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Annual Report Of The Surveyor General Of The Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania For The Year Ending November 30, 1866

Annual Report Of The Surveyor General Of The Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania For The Year Ending November 30, 1866

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General ReferenceGeneral SociologyRegional: West

ISBN10: 9354487459
ISBN13: 9789354487453
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 15 2021
Pages: 30
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.06 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Land, law, and power meet in this rare window onto post-Civil War Pennsylvania. Issued by the Surveyor General at the close of 1866, this official government report traces how the Commonwealth managed and measured its lands at a moment of change. Every line is primary evidence. From the workings of the state land office records to the oversight of US public land surveys and local boundaries, the Annual Report of the Surveyor General of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania captures the mechanics of public land administration Pennsylvania depended on for settlement, taxation, growth, and the era's infrastructure and internal improvements. Researchers engaged in American surveying history studies or 1860s Pennsylvania government records will find a detailed account of townships, tracts, and titles. For family historians, this historical land survey report is also a resource for genealogy research, anchoring names and places within the official register of the Commonwealth and giving texture to post civil war Pennsylvania. As a primary source for historians of politics, industry, and land policy, this Pennsylvania Surveyor General annual offers a grounded view of how land shaped opportunity and power. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure. Presented in a modern edition that preserves the spirit of the original, it invites casual readers, local-history enthusiasts, and archivists to handle a survivor of the age of us public land surveys and the making of modern Pennsylvania.

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