The first half of this article was published in the February 1997 issue of BENCHMARKS under the title: The Tunnel of Eupalinos, a…
Author: Fred Roeder, LS
The Tunnel of Eupalinos Revisited
In the April 1991 issue of BENCHMARKS I wrote about the tunnel of Eupalinos on the island of Samos. Recently I have been…
Tumacacori
In August I traveled to Flagstaff where the Arizona surveyors had invited me to speak about Spanish land grants. The Arizona grants were…
Land Grant Trilogy
In the September issue of BENCHMARKS I wrote about HR 1823, the proposed "Guadalupe Hidalgo Land Claims Act of 2001". It is a…
The Treaty of Tordesillas
The Monastery of Santa Clara in the old Castilian market town of Tordesillas was originally built as a royal palace. Today, its Gothic…
Will Tipton of the Spanish Archives
In New Mexico as well as in Arizona the name of Will Tipton is inextricable linked to investigations of Spanish and Mexican land…
Was Tangletown Surveyed?
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
The Surveyors To praise surveyors I was never timid, I scan the verses of the Iliad, And find Athena at a bound’ry limit…
Power, Prestige, and Politics – The Sixteen Surveyors General of New Mexico
The U.S. Land Office was an intensely political one, and the office of surveyor general was so important, that when President Cleveland in…
Santa Fe on Spanish Maps
Note: The coordinates of the NE corner of the plaza in Santa Fe, as scaled by me from a 7 1/2 min. quad…