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Geographical, statistical, and historical map of Michigan Territory.

Map shows counties, War of 1812 battle locations, areas of Native American habitation, waterfalls, and "pictured rocks." Includes two columns of text which provide statistics, description, and history of Michigan Territory. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale [ca. 1:1,988,000].
Date: 1822
Creator: Finlayson, J. (James)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Transcript of Letter from Peter Elias Bean to Antonio Elozua, October 22, 1830] (open access)

[Transcript of Letter from Peter Elias Bean to Antonio Elozua, October 22, 1830]

Copy of transcript for a letter from Peter Elias Bean to Antonio Elozua, on October 22, 1830. Bean has discovered that the government is paying Indians to move west of the Mississippi River, and he wonders if the Indians will attempt to retake their lands in Texas.
Date: October 22, 1830
Creator: Bean, Peter Elias
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Detroit, Michigan, Sheet 1].

Map shows early nineteenth century street names, section numbers, lot numbers, lot dimensions, cemeteries, some landowners and existing buildings. This is section two of two. Inset: "Plat of Wm. B. Welles & Cos. subdivision of lots." Cadastral map. Scale [1:960].
Date: 1835
Creator: Farmer, John, 1798-1859
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Detroit, Michigan: Sheet 1]

Map shows early nineteenth century street names, section numbers, lot numbers, lot dimensions, cemeteries, some landowners and existing buildings. Includes references and notes. Cadastral map. Scale [1:2,400].
Date: 1835
Creator: Farmer, John, 1798-1859
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Detroit, Michigan, Sheet 2].

Map shows early nineteenth century street names, section numbers, lot numbers, lot dimensions, cemeteries, some landowners and existing buildings. Includes references and notes. Cadastral map. Scale [1:2,400].
Date: 1835
Creator: Farmer, John, 1798-1859
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Detroit, Michigan, Sheet 2].

Map shows early nineteenth century street names, section numbers, lot numbers, lot dimensions, cemeteries, some landowners and existing buildings. This is section one of two. Includes references and notes. Cadastral map. Scale [1:2,400].
Date: 1835
Creator: Farmer, John, 1798-1859
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map exhibiting the position of the several lines connected with the settlement of the Ohio boundary question.

Map shows disputed boundaries between Michigan and Ohio in the area between Lake Michigan and Lake Erie; also boundaries between Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and Ontario; towns, waterways, and major industries. Includes tables and text. Scale [ca. 1:316,800].
Date: 1835
Creator: Hood, Washington
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of the states of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois with the settled part of Michigan.

Map shows counties, roads, railroads, canals, cities and towns for Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and parts of Michigan and Wisconsin Territory; mining activity for lead region of Illinois and Wisconsin Territory; township grid for lower Michigan. Insets: "Vicinity of Detroit," "Vicinity of Cincinnati," "Falls of Ohio," and "Lead region east of the Mississippi River." Includes explanation and table of steamboat routes. Scale [ca. 1:2,030,000].
Date: 1835
Creator: Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus), 1792-1868
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Ohio boundary no. 1 south bend of Lake Michigan: Map, exhibiting the position occupied in the determination of the latitude of the extreme south bend of Lake Michigan.

Map shows narrow band of land along the southern coast of Lake Michigan near the Grand Calumic River; structures and vegetations, points of survey. Includes references to the position occupied and notes. Scale [1:12,000].
Date: 1835
Creator: Hood, Washington
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Ohio boundary no. 2 : Map exhibiting the positions occupied on the Maumee Bay and river: viz: Turtle Island, the North Cape, and that above Toledo, together with the position of the "east line," in its passage of the Maumee River surveyed under the direction of Capt. Talcott, U.S. Engineers, by Lieuts. Hood & R.E. Lee.

Map shows portion of the Maumee River south of Toledo, Ohio and portion of the North Cape of the Maumee in Maumee Bay in Lake Erie. Relief shown by hachures and land forms. Scale [1:12,000].
Date: 1835
Creator: Irwin, James R., d. 1848.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Survey of the Mouth of Galien River, Michigan

Map shows street grid for early nineteenth century New Buffalo, Michigan the Galien River channel, marshlands where the river meets Lake Michigan, with diagram of possible dock or canal. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Scale [1:2,640].
Date: 1835
Creator: Berrien, John Macpherson, d. 1876
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Land grant to Levi Shumway : Monroe, Mich., 1835 October 6. (open access)

Land grant to Levi Shumway : Monroe, Mich., 1835 October 6.

Land Grant for 40 acres in Monroe, Michigan, granting "the north east quarter of the south west quarter, of section nine, in the township eight south, of range three east, in the District of lands subject to sale at Monroe, Michigan Territory, containing forty acres." This is Certificate 149.
Date: January 6, 1835
Creator: United States. General Land Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

An improved edition of a map of the surveyed parts of the Territory of Michigan.

Map shows early nineteenth century Michigan Territory township grid, counties, roads, swamps, cities, towns, and notable physical features. Lead mines and land plats on indicated in insets. Includes notes relating to War of 1812. Insets: "Map of the Straits of Michillimackinac from actual surveys" [stamped 1844], "Map of Pte. Ste. Ignace," "Map of the most important parts of the lead mine district near the Mississippi River" [stamped 1844], "Map of the private claims at Green Bay from actual surveys," and "Map of Michillimackinac Isle." Scale not given.
Date: 1836
Creator: Farmer, John, 1798-1859
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

The tourist's pocket map of Michigan :exhibiting its internal improvements, roads, distances &c.

Map shows counties, cities and towns, sand hills [dunes], Native American villages, and shoreline along Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. Includes explanation and tables of principal stage routes and steam boat routes. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale [ca. 1:1,774,000].
Date: 1836
Creator: Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus), 1792-1868
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of the states of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois with the settled part of Michigan.

Map shows counties, roads, railroads, canals, cities and towns for Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and parts of Michigan and Wisconsin Territory; mining activity for lead region of Illinois and Wisconsin Territory; township grid for lower Michigan. Insets: "Vicinity of Detroit," "Vicinity of Cincinnati," "Falls of Ohio," and "Lead region east of the Mississippi River." Includes explanation and table of steamboat routes. Scale [ca. 1:2,028,000].
Date: 1838
Creator: Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus), 1792-1868
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of the chief part of the western states and part of Virginia. Engraved to illustrate Mitchell's School and Family Geography.

Map shows counties boundaries, cities and towns, railroads, the National Road, canals, and mining activity in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and parts of Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa, and Virginia. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:3,120,000].
Date: 1839
Creator: Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus), 1792-1868
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of the states of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois with the settled part of Michigan.

Map shows counties, roads, railroads, canals, cities and towns for Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and parts of Michigan and Wisconsin Territory; mining activity for lead region of Illinois and Wisconsin Territory; township grid for lower Michigan. Insets: "Vicinity of Detroit," "Vicinity of Cincinnati," "Falls of Ohio," and "Lead region east of the Mississippi River." Includes explanation and table of steamboat routes. Scale [ca. 1:2,028,000].
Date: 1839
Creator: Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus), 1792-1868
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of the states of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois with the settled part of Michigan.

Map shows counties, roads, railroads, canals, cities and towns for Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and parts of Michigan and Wisconsin Territory; mining activity for lead region of Illinois and Wisconsin Territory; township grid for lower Michigan. Insets: "Vicinity of Detroit," "Vicinity of Cincinnati," "Falls of Ohio," and "Lead region east of the Mississippi River." Includes explanation and table of steamboat routes. Scale [ca. 1:2,028,000].
Date: 1844
Creator: Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus), 1792-1868
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of that part of the mineral lands adjacent to Lake Superior ceded to the United States by the treaty of 1842 with the Chippewas: Comprising that district lying between Chocolate River and Fond du Lac, under the superintendency of Genl. John Stockton, U.S. agent ; projected and drawn under the direction of Lieut. Coll. George Talcott, Ordnance Bureau.

Map shows western half of Lake Superior with mineral claims identified in various areas, particularly the Keweenaw Peninsula. Titled inset: "Camp Gray, October 1st 1814, near Talcott Harbor." Untitled inset: [Lake Superior]. Scale [ca. 1:380,000].
Date: 1845
Creator: Gray, A. B. (Andrew Belcher), 1820-1862
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of that part of the mineral lands adjacent to Lake Superior ceded to the United States by the treaty of 1842 with the Chippewas : Comprising that district lying between Chocolate River and Fond du Lac, under the superintendency of Genl. John Stockton, U.S. agent ; projected and drawn under the direction of Lieut. Coll. George Talcott, Ordnance Bureau

Map shows western half of Lake Superior with mineral claims identified in various areas, particularly the Keweenaw Peninsula. Titled inset: "Camp Gray, October 1st 1814, near Talcott Harbor." Untitled inset: [Lake Superior]. Scale [ca. 1:380,000].
Date: 1845
Creator: Gray, A. B. (Andrew Belcher), 1820-1862
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Sketch of the public surveys in Michigan.

Map shows Michigan township grid, rivers, islands, and bays along the Michigan, Superior, and Huron lakes. Includes "Explanation" of symbols used in township grid. Scale [1:1,140,480].
Date: 1847
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

City of Saint Joseph: Berrien County, Michigan.

Map shows mid-nineteenth century St. Joseph, Michigan street names, block and lot numbers, and the St. Joseph River. Includes references to building locations. Inset: North St. Joseph and St. Joseph. Cadastral map. Scale not given.
Date: [1850..1870]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Sketch of the public surveys in Michigan.

Map shows mid-nineteenth century Michigan township grid and government reserve. Inset: [Isle Royale]. Includes explanation key to symbols. Scale [1:1,140,480].
Date: 1852
Creator: Noble, Charles
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of the Allegheny Valley Rail Road and connections accompanying report February 1854

Map shows railroad routes across Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, and New York. Scale not given.
Date: 1854
Creator: Schuchman, William, b. 1823 or 4.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History