Dana F. Perkins, Inc., is one of the oldest, continuously owned civil engineering and land surveying firms in the nation. It began in 1882 with the original Dana Perkins and has continued with his son, grandson, and great-granddaughter, who is the current president. Over the years, the Dana Perkins organization has surveyed and engineered thousands of acres of land for everyone from individual property owners to large corporations and federal, state and local governments. The company has been involved in thousands of projects, including the Andover Country Club Estates in Andover, Massachusetts, Endicott College in Beverly, Massachusetts, and the 1.5 million square foot Northshore Shopping Mall in Peabody, Massachusetts.