Publisher's Synopsis
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 Monroe 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. 484 pages with 137 total maps What's Mapped in this book (that you'll not likely find elsewhere) . . . 9066 Parcels of Land (with original landowner names and patent-dates labeled in the relevant map) 73 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 1820s677 1830s2416 1840s395 1850s2082 1860s953 1870s78 1880s843 1890s1123 1900s295 1910s86 1920s22 1930s15 1940s7 1950s30 1960s20 1970s4 1980s4 1990s2 What Cities and Towns are in Monroe County, Alabama (and in this book)? Axle, Beatrice, Buena Vista, Chestnut, Chrysler, Claiborne, Drewry, Eliska, Excel, Finchburg, Fountain, Franklin, Frisco City, Goodway, Halls Crossroads, Hixon, Homewood, Hybart, Jeddo, Kalem, Keith, Manistee, Megargel, Mexboro, Mexia, Mexia Crossing, Midway, Mineola, Monroeton, Monroeville, Mount Pleasant, Nadawah, Natchez, Old Salem, Old Texas, Ollie, Packards Bend, Palmers Crossroads, Perdue Hill, Peterman, Pine Orchard, Pineville, Puryearville (historical), Renson, Riley, River Ridge, Scotland, Scratch Ankle, Tinela, Tunnel Springs, Turkestan (historical), Turnbull, Uriah, Valley Estates, Vredenburgh, Wainwright, West Monroeville
