Joyce, Did you look at my maps page? Those are ALL historic maps, not modern ones. I couldn't possibly find where your house is located. Sorry. Leona ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 4:03 PM Subject: Re: [OHFRANKL] Franklin County Maps Online > > Leona, > If and when you have some time could you possibly find the area on your > maps > that my house is located? > My driveway is in Hamilton Twp and my house, next to my driveway, is in > the > Columbus School district which must be the Marion district. > Thanks, > Joyce > > P.S. Hamilton keeps their streets a lot better than Columbus in this kind > of > weather ! > > > > > > > > > > > > GenealogyBug <[email protected]> wrote: Hi, Everyone! > > A few years ago a friend of my husband's who worked in the county > engineer's > office, knowing my interest in Franklin County history and genealogy, > handed > Dave (hubby) a bundle of eighteen sheets of paper. Each sheet was about > 30 > inches square. Each was a circa 1895 plat map of one of the eighteen > townships in Franklin County. With the exception of city/town lots, each > parcel has the name of the owner and the acreage printed inside the > parcel. > > I wanted to find a way to share this bounty with others, but I don't have > the patience required for some projects. So I put it on my "Honey dew" > list > for Dave's retirement. During the past week he scanned each map in > segments > and then "stitched" them together. The results are, in my slightly biased > opinion, fantastic. He put them in PDF files so that they can be > magnified > to read the names better. Some of the maps are more easily read than > others--remember they are copies of copies of copies. > > One last comment--they are very large files and for those with dial-up > modems they will take a long time to download. Please be patient. > > The plat maps are the last items on my Franklin County ALHN Maps page: > http://www.genealogybug.net/franklin_county/maps.htm > > Enjoy! > Leona > ~ ~ ~ ~ > > > > > > > **************The year's hottest artists on the red carpet at the Grammy > Awards. Go to AOL Music. > (http://music.aol.com/grammys?NCID=aolcmp00300000002565) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message