258 pages with 62 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 Genesee County, Michigan, 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) . . . 3940 Parcels of Land (with original landowner names and patent-dates labeled in the relevant map) 45 Cemeteries plus . . . Roads, and existing Rivers, Creeks, Streams, Railroads, and Small-towns (including some historical), etc. Back to Top of Description 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 1820s18 1830s3490 1840s141 1850s273 1860s5 1870s2 1890s4 1900s2 1910s4 What Cities and Towns are in Genesee County, Michigan (and in this book)? Argentine, Atlas, Bayport Park, Beecher, Belsay, Brent Creek, Burton, Clio, Davison, Duffield, Farrandville, Fenton, Flint, Flushing, Gaines, Genesee, Goodrich, Grand Blanc, Lake Fenton, Lakeside, Lapeer Heights, Lennon, Linden, McGrew Junction, Montrose, Mount Morris, Otisville, Pine Run, Rankin, Richfield Center, Rogersville, Russellville, Swartz Creek, Thetford Center

この著作は、単なる地理的資料の枠を超えた、開拓者たちの熱き息吹を封じ込めた土地の叙事詩です。グレゴリー・アラン・ボイドは、無機質な登記データを血の通った地図へと昇華させ、かつてこの荒野に夢を託した数千もの魂の足跡を鮮やかに可視化しました。そこには、アメリカという国家が形成される瞬間の熱量と、名もなき先祖たちが大地に刻んだ生の証が静かに、しかし力強く横たわっています。 特に一八三〇年代の爆発的な入植の記録は、一族の移住と繁栄を描き出す壮大な群像劇を彷彿とさせます。墓地や鉄路、水脈が重なり合う多層的な地図は、過去と現代を繋ぐ記憶の回路となり、読者を時空を超えた血脈の旅へと誘うでしょう。書物という形式だからこそ到達できた、土地と人間が織りなす極上のヒューマンドラマを、ぜひその手で紐解いてみてください。