Showing posts with label Famous Places. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Famous Places. Show all posts

Monday, January 7, 2019

Partial Plat Map Near Bayou Sara




The Acklin/Acklen Plantations (formerly owned by Isaac Franklin) are included near the top of the map; Bayou Sara is in the lower corner.  The former Acklin plantation, Angola, is now the Angola Prison in Louisiana.




Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Andersons' Patent Between The Green River And Cumberland Road


 8845  Patent: VA
Description: ANDERSON, MICHAEL; ANDERSON, DAVID; & THOMPSON, JOHN


Surveyed for Michael Anderson, John Thompson and David Anderson in Jefferson County
6 November 1782













Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Whitleys, Logan's And The Wilderness Road





Map Of Kentucke (Library of Congress)
This map of Kentucke,
Contributor Names: Filson, John, approximately 1747-1788.
Created / Published: [18--]




Sunday, June 17, 2018

David Rice Preached Here


"The Stanford Presbyterian Church, founded 1788 on this site, on Old Wilderness Trail."




Virginia (now Kentucky) Land Patents for this David Rice?

Patent: VA 2456.0; Patent: VA 5954.0 and/or Patent: VA 5257.0



Friday, June 15, 2018

Farm House Map, Larue County, Kentucky


Abraham Lincoln's Birthplace....

Map At LOC

Portion Of Larue County, Kentucky, Map At The Library Of Congress
Rand McNally and Company.
Created / Published: [Kentucky] : Charles Williams and C.M. Barnes, c 1899
Cadastral map

Also featured: Nolyn River (has been spelled Noles Linn, Nolin, etc.) and South Fork Creek





Sunday, April 8, 2018

Near The Old Indian Village At Canandaigua


Source

The proprietors offered this tract for sale by townships or parts of townships; and during the summer of 1789, several families settled on and near the site of the old Indian village at Canandaigua; at Bloomfield, and on Boughton Hill now in the town of Victor.

So rapid were the sales of the proprietors that before the 18th day of November 1790 they had disposed of about fifty townships, which were mostly sold by whole townships or large portions of townships, to sundry individuals and companies of farmers and others formed for that purpose.

On the 18th day of November, 1790, they sold the residue of their tract (reserving two townships only,) amounting to upwards of a million and a quarter acres of land, to Robert Morris of Philadelphia, who soon sold the same to Sir William Pultney, an English gentleman who appointed Capt. Charles Williamson his general and resident agent, to superintend his interest in, and dispose of the lands by sale in small or large quantities.
 [Source]

Friday, November 17, 2017

Thomas Maxwell Near Boonesborough




Patent: VA 0022.0
Description: MAXWELL, THOMAS
17 November 1775

Also see:

Patent: VA 0023.0
Description: MAXWELL, THOMAS


Patent: VA 0029.0
Description: MAXWELL, THOMAS 

Friday, October 20, 2017

Near Confluence, Pennsylvania, Then And Now



Confluence, Pennsylvania, Area


Source (Yough River Mentioned)

"Historically, our town was named for its location at the junction of the Casselman River and Laurel Hill Creek with the Youghiogheny River." [Visit Confluence Website]