Locating original landowners in maps has never been an easy task-until now. This volume in the Family Maps series contains newly created maps of original landowners (patent maps) in what is now Limestone County, Alabama, gleaned from the indexes of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. But it offers much more than that. For each township in the county, there are two additional maps accompanying the patent map: a road map and a map showing waterways, railroads, and both modern and many historical city-centers and cemeteries. Included are indexes to help you locate what you are looking for, whether you know a person's name, a last name, a place-name, or a cemetery. The combination of maps and indexes are designed to aid researchers of American history or genealogy to explore frontier neighborhoods, examine family migrations, locate hard-to-find cemeteries and towns, as well as locate land based on legal descriptions found in old documents or deeds. The patent-maps are essentially plat maps but instead of depicting owners for a particular year, these maps show original landowners, no matter when the transfer from the federal government was completed. Dates of patents typically begin near the time of statehood and run into the early 1900s. 238 pages with 68 total maps What's Mapped in this book (that you'll not likely find elsewhere) . . . 2771 Parcels of Land (with original landowner names and patent-dates labeled in the relevant map) 164 Cemeteries plus . . . Roads, and existing Rivers, Creeks, Streams, Railroads, and Small-towns (including some historical), etc. What YEARS are these maps for? Here are the counts for parcels of land mapped, by the decade in which the corresponding land patents were issued: DecadeParcel-count 1820s54 1830s512 1840s332 1850s608 1860s76 1870s25 1880s245 1890s318 1900s144 1910s22 1920s431 1950s1 What Cities and Towns are in Limestone County, Alabama (and in this book)? Alabama Fork, Ardmore, Athens, Beechwood Acres, Belle Mina, Bethel, Beulah Land, Blackburn, Blue Springs Park, Bonneville, Bonnie Doone, Brookwood Forest, Burgreen Gin, Cairo, Capshaw, Carey, Cartwright, Cedar Grove, Cedar Hill, Center Hill, Cherry Grove, Copeland, Country Club Acres, Coxey, Cross Key, Decatur Junction, Dogwood, East Hampton, East Limestone, Elk Estates, Elkmont, Fairmount, Fairview, French Mill, Gipsy, Good Springs, Gourdsville, Greenbrier, Hannah, Harris Station, Hays Mill, Holland Gin, Irvington, Jones Crossroads, Lakewood, Lawngate, Lawson,