PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW / NEWSMAX: …He owned nearly 60,000 acres, spread out between Western Pennsylvania and present-day West Virginia. This particular tract contained approximately 3,000 acres given to him by the British for his French and Indian War service.
Of all things dear to him, Washington loved his youthful craft as a surveyor and its role in helping him to evolve into a gentleman landowner.
You can imagine his surprise, in the late summer of 1784, when he rode out to survey his property and found squatters permanently settled on the land… (more)
EDITOR: Perhaps an oversimplification, but still an instuctive and fun read. What Wall Street is today, land acquisition and subdivision was to the founding fathers and for the first couple of centuries of our nation.
