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Article: Honoring our origins: rendezvous '08 participants pay homage to the birthplace of the Public Land Survey System.(Surveyors Historical Society)(Conference news)
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If you can survey in Ohio, you can survey anywhere (or so the saying goes). The Surveyors Historical Society (SHS) Surveyors Rendezvous '08 was held Sept. 11-13 in Akron, Ohio, and was jointly sponsored by SHS and the Gathering of Potential Surveyors, a University of Akron student group. The theme of this year's rendezvous was Ohio: Birthplace of the Public Land Survey System, and the focus was on early attempts to perfect the system of survey outlined in the Land Ordinance of 1785.
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The event began on Thursday morning with presentations by Dr. Kevin Kern, Roger Moore and Milton Denny. Kern, professor of history at the University ...
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