Surveyor’s Pins
notes: label: Description
content: Surveyors measuring the length of a line used pins of this sort to keep track of the number of chains they had used. Preston Bassett received these pins from James L. Davis, who claimed that they had been used by his great great grandfather, James Griswold, in laying out the Erie Railroad in the early 1830s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Connecticut, Ridgefield
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Preston R. Bassett
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.319343
label: accession number
content: 236805
label: catalog number
content: 319343
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Surveyor's Pins
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, iron (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 34.3 mm x 4.7 mm; x 1 3/8 in x 3/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall, each: 13 in x 1 7/16 in x 1/4 in; 33.02 cm x 3.65125 cm x .635 cm