{"product_id":"9781420315080","title":"Family Maps of Muskegon County, Michigan, Deluxe Edition: With Homesteads, Roads, Waterways, Towns, Cemeteries, Railroads, and More","description":"222 pages with 59 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 Muskegon 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.\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 2661 Parcels of Land\u003cbr\u003e (with original landowner names and patent-dates labeled in the relevant map)\u003cbr\u003e 26 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 corresponding land patents were issued:\u003cbr\u003eDecade Parcel-count\u003cbr\u003e1830s 1\u003cbr\u003e1840s 97\u003cbr\u003e1850s 1087\u003cbr\u003e1860s 604\u003cbr\u003e1870s 660\u003cbr\u003e1880s 158\u003cbr\u003e1890s 28\u003cbr\u003e1900s 9\u003cbr\u003e1910s 8\u003cbr\u003e1920s 7\u003cbr\u003e1930s 2\u003cbr\u003e1940s 1\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat Cities and Towns are in Muskegon County, Michigan (and in this book)?\u003cbr\u003eBailey, Berry Junction, Brunswick, Canada Corners, Casnovia, Cloverville, Dalton, Fruitport, Holton, Lakewood, Lakewood Club, Maple Grove, Michillinda, Montague, Moorland, Muskegon, Muskegon Heights, North Muskegon, Norton Shores, Ravenna, Roosevelt Park, Slocum, South Whitehall, Sullivan, Sylvan Beach, Twin Lake, Updyke, Wabaningo, Whitehall, Wolf Lake\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arphax Publishing Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49899143692528,"sku":"9781420315080","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781420315080","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}