Author: Gregory A. Boyd

Publisher:

Published: 2010-05-20

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 9781420313437

390 pages with 116 total maps Locating original landowners in maps has never been an easy task-until now. This volume in the Family Maps series contains newly created maps of original landowners (patent maps) in what is now Caddo Parish, Louisiana, gleaned from the indexes of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. But it offers much more than that. For each township in the county, there are two additional maps accompanying the patent map: a road map and a map showing waterways, railroads, and both modern and many historical city-centers and cemeteries. Included are indexes to help you locate what you are looking for, whether you know a person's name, a last name, a place-name, or a cemetery. The combination of maps and indexes are designed to aid researchers of American history or genealogy to explore frontier neighborhoods, examine family migrations, locate hard-to-find cemeteries and towns, as well as locate land based on legal descriptions found in old documents or deeds. The patent-maps are essentially plat maps but instead of depicting owners for a particular year, these maps show original landowners, no matter when the transfer from the federal government was completed. Dates of patents typically begin near the time of statehood and run into the early 1900s. What's Mapped in this book (that you'll not likely find elsewhere) . . . 3941 Parcels of Land (with original landowner names and patent-dates labeled in the relevant map) 44 Cemeteries plus . . . Roads, and existing Rivers, Creeks, Streams, Railroads, and Small-towns (including some historical), etc. What YEARS are these maps for? Here are the counts for parcels of land mapped, by the decade in which the corresponding land patents were issued: DecadeParcel-count 1830s11 1840s1927 1850s383 1860s431 1870s57 1880s144 1890s361 1900s298 1910s114 1920s116 1930s66 1940s9 1950s10 1960s3 1970s1 1980s4 1990s1 What Cities and Towns are in Caddo Parish, Louisiana (and in this book)? Albany (historical), Arlatex, Audrey Park, Aulds (historical), Belcher, Bethany, Black Bayou (historical), Blanchard, Bonham Landing, Brent, Brian, Brown Park Estates, Buncombe (historical), Bungalo (historical), Caddo, Cannon, Cash Point, Caspiana, Cavett, Cecile, Cedar Grove, Conn, Cooper Road, Cross Lake Hills South, Cut-off Junction, De Broeck Landing, Deep Woods, Dixie, Elkins, Fairfield, Ferry Lake, Flournoy, Forbing, Four Forks, Frog Level (historical), Garfield (historical), Gas Center, Gayles, Gilliam, Greenbrook, Greenwood, Hadley, Hayti, Hollywood, Hosston, Ida, Jewella (historical), Keithville, Lachute, Lake Hayes, Lakeshore North, Lane (historical), Latex, Longwood, Lorraine, Lucas, Mail Boxes, McCoy (historical), Midway, Mira, Missionary, Mooringsport, Moss, Myrtis, Naylor, Nichols (historical), North Shreveport, Norton, Oil City, Palmer Landing, Pickett, Pleasant Grove, Preston, Reisor, River Oaks, Robson, Rodessa, Sandra, Sentell, Shipp, Shoreline, Shreveport, Solley Hill, Southern Hills, Spring Ridge, Stacy Landing, Summer Grove, Superior, Three States, Timberlane, Trees, Uni (historical), Vivian, Woodchuck, Zylks