Famous Surveyors

Henry David Thoreau :

He saw surveying as an opportunity to pursue his real interest: observing the natural world around him. “Surveying,” he writes in the Journal, “seems a noble employment which brings you within hearing of [the birds]” (29 April 1856).

Other Famous Surveyors:

• George Washington
• Thomas Jefferson
• Abraham Lincoln
• Charles Mason & Jeremiah Dixon (Mason-Dixon Line)
• Merriwether Lewis and William Clark (Lewis & Clark Expedition initiated by Thomas Jefferson)