A federal agency is warning a New Jersey township that its plan to seize and redevelop a 175-year-old family farm for affordable housing may violate federal law. The U.S. Department of Agriculture ...

In the Land Ordinance of 1785, ... An 1863 map shows the Mississippi River from its junction with the Ohio River at Cairo, Illinois, to its conclusion in the Gulf of Mexico.

To address these issues, the “Federal” government declared that the land belonged to the United States, and they introduced the Land Ordinance of 1785. This landmark legislation aimed to create an ...

Thomas Jefferson’s land ordinance of 1785 laid out the as-yet-unconquered land to the west in perfect grids to make it easier to sell plots to farmers, and fund the young government. This logic ...

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 common schools, and ...

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 ...

In a little side office was a huge map of their part of Sunflower County. ... Thomas Jefferson wrote a law that would pass Congress as the Land Ordinance of 1785. His goal was simple.

The formation of Iowa’s counties was heavily influenced by the Land Ordinance of 1785, ... This 1855 map of Iowa shows Bancroft County along the state's northern border.

Thomas Jefferson's Land Ordinance of 1785 called for marking the untamed western territories, including Michigan, in a uniform way for land sales and private ownership — 6-mile-by-6-mile squares ...

They passed the Land Ordinance of 1784, which set up a process to divide the Northwest Territory into new states, followed by the Land Ordinance of 1785 to establish a system to survey the land ...

Ann Besch noted that through the Land Ordinance of 1785, the U.S. government established a system by which territory outside the current 13 states could be mapped, divided and sold to settlers and ...