Surveyor Compass

ID: 1708
This file appears in: Transylvania Company

This compass belonged to William Calk, a surveyor hired by Richard Henderson and the Transylvania Company to survey Boonesborough, the capital of the Transylvania colony. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: Transylvania Company

By McKenzie Martin
Historical Marker #66 in Henderson commemorates the Transylvania Company. Formed by Richard Henderson, the Transylvania Company was created to settle the area around the Kentucky, Ohio, and…