U.S. Montgomery Land Office - list of lands offered for public sale at Montgomery, 1878-1880.

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U.S. Montgomery Land Office - list of lands offered for public sale at Montgomery, 1878-1880.

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This series consists of a list of lands offered for public sale at Montgomery in the late 1870s. Each entry includes the location of the tract, number of acres, price per acre, and notes. Notes indicate whether the land was sold or not. This volume documents land sales at a time when most people obtained public land through homesteading.

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Alabama Department of Archives and History

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Alabama. Secretary of State. Lands Division.

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United States. Montgomery Land Office

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Authorities: Brannon, Peter. "Through the Years: United States Land Offices in Alabama." Montgomery Advertiser. 1936 July 26. Bush, Evelyn. "United States Land Offices in Alabama, 1803-1879." Alabama Historical Quarterly 17 (1955): 146-153. The Montgomery Land Office was established by an act of 1832 July 10 to administer the Tallapoosa Land District in the State of Ala. The office opened on 1834 Jan. 1 and originally was made up of the lower Cree...

United States. General Land Office

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Under regulations approved on March 20, 1915, tracts set aside as villa sites under the provisions of an act of April 12, 1910, within the former Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana, were offered for sale at public auction, beginning at Polson, Montana, on July 26, 1915. The sale was adjourned to Dayton, Montana, on August 6 and concluded at Kalispell, Montana, on August 7, 1915. There were 889 parcels of land, not less than 2 nor more than 5 acres in area, fronting on Flathead Lake, and under ...