Author: Gregory A. Boyd

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Published: 2010-05-20

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9781420312881

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 Dale County, Alabama, 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. 272 pages with 62 total maps What's Mapped in this book (that you'll not likely find elsewhere) . . . 5968 Parcels of Land (with original landowner names and patent-dates labeled in the relevant map) 48 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 1820s2 1830s536 1840s710 1850s3600 1860s238 1870s45 1880s216 1890s515 1900s65 1910s27 1920s10 What Cities and Towns are in Dale County, Alabama (and in this book)? Allen Heights (subdivision), Arguta, Ariton, Asbury, Barefield Crossroads, Barnes, Beamon, Bells Crossroads, Bertha, Bowden Terrace (subdivision), Browns Crossroad, Clayhatchee, Clopton, Country Estates, Daleville, Dill, Dillard, Dykes Crossroad, Echo, Ewell, Five Points, Gerald, Grimes, Holiday Village, Kelly, Level Plains, Lewis, Mabson, Marley Mill, Midland City, Munson Heights (subdivision), Napier Field, Newton, Ozark, Phillips Crossroads, Pinckard, Plainview, Pleasant Hill, Roberts Crossroads, Rocky Head, Skipperville, Snells Crossroads, Snow Hill, Sylvan Grove, Waterford