16th section land records

[Foster]

I am leasing some section section land in Lowndes county, MS. I have found where an old home place once stood from the mid 1800's, but do not know what it was. Anyone know how I can find the records that date back to that time. The problem has been, that for that era, payment for 16th section has been shown, but not for exact area. Please help

 

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Also, the coins I have found on this site are a 1847 large cent and a 1855 half dollar. Plus a large, large brass skeleton key.

 

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Any help on this?

 

[Tom_in_CA]

For something that far back, you're lucky just to have plat maps that show a structure was there. Muchless info to tell you exactly what it was. There are vast sections of the united states, where such detail, to even show a black dot, is not even there. Yes, some super old assessors maps, plat maps, etc.... show various black dots where structures, were, I'm guessing that's about as good as you're going to get. You're maybe not going to get some complimentary resource that's going to tell you this was a "store" or a "house" or a "barn", or whatever.

I have heard, that the topographic maps though, ...... the field surveyors that went out to do ground reconn's, kept field notes that ........ to this day ..... are available in archives at the USGS. So while the topo map may only show a black "dot", yet the surveyer may have made notes like "abandoned", or "brick house", or "store", or whatever. But what you're talking about predates topo maps, as topo maps only date to the very late 1800's, as the earliest topos (at least that's the oldest I've seen for CA topos).

Congratz on the old coins.