Carl Schenk papers, 1874-1885.

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Carl Schenk papers, 1874-1885.

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This collection contains expense reports dated 1874-1880 related to the professional activities of Carl Schenk while working with the Kentucky Geological Survey. The correspondence, dated 1881-1885 concerns the conduct of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. One letter dated 16 February 1881 discusses a German settlement in western Kentucky and land opportunities across the state.

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Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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Kentucky Geological Survey

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Schenk, Carl, b. ca. 1840.

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Schenk, a native of Germany, was born about 1840. He graduated from the Polytechnicum in Darmstadt. Schenk settled in Newport, Kentucky after emigrating to the United States. He went to work for the Kentucky Geological Survey in the 1870s when Nathaniel Southgate Shaler, a native of Newport, directed the project. Shaler recommended Schenk for his next post, surveyor with the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, which Schenk took in 1879. Schenk worked in neighboring states as well as in Kentucky whil...

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...