Map of Michigan and Wisconsin, embracing a great part of Iowa and Illinois, and the whole mineral region : with a chart of the Lakes, exhibiting the sections, the geological formations, and the general topography : compiled from the State Topographical Department, from the latest United States surve

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Map of Michigan and Wisconsin, embracing a great part of Iowa and Illinois, and the whole mineral region : with a chart of the Lakes, exhibiting the sections, the geological formations, and the general topography : compiled from the State Topographical Department, from the latest United States surveys, and from other authentic sources / by John Farmer.

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This portion of record group 59-5 consists of a map from the Michigan Geological Survey Division. "Entered at Detroit the 8th day of July 1847 by John Farmer."

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Michigan. Geological Survey Division

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The Michigan Geological Survey was created by Public Act 20 of 1837. Its purpose was to conduct a geological and mineralogical survey of the state. The state legislature appointed Douglass Houghton the first state geologist (1837). In 1921, the state legislature established the Department of Conservation, and the Michigan Geological Survey became part of that department (Public Act 17 of 1921). The Department of Conservation established the Geological Survey Division circa 1947. In 1968, the dep...

Farmer, John, 1798-1859

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Born in Half Moon, N.Y., Feb. 9, 1798; educated near Albany, N.Y. ; teacher in University of Michigan, 1821-1825; engaged in surveying; drew first published map of Michigan; published twelve different maps of Michigan, Wisconsin, Lake Superior, and Detroit; engraved most of them; filled many important offices in Detroit; published first Gazetteer of Michigan in 1830; died. in Detroit, Mar. 24, 1859. From the description of John Farmer papers, 1630-1836 (Detroit Public Library). World...