{"product_id":"9781420312232","title":"Family Maps of Eaton County, Michigan, Deluxe Edition: With Homesteads, Roads, Waterways, Towns, Cemeteries, Railroads, and More","description":"224 pages with 53 total maps\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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 Eaton County, Michigan, 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e What's Mapped in this book (that you'll not likely find elsewhere) . . .\u003cbr\u003e 3009 Parcels of Land\u003cbr\u003e (with original landowner names and patent-dates labeled in the relevant map)\u003cbr\u003e 27 Cemeteries plus . . .\u003cbr\u003e Roads, and existing Rivers, Creeks, Streams, Railroads, and Small-towns (including some historical), etc.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e What YEARS are these maps for?\u003cbr\u003e Here are the counts for parcels of land mapped, by the decade in which the corresponding land patents were issued:\u003cbr\u003e Decade Parcel-count\u003cbr\u003e 1830s 2133\u003cbr\u003e 1840s 466\u003cbr\u003e 1850s 362\u003cbr\u003e 1860s 19\u003cbr\u003e 1870s 16\u003cbr\u003e 1880s 8\u003cbr\u003e 1910s 4\u003cbr\u003e 1920s 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e What Cities and Towns are in Eaton County, Michigan (and in this book)?\u003cbr\u003e Ainger, Bellevue, Bretton Woods (subdivision), Brookfield, Carlisle, Charlesworth, Charlotte, Chester, Delta Center, Delta Mills, Dimondale, Eaton Rapids, Five Points Corner, Grand Ledge, Gresham, Hoytville, Kalamo, Kingsland, Little Venice, Millett, Mulliken, Needmore, Olivet, Packard, Petrieville, Potterville, Shaytown, Stalls Corner, Sunfield, Vermontville, Waverly, West Windsor, Whaley Drain, Woodbury","brand":"Arphax Publishing Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49789309747440,"sku":"9781420312232","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781420312232","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}