Despite their disparate perspectives, both would soon see the redefinition and reorganization of the landscape by the rectangular survey system. For the indigenous people who first called this land home, the marks cut and burned into the trees represented the impending and permanent loss of that home. For Thomas Jefferson and other leaders of the young United States, this group of men sent to survey the Indiana Territory represented the spread of democracy. For those residents of the Indiana Territory who witnessed this bizarre parade in the fall of 1804, this group represented vastly different futures. Once in a while, they stopped to score a tree, plant a post, and record their progress.
Gardner, “How Did Washington Make His Millions?” Colonial Williamsburg Journal (Winter 2013) accessed Ī small group of men made their way through the thick southern Indiana forest dragging chains in their wake.
“Drawing of George Washington as Surveyor” in Andrew G.
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