Located in Cascades Park, this point is the beginning of all private property descriptions in Florida, where the meridian parallel and baseline parallel intersected to create the starting point for Florida's survey system under the direction of President Thomas Jefferson. Set in 1824 by acting Governor George Walton, it is also the southwest corner of the Lafayette Land Grant, given to the Marquis de Lafayette in recognition of his contribution to the American Revolution, and the southeast corner of the original City of Tallahassee, the state capital. In the United States Public Land Survey System, a meridian is the north-south line upon which rectangular surveys are based, and a baseline is the east-west line. Surveyor Generals managed the surveying of a state's public lands, and U.S. Deputy Surveyors ventured into unmapped Florida to make the original surveys that established legal property boundaries for land in the state from 1824 until 1906.