In response to the pleas from white Baltimoreans fearful of what the New York Times labeled “the Negro Invasion,” the city ...

The Lehigh Valley Planning Commission Comprehensive Planning Committee advanced a borough's comprehensive zoning ordinance map update Tuesday ... a strategic way to increase land use regulatory ...

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 ...

This was known as the Land Ordinance of 1785. This ordinance dictated and explained the way land west of the Ohio was to be surveyed and broken into lots, sections, townships and ranges.

This was known as the Land Ordinance of 1785. This ordinance dictated and explained the way land west of the Ohio was to be surveyed and broken into lots, sections, townships and ranges. It is ...

According to Barlow, the patriots’ faith was well-founded, because in the Land Ordinance of 1785, one section of each township was ... Fundraising efforts will include the sale of a frameable map ...

Thomas Jefferson led the committee behind the Land Ordinance Act of 1785, which provided the basis for organizing the territories north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi. This law ...

the U.S. government implemented the Rectangular Survey System via the Land Ordinance of 1785. Stanford highlighted the Ohio Company of Associates, which purchased 1.5 million acres in Ohio for ...

STARKVILLE – After issuing a lease that ran afoul of the city’s zoning laws, Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District is sorting through all its 16th Section properties and revamping ...

As the map shows, nearly every right-of-way in ... commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Land Ordinance of 1785. Lynden Heritage Museum displays plaques about historic surveyors and 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 ...

A section of 1918 map of West Virginia Railroads represents part of ... Congress was forced to step in and promised to settle the boundary and land dispute after the war. In 1785, the issue was ...