Author: Fred Roeder, LS

Maps have always been associated with military intelligence and map making has been high on the list of required skills in the officer…

The first half of this article was published in the February 1997 issue of BENCHMARKS under the title: The Tunnel of Eupalinos, a…

In the April 1991 issue of BENCHMARKS I wrote about the tunnel of Eupalinos on the island of Samos. Recently I have been…

In August I traveled to Flagstaff where the Arizona surveyors had invited me to speak about Spanish land grants. The Arizona grants were…

In the September issue of BENCHMARKS I wrote about HR 1823, the proposed "Guadalupe Hidalgo Land Claims Act of 2001". It is a…

The Monastery of Santa Clara in the old Castilian market town of Tordesillas was originally built as a royal palace. Today, its Gothic…

The tangle of crooked, narrow streets and romantic nooks in the historic center of most German cities has always both enchanted and perplexed…

The Surveyors To praise surveyors I was never timid, I scan the verses of the Iliad, And find Athena at a bound’ry limit…

The U.S. Land Office was an intensely political one, and the office of surveyor general was so important, that when President Cleveland in…