Book Description

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 Walker 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. 364 pages with 98 total maps What's Mapped in this book (that you'll not likely find elsewhere) . . . 7079 Parcels of Land (with original landowner names and patent-dates labeled in the relevant map) 96 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 1820s100 1830s724 1840s124 1850s2021 1860s1396 1870s76 1880s1315 1890s1032 1900s79 1910s179 1920s33 What Cities and Towns are in Walker County, Alabama (and in this book)? Aldridge, America, Argo, Bankhead, Barney, Benoit, Bethel, Big Ridge, Black Warrior Town (historical), Boldo, Bradleytown, Browntown, Bryan, Burnwell, Burrows Crossroads, Calumet, Camak Mills (historical), Cameron, Campbellville, Carbon Hill, Cedar Lake, Cedrum, Chapel Hill, Clarke, Coal Valley, Coon Creek, Cordova, Corinth, Corona, Creel, Curry, Deason Hill, Debardeleben, Dilworth, Dixie Springs, Dogtown, Doliska, Dora, Dora Junction, Dovertown, Drifton, Drummond, Edgil, Eldridge, Empire, Enoe, Fairview, Five Points, Flatwood, Frisco Quarters, Gamble, Gardiners Gin, Gayosa, Gobblers Crossing, Goodsprings, Gorgas, Hayes Crossing, High Level, Hilliard, Hillsdale, Holly Grove, Hudson Settlement, Hull, Jasper, Kansas, Kershaw, Key Hill, Kings Mill, Lake Shore Subdivision, Littletons, Lockhart (historical), Lone Oak Subdivision, Lorton, Lupton, Lynns Park, Macedonia, Manchester, Marietta, Marigold, Marylee, McCollum, Mount Hope, Mountain Valley (historical), Nauvoo, New Jagger, Oak Hill, Oakahalla, Oakman, Parrish, Patton, Pendley, Pennsylvania Camp (historical), Pleasant Field, Pleasant Grove, Pocahontas, Powellville, Prospect, Providence, Pumpkin Center, Quinton, Quintown, Red Rock, Red Star, Reeds Ferry, Rocky Hollow, Rosehill, Ruby (historical), Samoset, Saragossa, Sardis, Sardis, Short Camp, Sipsey, Slicklizzard, Sloss, South Lowell, Spring Hill, Standard, Stephenson Crossing, Sumiton, Sumiton Trailer Park, Sunlight, Thach, Townley, Tutwiler, Twilley Town, Union Chapel, Wegra, West Corona, Williamstown, Wyatt, Yerkwood, York Mountain