Gateway to the Northwest

Columbiana County · Harvey Avenue (OH 39), East Liverpool, OH, 43920 -- At the Ohio-Pennsylvania border

Side A: Near this site on Sept. 30, 1785, Thomas Hutchins, first Geographer of the United States, drove a stake: This was the “Point of Beginning” of the Geographer’s Line for the survey of the first “Seven Ranges” of six-mile square townships in compliance with the Federal Land Ordinance of 1785. This survey served as a prototype for most of the western United States (except Texas) and many countries of the world. Side B: Same

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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