From 1815 to 1853, surveyors measured Michigan with courage, determination, integrity, and ingenuity, producing innovative methods of land measurement and ownership that were implemented globally. The surveying of the base line revealed a collision among four contrasting concepts of property—Native American, European Aristocratic, Colonial American, and Jeffersonian—from which emerged a new, uniquely American set of principles that profoundly shaped landscape laws and way of life. The Native American view, expressed by Tecumseh, held that no tribe had the right to sell land, even to each other, much less to strangers, asking, "Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the Great Sea, as well as the Earth? Didn't the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?" European Aristocratic and Colonial American systems relied on metes and bounds ownership by heads of state, royal will and pleasure, or imperial decree. The Jeffersonian ideal was an immaculate grid based on the belief that the earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. In this place, the second of a series aligned near Michigan's base line was established in 2005, while local history includes Arthur Power, a Quaker and the first settler in 1824, Farmington becoming a city in 1926, Farmington Hills becoming a city in 1973, the Underground Railroad, and the interurban trolley route from Northville through Farmington to Pontiac and Detroit from 1901 to 1929.