Point of Beginning of the Public Land Surveys of the Sixth Principal Meridian
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Point of Beginning, Public Land Surveys of Sixth Principal Meridian
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of May 30, 1854 created the territories of Nebraska and Kansas, which had to be surveyed before settlement could proceed. In November 1854, Captain Thomas J. Lee of the U.S. Army Topographic Engineers determined the Fortieth…