Two counties in North Carolina's Piedmont region redrew their border this year to match the one originally established in ...

If we permit our public land to be sold to the highest bidder, we submit to Hamilton’s misguided notion that our country should belong to an aristocratic class instead of "we the people," columnist ...

The Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 provided a structured and orderly process for westward ...

The Palmer Township Planning Commission recommended approval of a new zoning ordinance and map during a special meeting ... Zoning law stipulates how land can be utilized for residential ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...