Brick_Wood_Stone_Land_Water_Measurement - University of Virginia
Brick_Wood_Stone_Land_Water_Measurement - University of Virginia
Brick_Wood_Stone_Land_Water_Measurement - University of Virginia
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<strong>Brick</strong>_<strong>Wood</strong>_<strong>Stone</strong>_<strong>Land</strong>_<strong>Water</strong>_<strong>Measurement</strong><br />
[James Dinsmore] and John Perry (the leading two contractors at the <strong>University</strong> construction site) submitted a<br />
report informing the Board <strong>of</strong> Visitors that they haveing leveled from the doric pavilion to the Springs on the<br />
mountain-find the two first to be 6. feet above the water table-at the distance <strong>of</strong> 1,100 yards-one hundred<br />
yards further is another Spring 26. feet above the water table <strong>of</strong> pavilion-and Still further-Say ab[o]ut 60<br />
yards there is another 75 feet above sd. Level-all <strong>of</strong> these are bold good Springs-the furthest Spring-<br />
1,260. yards from the pavilion-as near as we Could tell by Steping it <strong>of</strong>[f].<br />
Dinsmore & Perry to the Board <strong>of</strong> Visitors, 27 March 1819, ViU:TJ. Apparently Dinsmore and Perry joined Allen Dawson on 27 March as Dawson surveyed the 6¼ acre tract <strong>of</strong> land that the<br />
university had purchased from Jesse W. Garth. See Dawson’s Survey <strong>of</strong> Plot Purchased from Jesse W. Garth, 27 March 1819, in ViU:PP.
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