Even though I’m not a professional surveyor (only an amateur benchmark hunter), I was fortunate enough to get a cover story in The American Surveyor. “Mapping the World”—an outgrowth of my interest in Disney survey marks—explored the history of surveying at the Walt Disney World resort, starting with Disney’s secret purchase of land in the mid-1960s. You can read the full article on the magazine’s website.
It wasn’t until much later that Bill Hart – and the rest of the world – found out the truth about this secretive project: The buyer of 47 square miles of central Florida was Walt Disney, and his plans to build a super-sized version of Disneyland would change this area forever.
