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Solid brass Vernier transit on walnut tripod. Albert D. Searl used this transit to survey town sites in Kansas Territory. He came to Kansas from Massachusetts in 1854. He apparently was associated with S.C. Pomeroy, agent for the New England Emigrant Aid Company that organized antislavery settlements in the territory. Searl laid out the city limits and streets of Lawrence, Kansas, in September 1854, and three months later conducted the first regular survey of Topeka. Later he surveyed Manhattan, Osawatomie, Burlington, El Dorado, and other Kansas towns.
Creator: Phelps & Gurley
Date: between 1845 and 1851
Item Number: 209887
Call Number: 1903.36.1
KSHS Identifier: 1903.36.1
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Surveyors
Collections - Museum
Community Life - Town development
Date - 1840s
Date - 1854-1860
Military - Wars - Bleeding Kansas
Objects and Artifacts - Tools & Equipment for Science & Technology - Surveying & Navigational - Transit
Places - Cities and towns - Burlington
Places - Cities and towns - Lawrence
Places - Cities and towns - Manhattan
Places - Cities and towns - Osawatomie
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Coffey
Places - Counties - Douglas
Places - Counties - Miami
Places - Counties - Riley
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Type of Material - Objects and Artifacts
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