RELATED LINKS

Revolutionary War Reenacting

• Umbrella Organizations

  • The Brigade of the American Revolution

  • The Continental Line, Inc.

• Reenacting Units

  • Corps of Sappers & Miners

  • The Augusta County Militia

  • His  Majesty's 17th Regiment of Foot

  • 1st Pennsylvania Batt.

  • 2d Virginia Regiment

• Period Merchants

  • Virginia Public Store

  • Tuckahoe Trading Co.

  • Kings Arms Press

  • Sullivan Press

  • The Silly Sisters

  • Burnley and Trowbridge

  • Najecki Reproductions

  • Military Warehouse

  • Wooded Hamlet

  • Carl & Marcia Giordano

  • Goose Bay Workshops

• Other Sites

  • Rev War Progressive

18th Century Surveying & Military Engineering

• Surveying Instruments (Original & Reproduction)

  • Colonial Instruments (restoration of instruments 1700-1850)....includes links to articles

  • Virtual Museum of Surveying

  • Ames Instrument Company (makers of reproduction surveying compasses)

  • Reproduction Survey Chains: Denny Enterprises, LLC, Milton E. Denny, P.O. Box 2242, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35403, Phone (205) 553-4448, Fax (205) 507-0552 You can view his chains and print out an order form here.

  • Smithsonian- National Museum of America History, Surveying & Geodesy Collection

  • Smithsonian- National Museum of America History, Measuring & Mapping  Collection

  • Webster's Instrument Maker's Database

• Surveying Techniques & History

  • Surveyor's Historical Society

  • A Surveyor for the King by Ron Bailey (Colonial Williamsburg Found.)

  • Mason & Dixon Line Preservation Partnership

  • Southern Nature: Scientific Views of the American South, a virtual exhibition at the American Philosophical Society (portions highlight Thomas Hutchins, Bernard Romans, and others)

  • Website for the book Measuring America

  • History of the Army Corps of Engineers in the Revolutionary War

  • Surveying at Bassett Hall, Williamsburg, Virginia

  • Mapping Virginia: An Exhibit at the Library of Virginia

  • A Survey of the Roads by Christopher Colles, 1789

  • When Land was a Reward, article on Fredericksburg.com

  • American Philosophical Society. Papers from the Symposium "Science, Art, and Knowledge: Practicing Natural History from the Enlightenment to the Twenty-first Century" 22 April 2004. "True North—And Why It Mattered in Eighteenth-Century America" (.pdf) by Deborah Jean Warner.

• Surveying Living History

  • David Manthey on Historical Surveying

  • Wes Stone Living Historian portraying 18th century French & British military engineers, early 19th century architect Robert Mills, and more

  • W. Scott Smith, The Antiquaries, LC - Historical research & consulting

  • The Compleat Reenactor

• Historical Surveying Discussion Groups

  • Surveying History Yahoo!Group

Early 19th Century Surveying & Military Engineering

• Surveying & Mapping Tools of Lewis & Clark (1803-1806)

• U.S. Corps of Topographical Engineers - Living history unit (1812-Civil War)

Related Books for Sale

• Engineers of Independence: A Documentary History of the Army Engineers in the American Revolution, 1775-1783, by Paul K. Walker.  Click here to download a free .pdf version of this book (provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Office of the Historian) 

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Reference & Bibliography Sites

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• The David Library of the American Revolution, Washington Crossing, PA

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