In looking at the Plat maps that come up on Dennis's site, I saw one that has a whole section (Lemon Twp south, sec 29) labeled "Ministerial Section". There are no owner names. Can anyone tell me what a Ministerial Section was? Haven't seen that before. Ann

On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 09:20:23 -0500, Ann Trimmer <ann@trimmer.net> wrote: >In looking at the Plat maps that come up on Dennis's site, I saw one >that has a whole section (Lemon Twp south, sec 29) labeled "Ministerial >Section". There are no owner names. > >Can anyone tell me what a Ministerial Section was? Haven't seen that >before. See... http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~maggie/ohio-lands/ohl5.html They were lands set aside for religious purposes. -- Dennis Kowallek Hanover Twp., Butler Co. kowallek@iglou.com ******************