RESEARCHING HISTORY (SANBORN MAPS)

[jog]

The other day i was talking to a friend .We started talking about metal detecting .He started rambling on about some of places he thought would be good to detect.One of these places was an old fur trading village were the Indians spent a lot of time next to the river with the white man.There has been a lot of Indian artifacts found,there is still an old concrete bank vault grown over in the woods.I believe that there might still be an old original house near there.Does any body know if the sanborn maps would be of any help on this.(Northwest Oregon)

 

[tulare tokens]

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[Tom_in_CA]

Tulare is right: Unless it was in an old-town district, the sanborn maps won't do you any good. They only covered the zones inside city limits of the old days. They would arbitrarily cut off even though homes and streets extended out further from old-town districts.

As for your NW indian trading spot, there are connections between the indian trade goods that made their way up there, to the indian trade goods found in CA. Email me direct and I'll connect you with some resources and OR/WA contacts that may be of interest to you: ttanner777@aol.com

 

[Neil in West Jersey]

try loc.gov. American Memories Map collection

 

[dahut]

Maps from that period are haphazard, at best. You wont get a foot by foot plat breakdown of an Indian/Fur trading village, I'll wager. Best thing might be to narrow down the correct river bank and head on out there, on foot.

 

[jog]

There were some buildings such as a bank and post office i believe. If anybody wants to check it out, go to Lewis and Clark's Columbia River-Aldrich Point , Oregon. Then click on Knappa And Knappa Slough,Oregon . This was the beginning of the town which is there now. If nothing else might be a good place to MD. Tom in CA i will e- mail you when i have more time THANKS.