Product Description
by Gregory a. Boyd J. D. (Author)
404 pages with 128 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 Walton 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) . . . 3955 Parcels of Land (with original landowner names and patent-dates labeled in the relevant map) 16 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 1820s44 1830s10 1840s27 1850s180 1860s48 1870s4 1880s256 1890s877 1900s1061 1910s580 1920s197 1930s15 1940s2 1950s625 1960s13 1970s3 1980s1 2000s5 What Cities and Towns are in Walton County, Florida (and in this book)? Alpine Heights, Alys Beach, Argyle, Battle Ground Forks, Bay View, Beach Highlands, Big Hammock, Blue Gulf Beach, Blue Mountain Beach, Bruce, Bunker, Caney Creek, Center Ridge, Choctaw, Choctaw Bay Estates, Choctaw Beach, Clear Springs, Cluster Springs, Cosson Mill, Darlington, De Funiak Springs, Dixon, Douglass Crossroads, Dune Allen Beach, Ealum, Eucheeanna, Flowersville, Fluffy Landing, Forest Highlands, Four Mile Village, Freeport, Gaskin, Glendale, Gordon, Grayton Beach, Grosh, Gulf Pines, Inlet Beach, Knox Hill, Koerber, La Grange Point, Lakewood, Liberty, Miller Bend, Miramar Beach, Mossy Head, New Harmony, New Home, Old Bay View, Paxton, Piney Grove, Pleasant Grove, Pleasant Grove, Pleasant Ridge, Point Washington, Pond Creek, Portland, Redbay, Rock Hill, Rosemary Beach, Sand Hill, Sandestin, Santa Rosa Beach, Sconiers Mill, Seacrest, Seagrove Beach, Seascape, Seaside, Steele Church, Tang-O-Mar Beach, The Village of Baytowne Wharf, Turquoise Beach, Union, Villa Tasso, Walcan, Watercolor
