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Plat Book of Goodhue County, Minnesota. Drawn from Actual Surveys and the County Records. Minneapolis: C. M. Foote & Co., 328 Nicollet Avenue, 1894. Engraved by Balliet & Volk, Philadelphia. Folio, approximately 17.5 x 14.5 inches. Original blind-stamped maroon cloth boards over thick beveled boards, gilt-lettered to upper cover. Complete, with all leaves present per the table of contents, including the outline map of Goodhue County, Minnesota state map, township plats, city and village plats, and Patrons' Directory. Profusely illustrated with full-color double-page township plat maps and full-color city and village plats. Condition: Binding heavily worn â " covers rubbed and abraded with loss to the cloth at the corners and along all edges, exposing the boards beneath; original spine perished and replaced/reinforced with a clear archival tape spine repair that holds the boards to the textblock; front hinge cracked. Internally, the textblock shows significant staining and tide-marking throughout, with prominent dampstaining and discoloration visible on many leaves, particularly along the gutter margins and lower edges; some leaves with foxing, light soiling, and edge wear; preliminary leaves chipped and creased; a few leaves with marginal tears. Despite the staining, the maps themselves remain legible and the original hand-coloring is bright and vibrant. A plat atlas of Goodhue County, Minnesota, published at the high point of the American county atlas tradition by C. M. Foote & Co. of Minneapolis, the leading Minnesota plat publisher of the late nineteenth century. Includes detailed landowner plat maps of every township in the county â " Belle Creek, Belvidere, Burnside, Cannon Falls, Central Point, Cherry Grove, Featherstone, Florence, Goodhue, Hay Creek, Holden, Kenyon, Leon, Minneola, Pine Island, Red Wing, Roscoe, Stanton, Wacoota, Wannamingo, Warsaw, Welch, Vasa, and Zumbrota â " with every farm and rural property identified by owner's surname, an essential resource for genealogists tracing Goodhue County families. The City of Red Wing is mapped in extraordinary detail across three full plates (West, Middle, and East parts) showing every named addition, ward, lot, street, railroad, the State Reform School, Oakwood Cemetery, and the Mississippi River frontage. Additional city and village plats include Cannon Falls (large two-page plate), Zumbrota, Pine Island, Kenyon, Frontenac, Frontenac Station, Wacoutah, Fair Point, White Rock, Vasa, Dennison, Goodhue, Hader, Aspelund, Wanamingo, Rice, Forest Mills, Belle Creek, Central Point, Stanton, and the former site of Florence. Also includes a full state map of Minnesota and a fine outline map of the county showing the Mississippi River, Lake Pepin, and the township grid. The Patrons' Directory at the rear lists subscribing residents by township with occupation, post office, and section, often with biographical notes â " a treasure for family historians, with named breeders of Percheron, Norman, Shire, Clyde, and Hambletonian horses, Short Horn, Jersey, Holstein, and Durham cattle, Poland China, Berkshire, and O.I.C. hogs, and Southdown sheep. Excellent searchable content for collectors and researchers of Red Wing, Cannon Falls, Frontenac, Lake Pepin, Mississippi River history, Scandinavian-American settlement in southeastern Minnesota, and Goodhue County genealogy. Satisfaction guaranteed or you can send it back!
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