| Engineering Newsletter - March, 2005 | ||
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In the MARCH NEWSLETTER time travel will be realized. In 1851 the Sanborn Fire Insurance Company of New York started to produce maps of virtually every city in the United States to help them determine fire risk. These maps are to scale, usually 1"=50’, showing every building, street, property line and some utilities. These maps were then periodically updated as the building mix changed. Currently the Library of Congress has over 800,000 of these maps on file for review with many local governmental agencies having their own respective areas available.These maps are very helpful in finding the history of your site, especially if it is now vacant. You can tell if there possibly are old building foundations, waterlines or abandon streets. Many of the maps also show where wells were once situated. These maps also show the type of land-use and zoning the property was subject to at that time. Your property could have once been used as meat markets, jewelry stores or even brick yards. Once you start looking at these maps history starts to reveal itself. From old street names that have been revised throughout the years, to unique businesses that don’t exist any longer such as the local harness shop. WEB LINK of THE MONTH : http://dmc.ohiolink.edu/Sanborn/Login You will have to login to your local library site but…you get Maps of areas showing structures long removed.EXTRA…EXTRA March is National Women Engineers Month. Go see…www.eweek.org/site/news/features/womeneng.shtml As always, you can count on McSteen and Associates, a multi-faceted second-generation family business that has been serving Northeast Ohio since 1970 to help you better design your project. The McSteen & Associates Engineering and Surveying Departments will design a quality product, using the experience gathered over many years of dealing with government agencies, in a manner readily accepted by the City Councils, County Engineers Office and the Recorders Office. The management team consisting of Terry Feller, President and Registered Professional Engineer and Surveyor, Tim Feller, Vice President and Registered Professional Surveyor and Debbie Feller CFO and Certified Public Accountant and the 62 employees in the offices in Cuyahoga, Lake, Summit, and Franklin counties will handle your project needs. A new office in western Cuyahoga County has recently been added to allow us to provide even more effective services. Local knowledge of the area and experience with the area governments allows McSteen & Associates to go the extra mile to protect your investment.Whether your needs are Mortgage Location and Boundary Surveys, Commercial and Industrial Surveys or complete Engineering Design we are well staffed to provide the professional product you need. Each project will receive the personal service associated with working with a well-established family owned and operated business. Jokes of the month :One Liners: -What organization has the initials A.D. |
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