This shot by the acclaimed photographer, taken from a helicopter, is part of a new exhibition of his work at New York City's ...

Jefferson's Land Ordinance of 1785 was designed to encourage agrarian land use while guaranteeing income for the fledgling government from tax revenue.

Ellicott’s crew returned in 1785 to run the meridian line, the western Pennsylvania borderline (80°31'12" W) north ... from its original 13 colonies, a system was needed to identify who owned what ...

Under the Land Ordinance of 1785, federal land in the Northwest Territory was divided into townships, which were then subdivided into 36 sections each, for sale to settlers.

This led to the creation of the Land Ordinance of 1785, funding surveys, selling land and encouraging the settlement of township plats. Two years later, ...

The first sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) began with the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787.The Ordinance of 1875 provided that western lands were to be surveyed and divided ...

The Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 established the colonial system that lay the foundation for a trans-continental American empire.

Using one square mile as a metric isn’t an arbitrary measurement. It actually dates back to the late 1700s when the United States was pushing further westward and the Manifest Destiny was ...

But it did have a lot of land north and west of the Ohio River. TheLand Ordinance of 1785 set forth a way to measure the new country and the Ordinance of 1787 provided a formof government.

Even before the Constitution was ratified, the Confederation Congress enacted the Land Ordinance of 1785, which required newly established townships in territories ceded by the British to devote a ...

There is no geophysical logic to the sharp partition in the middle of this picture. A US federal act, the Land Ordinance of 1785, divided North America’s vast western territories into ...