1907 platt map of Illinois,, Shows all Counties in Ill.

[les]

Hi: In Jackson County Illinois, Carbondale Ill. 1907 Platt Book ,,Travels back & forth between John A. Logan College Archives,,,& S.I.U. College,, Suppose to be the only Copy of it ,drawn by George olgle,They won't let anyone handle the platt Book ,,But Will Copy Pages from it for anyone,, It shows old roads ,houses,has the names of who owned properties at the time, how many acres they owned etc. Interesting research maps for illinois in that time period for detecting coins,,cache hunting etc.,I found a bunch of old house sites using this platt book, went to one location & Found a very old cistern filled with Old Bottles & Stuff,But covered it back up & Left,,National forest land!,,Les

[Lowbatts]

Nice find!

If you hit some of the old libraries in those rural towns there will sometime be old plat books in their reference section for their county and occasionally one of the major works like that as well.