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Charting the Inland Seas
A History of the U.S. Lake Survey

Arthur M. Woodford 		Throughout the history of the Great Lakes many organizations have played important roles in the growth and development of the water system. Charting the Inland Seas highlights the work done by the U.S. Lake Survey, one of the most notable, yet least known, organizations in the history of the Great Lakes. With the first great influx of settlers into the Great Lakes region came the need for extensive surveys and navigational charts. In the 1830s shipowners and masters pressed the federal government to begin a thorough survey of the Lakes, resulting in the formation of the United States Lake Survey in 1841.
Arthur M. Woodford documents how the role and responsibility of the Lake Survey grew from the 1840s to the 1970s as conditions on the Great Lakes changed—from the evolution of larger vessels and increasing numbers of recreational craft, through the two world wars, and to the Survey's eventual reorganization and later phasing out in 1976.		 Foreword

I. The New World Beckons
II. "A Survey of the Northern and Northwestern Lakes"
III. Mission Completed
IV. The Intervening Years
V. A New Plan
VI. The Most Complete and Accurate Charts
VII. Maps by the Ton
VIII. Fresh-Water Research

Epilogue
Appendixes
 
Great Lakes Books Series

$34.95l cloth / ISBN 0-8143-2499-1

286 pages
8 illustrations

1994