Thursday, January 17, 2008

The Great Survey of Western New York

In 1797, the Holland Land Company, a group of six Dutch banks, hired Joseph Ellicott to survey their purchase of 3.3 million acres of wild land west of the Genesee River in New York State. This podcast is a brief history of the survey.

Click here to listen



http://www.hollandlandoffice.com/podcasts/greatsurvey.mp3

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