American Land Surveying has a grand and sometimes tumultuous history. Bold personalities have been attracted to the work. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Daniel Boone, Abraham Lincoln, Henry David Thoreau all worked as surveyors. Theirs were often the original footsteps which surveyors for generations afterward have retraced. This interactive online course traces that history from Ancient days to today.
This course also covers early surveying instruments and texts, metes and bounds descriptions, forms of monumentation, Federal and State surveyor regulations, differences between civil engineers' surveys and surveys by boundary surveyors, and an overview of land surveying university programs, state licensure and accreditation.
