I really appreciate the Farm Maps and all this chatter surrounding them.   It's good to know there are alternative maps!  For the first time in years, I feel as though I finally have some HOPE - that I am zero-ing in on an illusive ancestor.  This is because, with these maps,  I can now better visualize the route the census taker may have taken.  I've spent the last two days highlighting properties and researching those families, trying to determine who goes with whom.  Of course, I have ruled out quite  a few - but negative answers are also good answers because it narrows my finalists.  I'm crossing my fingers that 1886 is not too late to see heirs still living on the critical properties.  THANKS SO MUCH!     From: "Wvlyle@aol.com" <Wvlyle@aol.com> To: hcgs@rootsweb.com; cn8ff@aol.com; dbkuhl@bellsouth.net Sent: Wednesday, October 3, 2012 7:13 PM Subject: [HCGS] Farm maps; 0-15 and 0-16, Coon's Run, Long Run, Shinnston area The farm/gas maps I have been using for about twenty years and the one  I bought today, show the families living in the areas listed in the subject line  above.  I got these maps at Clarksburg Blue Print Company.  The maps  are titled "Fairmont N.W. 41..Fairmont and Clarksburg N. E.  38..Shinnston".  There were several different farm/gas maps produced by  different gas companies.  I am not familiar with the maps in O-15 and 0-16  and don't know why they don't show family ownerships. The many maps I have are by Hutchinson and McCrary, Marietta, Ohio and are  dated 1911.  The maps I have match the Gen. Survey maps with the same  title, ie: Shinnston and Fairmont, etc.  I also have maps for other  counties, mainly, Taylor and Barbour Counties.  I  have some maps for  Kanawha County but they must be from a different source. I use to pay less than $5.00 for copies of the maps; today, I paid $12.00  for one map.  Dick:  based on our emails last night, the map I bought  today, Shinnston #38 is the map you want for Long Run, Enterprise, Pine Bluff,  Peora, etc. These maps have been very helpful to me when trying to determine exactly  where a family lived, sometimes as long as two hundred years ago.  Of  course, you have to do some courthouse work to put it all together. I found out today that Clarksburg Blue Print Company has moved around the  corner from Milford Street to Duff Street in the Stealey section of  Clarksburg.  Perhaps they moved when they had a fire.  The last time I  looked, they do have an Internet website. Lyle Corder In a message dated 10/2/2012 00:31:33 Eastern Daylight Time, cn8ff@aol.com  writes: Coon's  Run is on O-16 Coon's Run is the road between Saltwell just outside of  Shinnston on SR131 and runs to Adamsville. I notice there are no farm names  on that portion of the map ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to HCGS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message