Papers, 1874-1885.

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Papers, 1874-1885.

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This collection contains correspondence and expense reports relating to the professional activities of Carl Schenk. The expense reports date from Schenk's years with the Kentucky Geological Survey. The correspondence generally concerns the conduct of the geodetic survey. One letter discusses a German settlement in western Kentucky and land opportunities across the state. There is also a map of Cumberland County, Kentucky drawn for the geological survey.

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Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives, Kentucky State Archives

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Schenk, Carl.

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Biographical note: Carl Schenk, a native of Germany, was born about 1840. He graduated from the Polytechnicum in Darmstadt. Schenk emigrated to the United States and settled in Newport, Kentucky. He went to work for the Kentucky Geological Survey in the 1870s under Nathaniel Southgate Shaler. Shaler recommended Schenk for his next post as surveyor with the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, which Schenk took in 1879. Schenk worked in neighboring states as well as in Kentucky while surveyin...

U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey

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Drawn by R.D. Cutts. From the description of Pulgas base : map, 1854. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122398096 Historical Background The story of the Union Pacific Railroad's involvement with oil and the Tidelands goes back to at least 1911 when the State of California granted the City of Long Beach its tidelands properties for development of commerce, navigation, fisheries, and recreation under a public trust doctine, me...

Kentucky Geological Survey

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