This region with one of the best known names on Earth is also one of the least understood. Could their ancestral way of life ...

The Senate proposal, which could greatly affect outdoor recreation in the West, is facing strong pushback from ...

Efforts to save a 175-year-old New Jersey family farm have escalated, drawing support from President Donald Trump’s administration as the land faces possible seizure for affordable housing. For months ...

The sale of public lands as part of Trump's tax bill has been a divisive measure, and a proposal to sell around 500,000 acres ...

Ashleigh Coleman In the Land Ordinance of 1785, Jefferson came up with a plan ... from which the river’s great wilderness would be tamed into a map. Brown and Robbins assembled teams of men ...

and they introduced the Land Ordinance of 1785. This landmark legislation aimed to create an organized and systematic approach to surveying and distributing land in the western territories. The ...

Thomas Jefferson’s land ordinance of 1785 laid out the as-yet-unconquered ... the street network before they can get around without a map. Chicago or New York taxi drivers can achieve much ...

A History of Aid. If Congress passes the bill, it will be a momentous landmark in a history of federal aid to education reaching back to the Land Ordinance of 1785, which gave national land for ...

UPPER NAZARETH TWP., Pa. - Upper Nazareth Township’s board of supervisors will consider a new zoning ordinance and zoning map at a public hearing Wednesday night. A zoning ordinance governs how ...

It was the only piece of dirt on the map without a name. Thomas Jefferson wrote a law that would pass Congress as the Land Ordinance of 1785. His goal was simple. He wanted the empty open space of ...

If you look at a map of Iowa, you’ll notice a relatively ... of Iowa’s counties was heavily influenced by the Land Ordinance of 1785, which guided the divvying up of land and formation of ...

Thomas Jefferson's Land Ordinance of 1785 called for marking the untamed ... the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan." But the map relied on for years, drawn by John Mitchell, was more ...