[A map showing location of roads built by state and railroads that received land grants from the state, compiled from records in the State Land Office].

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[A map showing location of roads built by state and railroads that received land grants from the state, compiled from records in the State Land Office].

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Series 91 of record group 59-4 consists of a 1914 map, originally collected by either the Michigan Geological Survey or the Michigan Lands Division. The map documents the number of acres of state swamp land grants to railroads: Chicago and Northwestern; Detroit, Mackinac, and Marquette; Marquette, Houghton, and Ontonagon, Menominee River. Shows all of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and includes an inset of Isle Royale. The map is on tracing linen and was drawn by R.R. Havens for A.C. Carton of the State Land Office. The map is 36" x 63" in size, with no scale given.

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Michigan. Lands Division

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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...

Carton, Augustus Caesar, 1869-1946.

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Havens, R. R. (Roscoe Russell)

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