{"product_id":"1916-bureau-county-illinois-standard-atlas-plat-book-princeton-spring-valley-map","title":"1916 Bureau County Illinois Standard Atlas Plat Book Princeton Spring Valley Map","description":"\u003cp\u003eStandard Atlas of Bureau County, Illinois. Atlas and Plat Book of Bureau County, Illinois, Containing Outline Map of the County; Plats of all the Townships with Owners' Names, Cities and Towns, Illinois State Map Showing Automobile Roads, Map of the United States and World.\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton, Illinois: Published by E. K. Mercer; copyright 1916 by The Kenyon Company, Des Moines, Iowa. Folio, approximately 12 x 16 inches. Original maroon pebble-grain cloth boards with darker maroon leather spine and corner tips, gilt-stamped title to front cover. Approximately 80 pages, including a county outline map, color plat maps of all townships (Fairfield, Greenville, Walnut, Gold, Manlius, Bureau, Ohio, LaMoille, Clarion, Mineral, Concord, Wyanet, Princeton, Dover, Berlin, Westfield, Hall, Neponset, Macon, Indiantown, Arispie, Leepertown, Milo, Wheatland, Selby, and others) with individual landowners named, plats of the cities of Princeton (north and south halves), Spring Valley, and the village of Depue, an Illinois state map showing early automobile roads, U.S. and world maps, an index of all U.S. cities and towns over 2,000 population, and period business advertisements with photographs of Princeton and Bureau County residences and commercial buildings. Condition: front board detached at hinge but present; spine cloth worn with leather chipping at head and tail; corners bumped and rubbed with some leather loss; interior generally clean with light toning and occasional edge wear; plat maps bright with strong original color; binding loose throughout. Occasional maps loose. good condition.\u003cbr\u003eA detailed plat atlas of Bureau County in north-central Illinois, published at the height of the early automobile era and documenting every farm and landowner in the county on the eve of America's entry into World War I. The township plats name thousands of individual property owners, making this an essential resource for genealogists tracing families in Princeton, Spring Valley, Sheffield, Buda, Tiskilwa, Wyanet, Walnut, LaMoille, Ohio, Malden, Mineral, Neponset, Manlius, New Bedford, and the surrounding farming communities. The included photographic views of Princeton residences, banks, hardware stores, and poultry houses provide a vivid snapshot of small-town Illinois prosperity in 1916. Bureau County was home to abolitionist Owen Lovejoy and a key Underground Railroad corridor in the antebellum era, and this atlas captures the agricultural landscape his descendants helped shape.\u003cbr\u003eSatisfaction guaranteed or you can send it back!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSatisfaction guaranteed or you can send it back!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"LaCava Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48510189076635,"sku":"EBAY-358516217797","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0663\/7705\/6411\/files\/57_deb2bcec-f44b-4624-a7b7-07cbaeeb0f76.jpg?v=1778113560","url":"https:\/\/lacavararebooks.com\/products\/1916-bureau-county-illinois-standard-atlas-plat-book-princeton-spring-valley-map","provider":"LaCava Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}