Michigan was vast, forested and swampy with no roads, no GPS and no easy ways for the surveyors to get where they were going. Life for a surveyor back in those days was not one of luxury. The posts – known as monuments – would be the basis for documenting ownership of land and establishing cities and villages, roads, streets, bridges and the boundaries of public and private lands. Congress established a General Land Office and created the Public Land Survey System.Įarly land surveyors systematically divided Michigan into a grid of 1-mile squares, marked with wooden corner posts at half-mile intervals, following a north-south meridian, an east-west baseline, township lines, range lines and section lines. These road and street names refer all the way back to the early 1800s, when the U.S. Share or view as webpage | Update preferences
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