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Map of Niagara County, New York / - Public domain map

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Summary

County map showing towns (townships), numbered town subsections, irregular landholdings, rural buildings, and householders' names.
Also indicates the vertical and horizontal numbering system of the township/range land subdivision system.
Relief shown by hachures and rock drawings.
"Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1852 by Robert P. Smith in the ... Eastern District of Pennsylvania."
Hand colored to emphasize town boundaries, town territories, and Amerindian land reservations.
Mounted in western/eastern segments (sheets).
Originally printed on 4 sheets (now conjoined).
LC copy imperfect: Mounted on cloth backing. missing small edge sections, sheets halved to enable folding.
LC Land ownership maps, 522
Includes "Description" (text), statistical tables, and 3 landscape illustrations
Street-map insets: Plan of Lockport -- Plan of the village of Lewiston, Niagara Co., N. York / by Sam'l Geil -- Plan of the village of Niagara-Falls, Niagara Co., New York / surveyed & drawn by Sam'l Geil -- Plan of the village of Wilson / drawn by Franklin Gifford, surveyor [with index of names[.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
2 copies

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Date

01/01/1852
person

Contributors

Gifford, Franklin.
Geil, Samuel.
Smith, Robert Pearsall, 1827-1898.
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Source

Library of Congress
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Public Domain

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