U.S. Huntsville Land Office - letterbooks, 1872-1905.

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U.S. Huntsville Land Office - letterbooks, 1872-1905.

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This series consists of letterpress copy books containing copies of outgoing letters from the Huntsville Land Office. The majority of the letterbooks contain letters from both the Register and Receiver, though two volumes are exclusively of Receivers' letters. Some of the volumes contain letters which all deal with patents or contested cases. Fourteen of the volumes contain letters from the Huntsville Land Office to the U.S. Land Office. The majority of the volumes contain miscellaneous letters to various individual land owners and others concerned with the disposition of public lands. Most of the volumes include an alphabetical index to correspondents' names. This series documents the work of the Huntsville District Land Office Registers and Receivers and the disposition of public land at the Huntsville Land Office.

55 volumes.

Alabama Department of Archives and History

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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. Huntsville Land Office

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Authorities: Barefield, Marilyn Davis. "Old Huntsville Land Office Records and Military Warrants, 1810-1854." Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1985. Bush, Evelyn. "United States Land Offices in Alabama, 1803-1879." Alabama Historical Quarterly 17 (1955): 146-153. The land office later known as the Huntsville Land Office was created by an act of 1807 Mar. 3 and was established at Nashville, Tenn. on 1810 July 27. The office was moved to Twi...

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 ...