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Surveying  Fact:
President Abraham Lincoln was a professional surveyor. His career as a surveyor lasted only a few years. His projects included government surveys, road surveys, town lots, and private surveys. Financially, there were difficulties and at one point his equipment was sold at auction to satisfy a debt. A farmer named John Short bought the items for $120 and returned them to Lincoln.
The instruments passed through several owners and are now on display at "Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site".
 

Surveying Fact
Did you know that three of the four presidents immortalized on Mt. Rushmore were surveyors?! It's true! George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln were all professional land surveyors.
 

 

Abraham Lincoln

Henry David Thoreau

 

George Washington

Daniel Boone

Portrait of Daniel Boone: Frontiersman of early America

 

Thomas Jefferson

James Cooke
 
 
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