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| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Published a year after Wisconsin entered statehood, this map shows the counties and towns in existence at the time - mainly in southern/southeastern Wiscon... |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Map outlines mid and southern Wisconsin county boundaries in blue, and city/town lines are provided. Other marks include mines, plank roads, and railroads. |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | This map shows the entire state and part of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. It depicts creeks, rivers, lakes, railroads completed, railroads in progress, ... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | This map shows the township survey grid and identifies counties, named towns, rivers, lakes, railroads, plank roads, mines, and the Menomonee Reservation. ... |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | This map depicts the township survey grid in Wisconsin, Michigan, northern Illinois, eastern Iowa, and southeastern Minnesota. Counties, named towns, citie... |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | This map shows the township survey grid and identifies counties, named towns, cities and villages, rivers, lakes, and railroads. Boundaries are shown in bl... |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | This map, which includes eastern Iowa and northern Illinois but omits the northern and northwestern tiers of counties in Wisconsin, shows the township surv... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | This map of the entire state of Wisconsin depicts the township survey grid and identifies counties, named towns, cities and villages, rivers, lakes, railro... |
| Date: | 1832 |
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| Description: | A hand-drawn map showing the survey of Township number 4, Range number 5, West Fourth Principal Meridian, which is parts of the present day towns of Glen H... |
| Date: | 1836 |
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| Description: | An ink on paper, hand-drawn map of the survey of the (Township No. 8, Range No. 16 East of the 4 Meridian) Town of Ixonia, Jefferson County, Wisconsin incl... |
| Date: | 1836 |
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| Description: | This manuscript shows the 1835 survey of the road corresponding approximately to a portion of County Trunk A in the Town of Scott, Brown County, Wisconsin.... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | This map shows lots and blocks, additions and subdivisions, and large-scale landownership. The map is oriented with north to the upper right. The map is fr... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Outdoor view of a U.S. Army Engineer topographer wearing skis while using a tripod stand to write. The engineer is standing next to a barbed wire obstacle ... |
| Date: | 09 20 1836 |
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| Description: | This map is ink and watercolor on paper and is an unnamed plat. Green Bay is labeled and the plat is labeled "Section 22." One road is labeled "Road to Nav... |
| Date: | 02 02 1960 |
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| Description: | The Madison Redevelopment Authority joined in the city's program of locating and permanently marking land survey corners in the Madison area. Here they mar... |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | Plat map of the village of Dunbarton, received by the Lafayette County Register's Office on September 22, 1892. Certification by the surveyor, Albert Pool,... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A class of engineering students practicing surveying in front of Science Hall, located on the University of Wisconsin (Madison) campus. Eleven engineering ... |
| Date: | 1836 |
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| Description: | This map is ink and watercolor on paper and shows a plat of a paper city (a city planned but never built). Some streets and the Pekatolica River are labele... |
| Date: | 11 1836 |
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| Description: | This map is pen-and-ink on paper and is a plat of a paper city on the Wisconsin River, in what is now the Town of Dekorra. The map shows lot and block numb... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | This map is ink on tracing cloth and shows lot and block numbers and dimensions, streets, the high school park, and survey monuments. The map is oriented ... |
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