{"product_id":"9781420314953","title":"Family Maps of Randolph County, Illinois, Deluxe Edition: With Homesteads, Roads, Waterways, Towns, Cemeteries, Railroads, and More","description":"302 pages with 68 total maps\u003cp\u003eLocating 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 Randolph County, Illinois, gleaned from the indexes of the Illinois State Archives. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncluded 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat's Mapped in this book (that you'll not likely find elsewhere) . . .\u003cbr\u003e 5070 Parcels of Land\u003cbr\u003e (with original landowner names and patent-dates labeled in the relevant map)\u003cbr\u003e 48 Cemeteries plus . . .\u003cbr\u003e Roads, and existing Rivers, Creeks, Streams, Railroads, and Small-towns (including some historical), etc.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat YEARS are these maps for?\u003cbr\u003eHere are the counts for parcels of land mapped, by the decade in which the patent applications were made:\u003cbr\u003eDecade Parcel-count\u003cbr\u003e1810s 381\u003cbr\u003e1820s 199\u003cbr\u003e1830s 2055\u003cbr\u003e1840s 1178\u003cbr\u003e1850s 1602\u003cbr\u003e1860s 38\u003cbr\u003e1870s 4\u003cbr\u003e1880s 2\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat Cities and Towns are in Randolph County, Illinois (and in this book)?\u003cbr\u003eBaldwin, Blair, Bremen, Campton, Chester, Collins, Coulterville, Danley, Diamond Cross, Dozaville, Eden, Ellis Grove, Evansville, Fort Gage, Grigg, Houston, Kampenville, Kaskaskia, Kellogg, Leanderville, Marigold, Menard, Modoc, New Palestine, Old Kaskaskia, Park Estates Mobile Home Park, Percy, Prairie, Prairie du Rocher, Preston, Randolph, Red Bud, Reily Lake, Rockwood, Roots, Ruma, Schuline, Shiloh Hill, Sparta, Steeleville, Tilden, Walsh, Welge, Wine Hill\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arphax Publishing Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49869360038128,"sku":"9781420314953","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781420314953","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}