The ELLICOTT LINE, the western border of Pennsylvania and its border with Ohio, is a famous demarcation between older colonial land grants and the newer land allotments following the Revolution. It ...

Last week began the topic of researching land ownership by looking at the legal description of land contained in deeds. Genealogists will often do this in order to try and locate the land that once ...

Aspen’s streets are mostly a well-spaced rectangular grid. That is not a coincidence. You must go back to Thomas Jefferson to understand how we got here. You may have heard of either the Rectangular ...