Meadows Land Surveying, PLLC

03/15/2026

Day 1 - George Washington the Surveyor

Before becoming the first President of the United States, George Washington worked as a professional land surveyor.

At just 17 years old, Washington was appointed Surveyor of Culpeper County, Virginia. His early career surveying the Shenandoah Valley helped him develop skills in navigation, leadership, and frontier exploration that would later prove invaluable during the Revolutionary War.

Surveying helped shape the man who helped shape the nation.

01/11/2022

in 1757—or 1755—George Washington's right-hand man, Alexander Hamilton was born! (Raise a glass! 🍺)

Learn more about the ten-dollar Founding Father here: https://bit.ly/2AQUwUU

(Image Credits)
Alexander Hamilton, John Trumbull, ca. 1806. Andrew W. Mellon Collection [1940.1.8]. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

12/19/2021

Map makers before the invention of AutoCAD or GIS software, 1950s.

07/03/2021

At 92 years old, Howard Johnston, P.L.S., is the oldest serving elected official in the Pendleton County, Kentucky, and has completed over 2,000 surveys in his 54 years of surveying. He’s not done yet. Read more of Johnston’s remarkable surveying story with POB Online. https://bit.ly/3qLQzGF

06/11/2021

Nice Stone corner find located along the Gilmer/Ritchie County line!!

05/04/2021

A 202 year old boundary monument!! Survives two World Wars only to be taken out by an annoyed farmer! 😂😂

The farmer moved the large stone about 7.5 feet — into France.

03/25/2021

The Mason-Dixon Line originated in 1763 to settle a boundary dispute between the colonies of Pennsylvania and Maryland along the 39 degree and 43 minute latitude. Completed in 1767, stones were placed with the Pennsylvania and Maryland crests on each side to mark the line.

03/22/2021

Today kicks off National Surveyors Week so to kick things off on this beautiful Sunday I wanted to post some of my favorite biblical references to surveying:

Proverbs 22:28
Remove not the ancient landmark, Which thy fathers have set.

Deuteronomy 19:14
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set, in thine inheritance which thou shalt inherit, in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess it.

Deuteronomy 27:17
Cursed be he that removeth his neighbor's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Job 24:2
Some remove the landmarks; They seize and devour flocks.

Zechariah 2:1-2
I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand. Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, to measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.

Ezekiel 42:16-19
He measured on the east side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about. He measured on the north side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about.
He measured on the south side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

Joshua 18:8
Then the men arose and went, and Joshua commanded those who went to describe the land, saying, "Go and walk through the land and describe it, and return to me; then I will cast lots for you here before the LORD in Shiloh."

Joshua 18:9
The men surveyed the land. They described it in a book. The land was divided into seven parts according to its cities. Then they returned to Joshua at the camp at Shiloh.

02/15/2021

Did you know that Mount Rushmore is referred to as 3 surveyors and the other guy? Can you guess which president was not a surveyor?

A.) George Washington
B.) Theodore Roosevelt
C.) Abraham Lincoln
D.) Thomas Jefferson