The Battle Of Allatoona Pass

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The Battle Of Allatoona Pass, October 5, 1864

Portion Of Map Above (Allatoona, Canton, Etc.)

St. Clair's Battle Ground

The Treaty of Greenville: Being an Official Account of the Same, Together ..., By Frazer Ells Wilson (Page 42):

Historical Marker here.

A Tribute

Plaque located outside a museum at Fort Lee

Bottum Farm Once Owned By Justus Sherwood, Now An Historic Place

There is a Squier connection to this story, which originally caught my attention.

The U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places form for the Bottum Farm in New Haven, Vermont, included some of the notable characteristics of the property (noted below).

The form noted that the Bottum Farm embodies distinctive characteristics of a traditional Vermont farmstead... .

Although no structures remain from the property's earliest document period, it is also significant for its associations with Justus Sherwood...  First owned and farmed in 1774 by Sherwood -- an individual significant to New Haven's, Vermont's and even Canada's history -- the property remained in his wife's Sarah (Bottum) Sherwood's family for almost two hundred and fifty years.

Like Sherwood before them, the Bottums achieved prominence in New Haven -- collectively as well as individually.  Elias (1791-1865), who had spent his childhood and schoolage years in Shaftsbury, moved to New Haven in 1809.  In 1811 he married Diadama Squier (the granddaughter of Andrew Squier* -- one of the town's original proprietors), with whom he had four children: Mary Ann, Charlotte Emeline, Carolina Eliza, and Simon Elias.  Elias reportedly salvaged material from Sherwood's original cabin...

The Bottum Farm ceased dairy operations in 1958.

1871 Beers Map Found in the NPS Document

*My grandkids' ancestor

An Ottawa, Canada, newspaper article about Justus Sherwood here.

Transportation Maps - Including Indian Trails In Ohio

There's a site that focuses on Historic Transportation maps here. An 1831 map showing roads, canals and counties in Ohio can be found here. An 1890 railroad map of Ohio can be found here.

One of the maps included shows Indian Trails in Ohio, including Blue Jacket's Town in (present day) Defiance County, Ohio.

Photo by Jim Palm

The Ellicott Line - Alabama

Went past the historical marker for the Mound Line (Ellicott Line) on our way to check on our geocache today in Baldwin County, Alabama.

The Mound Line Mile Mound #216
(Ellicott Line)

Surveyed in 1799 to mark the 31° North Latitude, this line charted the first southern boundary of the United States, separating the U.S. from Spanish Florida. The line was marked at one-mile intervals by earthen mounds approximately fifteen-feet square and three-feet high with a charred lighter-pine post at the center, hence the name Mound Line. Jointly surveyed by Major Andrew Ellicott , U.S. Commissioner, and Esteban Minor, Spanish Commissioner, to determine boundaries as agreed in the Treaty of San Lorenzo in 1795. The line began at the Mississippi River, ran east along 31° North Latitude to the Chattahoochie River, thence eventually to the Atlantic Ocean. Stockton (Alabama) was divided by this line, with some residents living in the United States and some in Spanish Florida. Although Stockton became a "border town," U.S. law generally prevailed in the area.

Related to the Mound Line, is the more famous Ellicott Stone, marking the boundary between the United States and Spanish West Florida.

Ellicott Stone

This map shows the northern border of Florida as the 31° North Latitude boundary line established by Andrew Ellicott.