Point of Beginning
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The Point of Beginning is a surveyor's mark on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border, just east of East Liverpool, Ohio. It marks the beginning location for the surveying of public lands that led to the opening of the Northwest Territory, and is the starting point of the surveys of all other lands to the west, reaching all the way to the Pacific Ocean. On September 30, 1785, Thomas Hutchins, first Geographer of the United States, began surveying the Seven Ranges at the Point of Beginning. An obelisk, erected in 1960, marks the spot.
[edit] Other Points of Beginning
There are other points of beginning for different surveys.
See Point of Beginning in Wisconsin
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