Field notebooks of the State Town Boundary Survey, 1885-1941 (bulk 1885-1900).

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Field notebooks of the State Town Boundary Survey, 1885-1941 (bulk 1885-1900).

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To establish accurate Massachusetts town boundaries, beginning in 1885 the Topographical Survey Commission, in conjunction with the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, sent out field teams to establish and describe triangulation stations and to set monuments designating boundary lines. These notebooks contain data recorded by such survey teams, for the commission, for the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners, which took over the survey in 1901 and completed it in 1914, and beyond that date, for agencies succeeding the board in its responsibility for state surveying: the Commission on Waterways and Public Lands, in 1916; the Division of Waterways and Public Lands of the Department of Public Works, in 1919; the Department of Public Works as a whole, in 1927; and the department's Division of Waterways, in 1938.

16.25 cubic ft. (13 record center cartons)

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