Pete Jones. Photo provided
by NMHS.Press Release
Event Date:
November 12, 2018
For further information contact
NM Historical Society Presents Pete Jones for
November Program
On Monday, November
12, the North Manchester Historical Society is pleased to host
popular historian Pete Jones for a program about frontier
surveyors. The program will be held
in the Assembly Room at Timbercrest Retirement Center, 2201 East Street, at 6:30
p.m. The program is open to the
public at no cost.
Pete will address the significance of how surveyors
provided an orderly manner for purchasing farmland in the undeveloped west. The
Northwest Ordinance permitted legal ownership of land to the pioneers. The
ordinance structured land and provided settlers with civil liberties. Pete will
explain how surveys provide detailed information on what the land looked like
before settlement. The rules set out in the Ordinance set the pattern for land
sales in about three-fourths of all US lands.
Pete Jones taught for 38 years, most of that time teaching
American History, English and journalism at Manchester High School.
He retired in 1999. He
served on the board of the Wabash Carnegie Library for 25 years.
Currently on the board of the Wabash County Historical Museum, Jones
writes a weekly history column for the
Wabash Plain Dealer and has written a monthly column for the Ford Meter Box
Company marketing department for 34 years.
A sampling of these columns has been collected and published.
Jones’ articles have appeared in
The Wall Street Journal and
American History Magazine.
In 2015, the Indiana Historical Society awarded Jones awarded the Hubert
Hawkins History Award for his distinguished service and career in local history.
Jones is a well-regarded speaker and researcher whose
relaxed and interesting narrative style makes his historical research seem more
like a story, a “good yarn” that’s engaging and appealing.
His many past students and acquaintances will especially enjoy this
program.
Contact the North Manchester
Center for History at 260-982-0672, or
nmhistory@cinergymetro.net
for more information.
Pete Jones. Photo provided
by NMHS.
Pete Jones. Picture
originally appeared in
The Paper
of Wabash County.
Wikipedia images of George
Washington as a young surveyor
