Plats of meanders of Wabash River, n.d.

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Plats of meanders of Wabash River, n.d.

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Plats contain no legal descriptions or measurements but show locations of various river natural features (i.e., rapids; sandbars; rocky bottoms; channels; flow direction) plus bank natural and manmade features (i.e., timber; cultivation; town sites; buildings (e.g., houses, mills, boat stores)). Also shown are property owners' names.

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Federal land surveys in Illinois were authorized by Congressional act (March 26, 1804), when the U. S. Surveyor General was given jurisdiction over all public land north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi Rivers. Surveys began in the western Vincennes Tract (1804) and southern Illinois (1806), then proceeded northward; covering all but most northern Illinois by 1831. When the Illinois surveys began, the Surveyor General was an independent officer under the President's direct su...