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K A Parsons wrote:
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> Hello all,
>
> A colleague and I need your assistance.  We have a graduate student working
> on her Ph.D. in Land Architecture and her topic, in a nutshell, is how the
> United States was settled using maps to show the progression.  She is
> investigating how explorers used trails to travel, where traders and armed
> forces located posts and forts, and which posts and forts become towns, etc.
> She will then show how Iowa was settled using similar ideas.
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> Her first question to us is that she needs information about the Jefferson
> Grid.  When asking for more information we learned that the phase Jefferson
> Gris is not used very often.  However, she indicated that the National Land
> Survey is its base.  Can any of you help us to locate information about the
> grid.
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> Her second request concerns maps showing the progression of human settlement
> across the country, before and after, the National Land Survey.
> Specifically she wants maps showing old trails, Indian settlements,
> trading posts, forts and early communities.  Any ideas of maps, textual
> information and other stuff to help her?
>
> Can any of you help?  Any and all would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you
> in advance.
>
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> Kathy A. Parsons                Voice:  515-294-7886
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> Ames, IA  50011Was not Jefferson the "author" of the Northwest Ordinance, in which the
Public Land Survey system was applied for the first time?  I have not
come across the term Jefferson Grid, but is it not reasonable to connect
the two?
Caveat:  This is based on intuition, not research.