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Article: Professional history.(guesteditor)(surveying history)
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- December 1, 2006
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As land surveyors, we are often faced with the need to know something about the history of our profession, the instruments once used, the surveyors who once used them and certainly the history of the land we have been hired to survey. Yet how far back must our knowledge extend?
Property ownership and the need for land measurements to protect owners' rights have very early beginnings. The Bible contains references to land boundaries in the Old Testament, including a famous reference to land boundary markers in Deuteronomy 19:14, "Do not move your neighbor's boundary stone set up by your predecessors in the inheritance you receive in the land."
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