1897 Plat Book and Atlas of Saint Croix County, Wisconsin

Plat Book of Saint Croix County, Wisconsin, compiled from official records and actual surveys and published by Pinkney & Brown in 1897 — reproduced here in full color from the David Rumsey Map Collection copy, complete: every township plate, every village and city plat, the outline map of the county, the state and national maps, the government survey diagrams, the road laws, and the full patrons' directory.

All twenty-one townships are here, each drawn section by section with the name of every landowner lettered across their acreage, together with the roads, school houses, churches, cemeteries and mills of 1897: Baldwin, Cady, Cylon, Eau Galle, Emerald, Erin, Forest, Glenwood, Hammond, Hudson, Kinnickinnic, Pleasant Valley, Richmond, Rush River, Saint Joseph, Somerset, Springfield, Stanton, Star Prairie, Troy and Warren.

The city and village plats show lots and owners in Hudson, mapped across two large pages on the St. Croix bluffs opposite Minnesota, and in New Richmond, Glenwood, Somerset, Baldwin, Hammond, Roberts, Woodville, Star Prairie, Deer Park, Wilson, Boardman, Hersey, Houlton, Huntington, Jewett Mills, New Centreville and New Saratoga Springs — with North Hudson, Whaley's Addition and the North End platted separately.

New Richmond appears here rebuilt: the tornado of June 1899 was still two years off, and this is the town as it stood before it was destroyed.

The volume closes with the patrons' directory, naming the county residents who paid to have their farms recorded — often the fastest route from a surname to a section number — along with the road laws of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Missouri, printed for a county that did business on both sides of the river.

Because a plat book records who owned what, rather than who lived where, it answers a question no census can. For anyone tracing a Saint Croix County family, this is an essential reference for genealogists, house historians, and collectors of Wisconsin history.

54 pages. 8.5" x 11". Full color. Paperback.

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