Order Upon the Land: The U.S. Rectangular Land Survey and the Upper Mississippi CountryOxford University Press, 1976 - 268 strani This book examines the how the U.S. rectangular survey, a system which organizes land into six-by-six mile townships divided into thirty-six sections of one square mile each, affected the settlement landscape of rural America, and more specifically the Upper Mississippi Hill Country. |
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Setting and Direction | 3 |
Traditions of Land Assignment | 21 |
New Land Assignment Through Land Ordinances | 37 |
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