Family Maps of Holmes County, Florida

Gregory a Boyd J D

Family Maps of Holmes County, Florida
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Arphax Publishing Co.
Published
20 May 2010
Pages
226
ISBN
9781420311778

Family Maps of Holmes County, Florida

Gregory a Boyd J D

216 pages with 74 total maps 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 Holmes County, Florida, 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. What’s Mapped in this book (that you’ll not likely find elsewhere) … 2712 Parcels of Land (with original landowner names and patent-dates labeled in the relevant map) 17 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 1820s3 1830s3 1840s20 1850s177 1860s186 1870s2 1880s141 1890s1606 1900s468 1910s88 1920s8 1930s7 1940s1 1950s1 What Cities and Towns are in Holmes County, Florida (and in this book)? Ards Crossroads, Arrant Settlement, Baker Settlement, Barker Store, Bayou Crossing, Bethlehem, Bonifay, Bounds Crossing, Cerrogordo, Cobb Cross Roads, Collins Mill, Eleanor, Esto, Gritney, Hathaway Mill, Hickory Hill, Hobbs Crossroads, Holland Crossroads, Hoover Mill, Hudson, Izagora, Leonia, Miller Crossroads, New Hope, Noma, Noma Junction, Pittman, Ponce de Leon, Prosperity, Royals Crossroads, Smith Crossroads, Tendil Crossing, Underwood Crossing, Westville, Wynnlum

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