Tom Lopez has updated and expanded his encyclopedic guide to more than 800 summits. All the features that made the first edition so popular are here -- detailed route descriptions, difficulty ratings, summit heights, access information to hundreds of roads and trails, extensive sections on historyand geology, and much, much more. You won't find a more thorough guide anywhere! Learn more about climbing in Idaho by visiting the author's website:www.idahoaclimbingguide.com.
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Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Land grants |
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