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In 1977, a group of surveyors in California met and agreed to form a new non profit society not bound by any geographical boundaries: Their interest - the preservation of the history of the science of surveying. Their purpose - to form a society that would realize that purpose. Thus, the Surveyors Historical Society (SHS) was formed.
The Surveyors Historical Society is dedicated to the public purposes of preserving historical surveying instruments, artifacts, records and memorabilia. SHS is also dedicated to educating the general public about the history of surveying. The Society has developed programs to honor historical surveying points, and the surveyors who have made significant contributions to the profession through the implementation of a public marker program. SHS cooperates at all opportunities with persons and organizations that share the public benefit purpose of education concerning the history of all branches of the science of surveying.
Acceptance of SHS objectives has grown rapidly and membership has spread around the world. Exhibits have been set up on numerous occasions at state, regional and national meetings of surveyors and photogrammetrists. Come Join Us Measuring History
Surveyors to mark Charles Mason's grave in Philadelphia . . . with real Mason-Dixon Stone
Land surveyors, astronomers and history buffs from all across America and Great Britain will gather at Philadelphia next summer, to mark the nearly forgotten grave of renowned surveyor & astronomer Charles Mason.
It was Mason who teamed with English colleague Jeremiah Dixon in the 1760s to lay out the famed Mason-Dixon Line, a colonial boundary that settled long-smoldering disputes between Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware. Decades later, after Pennsylvania outlawed slavery, their line became the quasi-legal division between slave states and free, in pre-Civil War America.
The event is part of "Surveyors Rendezvous 2013," a large annual gathering of land surveyors, antique-instrument experts and others, hosted by Surveyors Historical Society. Held every year at historically-significant locations --- most recently along the Missouri River route of Lewis & Clark --- 2013's national Surveyors Rendezvous is slated to take place in and around the Historic Area of Philadelphia, on August 29, 30 and 31, 2013.
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