Colonial Sense: Gunter's Chain - 0 views
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Geoffrey Reiss on 21 Jul 11In our previous Foursquare Garden article we posted in Signs of the Times, we discussed the length of the garden the Pennsylvania Germans designed as being sixty-six feet long. This was because the length of an eighteenth century fence panel or rail was eleven feet. There is also an important invention designed in England that helped to shape the layout of our nation. The Gunter's chain played a primary role in mapping out America in for three hundred years beginning in the 1600's.