Start of the GLO in the Mississippi Territory

Course Title: Start of the GLO in the Mississippi Territory

3 Professional Development Hours (PDHs)

Approved for Alabama, Florida, and Tennessee.

After registering, you will receive an email with instructions for watching the recording and submitting to receive your PDH Certificate. 

Presented by Milton Denny

How We Became the States of Mississippi and Alabama

Description: From the first Land Office in Natchez, to running of the Washington, St. Stevens, and Huntsville Meridian’s. The people involved and the instructions and methods used for doing the work. First instructions used in the lower part of Alabama before Statehood of Alabama, and how this may affect your work today.

Running the State line between Mississippi and Alabama by John Coffee and Thomas Freeman that made statehood possible. Official act by GLO before statehood was to run boundaries dividing states into equal areas. How Freeman ran Meridians with sextant for location. How accurate was the work and how do I find the records today. Update on ASPLS monumentation of state corners.

Speaker Bio: Milton E. Denny is a registered surveyor in six states, and a veteran of land surveying, aerial mapping and GIS. His special interest has always been in project development and management of firms. He is a past president of the Alabama Society of Professional Land Surveyors, a Fellow in the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping and served for many years on the Board of Direction. Mr. Denny is the author of many manuals dealing with surveying, mapping and GIS. He is a nationally known speaker and lecturer on these subjects and wrote a column called “The Business Side” for a trade magazine for many years. He was instrumental in the starting of a new member organization in the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping called the “Geographic and Land Information Society”.