Surveying

Card file kept by Board of Survey for miscellaneous notes, miscellaneous calculations and Brighton notes.

Index to notes of the Board of Survey. Arranged alphabetically by street with book and page number, date and surveyor.

Books used by engineers to record survey notes and levels.

Volume kept by the City Surveyor's Office of copies of orders of the Board of Street Commissioners to establish the grades of streets in Dorchester.

In November of 1876, the Board of Assessors requested an appropriation of $1500 for the purpose of causing the preparation of a set of reduced copies, on tracing cloth, of surveyors' plans of estates, to be used in street and office work in the Assessors' Department. Includes copies of surveyor plans, arranged by neighborhood, which were drawn circa 1856-1877.

Plans and files of survey notes of Civil Engineer Charles H.W. Wood Co. Files are numbered 1-1770. This collection is unprocessed.