U.S. Mobile Land Office - lists of vacant and unappropriated land, ca.1870.

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U.S. Mobile Land Office - lists of vacant and unappropriated land, ca.1870.

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U.S. Land Office Registers kept records of public lands sold, patented and those unsold. This record lists vacant and unappropriated lands in the former Greenville and Demopolis Land Districts. The lists include the location, the number of acres and the price per acre. Included is land in Monroe, Conecuh, Covington, Butler, Crenshaw, Wilcox, Marengo, and Choctaw counties. These records provide information about the disposition of public lands in Ala. The Mobile Land Office was created in 1867 and moved to Montgomery in 1879.

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Alabama. Secretary of State. Lands Division.

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United States. Mobile Land Office.

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United States. Demopolis Land Office

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Authority: Bush, Evelyn. "United States Land Offices in Alabama, 1803-1879." Alabama Historical Quarterly 17 (1955): 146-153. The Demopolis Land Office was established by an act of 1833 Mar. 2 and began operation on 1833 July 15. It was formed out of the western part of the Cahaba and the northern part of the St. Stephens land districts. The Demopolis Land Office was moved to Montgomery on 1866 Mar. 30. From the description of Agency history recor...

United States. Greenville Land Office.

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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 ...