{"product_id":"9781420315479","title":"Family Maps of Clinton County, Illinois, Deluxe Edition: With Homesteads, Roads, Waterways, Towns, Cemeteries, Railroads, and More","description":"274 pages with 56 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 Clinton 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.\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 4472 Parcels of Land\u003cbr\u003e (with original landowner names and patent-dates labeled in the relevant map)\u003cbr\u003e 53 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 patent applications were made:\u003cbr\u003e Decade Parcel-count\u003cbr\u003e 1800s 1\u003cbr\u003e 1810s 628\u003cbr\u003e 1820s 53\u003cbr\u003e 1830s 1469\u003cbr\u003e 1840s 851\u003cbr\u003e 1850s 1391\u003cbr\u003e 1860s 220\u003cbr\u003e 1870s 221\u003cbr\u003e 1880s 55\u003cbr\u003e 1890s 57\u003cbr\u003e 1900s 7\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e What Cities and Towns are in Clinton County, Illinois (and in this book)?\u003cbr\u003e Albers, Aviston, Bartelso, Beckemeyer, Boulder, Breese, Carlyle, Damiansville, Ferrin, Fremont (historical), Germantown, Harbor Light Bay, Hoffman, Huey, Jamestown, Keyesport, Marydale, New Baden, New Memphis, New Memphis Station, North Harbor, Panorama Hills, Posey, Royal Lake Resort, Saint Rose, Shattuc, Snearlyville, Stolletown, Trenton, Wamac, Wertenberg","brand":"Arphax Publishing Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49821191274736,"sku":"9781420315479","price":33.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781420315479","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}